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/
I personally hate wasting food because I love to eat. However, my mom is like a personification of food wasting. She does grocery shopping often and buys many, but she doesn’t eat or use them to cook something because basically she doesn’t cook. This is the most ridiculous situation in the whole world and I ask her to stop that stupid consumption habit, but she never learns. I’m not just complaining, but giving an example of food waste from families. Some people are just terribly bad at consuming and they don't even realize that it is a bad thing. We should make them realize it in order to reduce food waste from families.
返信削除I am very surprised of the big number of food wastes in Japan. I think Japanese people worries too much about the best-before date. It might be best to eat it before that date to have it delicious but its not like we will die if we eat it the next day. There is lot of kids who can't eat much because of their poor living environment. I feel sad to throw away tons of food when I am working part time because if those food were given to the poors, some might be happy!
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