A book should be done photographing how much food is thrown away in one bag of garbage. The authors would sort out the trash, and observe how much and what type of food was thrown away. The authors would then buy fresh versions of the food and photograph it one picture. The authors would sample the trash bags of various settings, such as a fast-food restaurant, a mall, a gourment restaurant, a low-income house, a middle-income house and a high-income house.
The book would be similar to Hungry Planet: What The World Eats by Faith D'Alusio and Peter Menzel. In Hungry Planet, the authors would take a picture of a family and all the food they ate in one week. There were pictures taken of families from all around the world. Samples of Hungry Planet can be seen here http://www.menzelphoto.com/hungryplanet/index2.html
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I believe the problem is the discarding of the packaging, plastic, styrofoam,etc, that the food comes in. Food is getting too expensive to waste, so that part will solve itself. Ditto for the packaging.
End hunger in America!Grocers and other food businesses throw out millions of pounds of edible food every week-due to some stupid laws. Why not change those laws so that that food can be donated to food banks-even offer a tax break to those businesses?
I agree with Nivek's comment above. Perhaps the way to handle this would be to allow grocers and restaurants to sell their surplus to existing chains of "salvage grocers." (There's a chain in Seattle called Grocery Outlet.) These chains sell food that's near (or past?) its sell-by date. If these chains were required to post "Eat at your own risk" signs, then the legal beagles could back off with their protection laws and lawsuits.
The problem as always in North America is "liability". What if the food you gave away creates some health problem to the recipient? This kind of assumptions and scenarios are killing common sense. How much do airlines waste? Air Canada "sells" food in their flights, but all that is not sold is discarded. Untouched fresh food thrown away and not given to people in need, just because of stupid liability.... Come on, will you be sued by a hungry guy if he gets sick? Come on, people!