over 854 million people go hungry, of which 820 are undernourished, 1 billion live below or on 1$/day - World population aprox. 1 billion. Now with all the wastages in packaging especially, jams, yoghurts, and virtuall ALL food packaking (with the exeption of bread) why can't someone come up with an idea for a package that ensure minimum wastage of food. Or all we plain evil? Wastages in industrialized countries is higher than all food consumption in Africa plus a handful countries. Any ideas of recycling waste food into something (energy of sorts) and also of ensuring optimized dispensing of fluids and jellies.
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Food left in packages is only the tip of the iceberg. Thousands of tons of food is wasted daily in the US because of food being left uneaten on plates and buffet lines. Also, tons of fresh produce is thrown out by supermarkets simply because it didn't sell soon enough and started to look bad. If all the food thrown out by supermarkets and restaurants was saved, it could feed all the starving people in the world.
The problem is, there isn't a world food shortage anyway. Most of the starving people in the world live in countries that have enough food to feed them. The people don't get fed because they don't have the money to buy the food and nobody is willing to give it away free.
A noble thought but unpractical.
The cost of the product is not as much as their packaging, handling and transportation.
1. And nobody is going to it free
2. You need a arny of people to collect, repack, palletize, transport and distribute, all free of cost.
3. As Dwane said, most of the countries either have enough food or have the capability to produce. The problem is MONEY. Not availability of food.
4. Even if you think of millions of poor nad homeless people in your own city or state or country for that sake. Do you think the concerned health rules will allow this food to be consumed? A quality control job to sort it out is again a challanging job.
5. Even if you tell the poor to gather infornt of restaurants and hotels or shops to collect their food themselves, Do you think the politicians and police will allow them to do so? Specially developed countries and countries with security problems?
Yes it is possible to feed the local poor people, only if the throwers bother to deliver their food themselves to the nearby sheltering places and many of them are already doing it.
Distributing unconsumed food from developed areas is mostly undoable. It is only doable within cities and such, ad at that, for health concertns, only as it leaves the kitchen. Uneaten food on ones plate is trash, although compostable.
FWIW, in undelveloped nations, packaged food really isn't used, at least by the pooor.