Fighting Food Waste with Max La Manna
Get Your Glow Back
Madeleine Shaw
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Today I am joined by zero waste chef and environmental activist Max La Manna to talk all things food waste. Max is such a positive and passionate person who is making a real difference through his instagram and new book, inspiring so many of us to seek a more sustainable life. Max shared some really amazing tips for how to reduce food waste, how he found his passion and how we can make long term positive change. I hope you love listening to this episode, for the show notes visit madeleineshaw.com/episode36
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe Out Podcast. I'm joined today by Zero Waste Chef and author of More Plants, Less Waste, Max LaManna. |
| 0:12.4 | We spoke all about why reducing food waste is so important the measures we can take to start using our leftovers and making the most of produce and all about his journey to zero waste. |
| 0:25.1 | Max is such a positive person and a passionate person and I loved chatting to him for this episode and I'm so excited to share it with you. |
| 0:33.2 | I hope you love listening to this episode as much as I loved recording it for you. |
| 0:37.1 | So let's bring on |
| 0:37.9 | the wonderful, the gorgeous Max. Welcome Max for the podcast. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:45.9 | It's very exciting to have you here. And it's an exciting topic that we're going to be talking |
| 0:50.4 | about, which is food waste. And it's something that I think we're becoming more aware of. We're trying to reduce. And you are definitely the man to talk to about. Thank you. |
| 1:00.5 | A lot of people will know you by following you on social media that you are zero waste and really |
| 1:05.1 | championing more sustainable lifestyle. Has that always been the case? Were you brought up that way? |
| 1:11.8 | Or is it something that you've kind of evolved to over time? Oh yeah. Of course evolved over time. I'm still learning. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm still wasteful. Me just being here right now, I'm wasteful. I can go into detail later. |
| 1:23.2 | But yeah, it hasn't always been this way. And I think it's just been a slow progression over |
| 1:28.4 | time learning more and more about sustainability, learning about how I can be more resourceful |
| 1:33.1 | and how can I make use of the things I already have and just being a little bit more |
| 1:39.2 | conscious and mindful of the things I already have in my life. And was it one moment? Was it |
| 1:43.8 | someone telling you |
| 1:44.8 | something, something you saw? What kind of made you go, I've got to make a change? I think the triggering |
| 1:50.7 | moment was when I was living in Sydney, Australia. You lived there, didn't you? We talked about this. |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah. Yeah, so we were in Sydney, or we weren't, but I was there. And I remember walking on the beach. It was |
| 2:02.4 | Bondi, and I remember seeing people pick up rubbish on the beach. And I'm thinking, wow, |
| 2:07.7 | I've never seen a beach cleanup before. Where I'm from Connecticut, there really isn't a beach. |
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