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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story poster
Directed by
Grant Baldwin
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
G
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A couple decides to eat only discarded food for six months. They discover how much perfectly good food is thrown away.

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What happens

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Grant Baldwin and released in 2014. The film centres on Baldwin and his partner, producer Jenny Rustemeyer, as they embark on a plan to spend six months living only off discarded food, ultimately learning that up to 40 per cent of all food in North America ends up in the garbage as waste despite being unspoiled and perfectly edible. The film premiered at the 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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