Our current thinking

Our current thinking is still focused on food waste is not formally informed to citizens.

And that wasting food is not good thing of course, but it is also a wrong thing that we are not trying to inform this reality to the people in this world that are actually wasting food.

After our presentation in class, it made us reconsider that we need to know more about this problem deeply and find out a way to work this out.

Answering to my question 2

Who is wasting all of these food and why?

Resteraunts, fast food resteraunts, families, even at school cafeteria wastes food.

It is a hard thing to prevent the food waste from thes facilities.


According to the website,
Food is thrown away by producers, retailers, but above all by end consumers. It is a vicious circle that must be broken, starting by properly planning what we put in our cupboards. The European Union as a whole throws away about 90 million tons of food, at an average of about 180 kilos per person. “This waste comes from the whole food chain, from agricultural production to storage, processing, distribution, management and end consumption of food”, explains Soledad Blanco, the former Director of Sustainable Resource Management at the European Commission’s Environment DG. “Wasting food is economically damaging, environmentally wrong and morally unacceptable, especially when considering the quantity of resources required to produce this amount of food”. By tackling waste, we could guarantee up to three fifths of the increased demand required to feed the world’s population, which will reach over 9 billion people by 2050.








https://www.barillacfn.com/en/magazine/food-and-sustainability/who-wastes-the-most-1/

Key facts on food loss and waste you should know! (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2017, from http://www.fao.org/save-food/resources/keyfindings/en/

Answer to my question

Today, I'd like to answer these 4 questions.

2 What is merit of food bank for company?
3 What is merit of food bank for reciever?
4 What is merit of food bank for government?
7 What is demerit of food bank?

Answer to 2, For company, the merits are reduction of discard cost and environmental burden, and implementation of the social welfare activity.
According to Scond harvest japan, the average disposal cost is about 100 per kilogram, and by donating rather than dumping, companies can reduce their disposal costs.
Donating food is a kind of Corporate Social Responsibility. To do so, it means, a valuable impact on the community. And, According to LIFE AGAIN, to join food bank, if they don't waste food, they don't emit CO2、then it help global warming prevention.  This is a reduction of environmental burden.
So,  the answers are reduction of discaed cost and environmental burden and, implementation of the social welfare activity.

Answer to 3, For reciever, thanks to food bank, they can save their food cost. According to Second harvest japan, One mother and child support facility could reduce its food cost （average cost of one meal without food donation is ￥173.2、then, with food donation is ￥105.8）
Additionaly, the article of Yonezawa nippo says that reciever can realize links with the community.
So,  the answers are save food cost, and feeling links with the community.

Answer to 4, For government, they can reduce loss food, and they can do regional vitalization.
The difference between best before day and expiration date is easy to misunderstand for us.
They promote interplonation about this defference, and how to reserve food. This action also leads to reduction of food loss.
Also it is important for local communities to support the elderly. According to Second harvest japan, By encouraging citizens to volunteer, and by making use of food banks to support both the elderly and those in need, local governments can work with NPOs  to create a “food safety net” for their community.
Moreover, government can reduce their financial burden. Let me quote the web site of Food bank kagosima, "Using donated food to support welfare recipients can help reduce welfare budgets and enrich the nation as a whole."
So, the answers are they can reduce loss food, and they can do regional vitalization.

Answer to 7, the demerit is regional differences.
Food bank in big city tend to recieve more donation than food bank in rural area, this is a problem of food bank.


     HARVEST（セカンドハーベスト・ジャパン）, S. (n.d.). 活動内容・実績 | SECOND HARVEST（セカンドハーベスト・ジャパン）. Retrieved June 29, 2017, from http://2hj.org/activity/

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Good website

I think this is a good website.
http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/
〈Food and agriculture organization of the united nations〉

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of uneted nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. They serve both developing and developed country.
This organization also helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all.

In their official website, they upload their original movie, which introduce what they are, and also introduce their acivity clearly. They show what they did until now with many pictures.

Moreovere, reasons why I thought this cite was good are,
1 It has multi lingual translation
2 Related to Unated Nations(It means this is very reliable)
3 It has many links to SNS(such as facebook, twitter)

Thanks to multi lingual translation tool, people all over the world can understand, and reliability is important factor for us to get knowlde about this kind of issue.
SNS is very useful, so we can get imformation easily.


FAO.org. (n.d.). Retrieved June 22, 2017, from http://www.fao.org/home/en/

Answering to one of my research questions

What is food waste?

Food waste is food that is discarded or lost uneaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, retailing and consumption.

Generally, food loss or food waste is food that is discarded or uneaten. However, precise definitions are contentious, often defined on a situational basis Professional bodies, including international organizations, state governments and secretariats may use their own definitions.


Definitions of food waste vary, among other things, in what food waste consists of, how it is produced, and where or what it is discarded from or generated by. Definitions also vary because certain groups do not consider food waste to be a waste material, due to its applications. Some definitions of what food waste consists of are based on other waste definitions and which materials do not meet their definitions



Food waste. (2017, June 21). Retrieved June 29, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste#United_Nations

Food Loss and Food Waste. (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2017, from http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/

Bad website

The website I showed last week, is the website of the nongovernmental groups official website. It is shown very nice and neat and is capable of discovering information about group Hunger Free World.

However, it is quite uneasy to get a full information.
There is also Japan`s Hunger Free World official website. Comparing this websites, it is quite obvious which one is easier for us to get information on.

Perspective 4

Hunger Free World is an nongovernmental international organization dedicated to creating a world free of hunger. HFW is based in Japan and is currently operating in four countries overseas including Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Uganda.

They carry out community development together with the people such as improving nutritional conditions and access to education in order to free these areas from hunger.

Therefore, HFW is focusing on people to know more about the hunger issue that is happening right now in this world. They use a game called "Ending Hunger Game" one of their awareness raising tools.

Also they have "Unused postcard redemption campaign" that initially encourages people to help recycle valuable resources and then serves as a way to make people aware that they can contribute to reducing world hunger.


(n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2017, from http://www.hungerfree.net/english/

15 questions (2)

1. What is food waste?


2. Who is wasting all this food and why?


3. How does the food waste affect companies?


4. How would food waste problem affect the environment??


5. What is the most main problem hidden in food waste issue?


6. Which country is working hard facing the food waste problem the most?


7. How big is the problem in US?

8. How big is the problem in Japan?


9. Is there companies, restaurants having any donation using the unsold foods?


10. How much food is getting wasted in one day per family?


11. How much food(leftovers) is getting wasted in one day per family?


12. How is food recycled?


13. What can we do in my daily life to limit food waste?


14. Is it possible for us to vanish this problem from this world and why?


15. What is bad of wasting foods?

15 questions

These are questions related to this topic. And these help you to understand this issue easily.
I would like to answer these all questions on this blog.


1 What can we do to reduce food loss?
2 What is merit of food bank for company?
3 What is merit of food bank for reciever?
4 What is merit of food bank for government?
5 How does food bank work?
6 Are there laws about food waste?
7 What is demerit of food bank?
8 When did the food bank activity start?
9 Which country does most emitt food waste?
10 How much does japan waste food?
11 What is the aim of food bank?
12 What kind of cunpany does emitt food waste?
13 How many organazation related to food waste are there in the world?
14 What does farmer think about food waste?
15 How does producer feel about food waste?

Perspective 2 Tokyo government.

Second perspective is Tokyo government.

Tokyo is conducting many activity to encourage reduction of food loos, ant they want us to know MOTTAINAI situation.

For example,

1, Food bank matching seminar

2, Tabekirigenman Project

This is amount of food loss in tokyo.

As you can see, wasted from family.

To reduce these food, tokyo made a plan baced on food recycle law.

Food recycle law went into effect in 2001, and its aim is to use food loss effectivly.

Targets of this law is factories related to food, hotel, supermarket, restaurant company.

It purpose was to reduce 20% of annual emissions by 2006. But they couldnt accieve it, then they continue trying.

食品廃棄物・食品ロス対策. (n.d.). Retrieved June 21, 2017, from http://www.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/resource/recycle/food_waste/



Perspective 3

Starbucks is now donating unsold food in Chicago.

Ever wonder what happens to all those mini scones, sandwiches, and cookies at the end of the day at the Starbucks?

Until recently, the answer would have been "they got tossed away", but thanks to the partnership between Starbucks and Greater Chicago Food Depository, it changed.

There`s over 200 Starbucks locations in Chicago. But first they`re starting at 118 and planning to scale it to all stores. That means something like 2000-30000 pounds of fresh food a day being distributed directly to shelters.

But this isn`t an east feat. If we pick up food and taking it directly to partner agencies, they have to be sure it`s time and temperature controlled.

In addition to providing leftovers, perfectly delicious food to their three partner shelters, because much of the food is packaged by Starbucks already, it allowed recipients to take meals with them to eat outside of the shelter.

So, The Food Depository has added extra vans, drivers and hours of work.


Anthony Todd in Food on May 18, 2017 10:24 am. (n.d.). Starbucks Is Now Donating Unsold Food To The Greater Chicago Food Depository. Retrieved June 28, 2017, from http://chicagoist.com/2017/05/18/starbucks_has_begun_donating_all_wa.php

Perspective 1 Second harvest japan

First perspective is second harvest japan. 

This is  food bank first in japan. They receive food loss which we can still eat from company, farmer, personal, and so on, then give them to child care facilities, shelter for victim of DV, and homeless people.   

The name of “second harvest” comes from to harvest from a farm that is already harvested again.

Then, do you know  food bank?

Food bank  is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough food to avoid hunger. Food bank has many merit for receiver, company, government.

For receiver, 

 1 Save food cost.

       2 They experience pleasure about food.

       3 They get feeling of satisfaction of mind and body.

For company,

1 Reduction of discard cost and environmental burden

 2 Implementation of the social welfare activity  

For government,

1 Reduction of loss food

 2 Reduction of financial burden

 3 Regional vitalization

Their activity is 

1.Harvest kitchen(炊き出し)

2.Harvest pantry

3.Food bank action

4. Advocacy & Development

Their goal is  Our goal is to succeed food bank network in japan, To construct food safety network

,To reinforce food life line.

HARVEST（セカンドハーベスト・ジャパン）, S. (n.d.). SECOND HARVEST（セカンドハーベスト・ジャパン）. Retrieved June 21, 2017, from http://2hj.org/

what is food waste??

Hello. Welcome to our page. 

Our aim is to inform the serious issue considering the food wasting problem that the world has through our blog.

Let't start from the beginng. Do you know what food waste is? Food waste or food loss is food that is discarded or lost uneaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, retailing and consumption.

Now, you know what the food waste is, let`s check the food waste reality of Japan.

Every day, Japanese waste a ginormous amount of food. Approximately 28 million tons of food is wasted in Japan per year, including 642 thousand tons of leftovers, expired eatables, and food losses. Convert into one person, 1~2 rice ball gets wasted everyday, which is pretty astonishing. 

But actually, all about half of the food loss is wasted from the individual households.

Have you ever experienced the moment when you trash food even though you knew that was a MOTTAINAI thing to do?