Bin Appetit

"Bin Appetit" is an 11 minute documentary that follows a group of adults who choose to eat from the bins of Sydney in a protest against waste.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bin
• Appetit

[yesiamanalien]

I worked in a produce dept in the past and I will say there is a lot of waste. If it isn't pretty people wont usually buy it and so it gets discounted. If people still dont buy it it gets thrown away. Where I worked then every day I would be forced by company policy to throw away sometimes up to 20-30 pounds of produce that just wasn't all that pretty. Yea some of it was indeed bad but there was some that were perfectly fine but just not pretty.

[JeniaRatcliffe]

It's interesting to get the perspective from a supermarket worker! It would have been good to get somebody like you to appear in the doco! :-)

[JeniaRatcliffe]

It depends how you think about it. Once you see how much waste there is, you quickly forget about the "ick" factor.

[bruintrackrunna]

What part of sydney is this in? I am from America and just moved to NEwtown

[JeniaRatcliffe]

Hi there, yes it was! We simply rocked up with the camera and started filming. The characters in the doco were in the know however, as they were regular dumpster divers. It seems that a little perseverance can go a long way.

[TheSeptemberRose]

Very interesting! I've noticed that over the years companies are getting more and more protective of their garbage! They lock up their garbage bins or put barbed wire fences around them! It's pretty funny isn't it? We're onto the secret that a lot of consumer goods ARE garbage!!! ;)

[JeniaRatcliffe]

Yeh, it's quite weird when you think about it. The shop owner in the video felt personally violated when someone tried to take food out her rubbish bin. I guess they don't want people to know that you don't have to go to the counter to get food, but you can visit the bins instead! :-)

[jaydedrag0n]

I don't understand what the obsession is to think that things you have THROWN AWAY (you have given up ownership of the item.. you've decided you don't want it anymore) is yours to say someone is stealing it! YOU THREW IT AWAY, get the fuck over yourselves, once it hits that bin.. it is now up for anyone who wants it.. you have RELINQUISHED OWNERSHIP of it

[steven8hamilton]

I did this all the time when I was skint and living in London

me and my mates managed to get 5 fillet steaks, 2 bumper backs of maltesers, porridge, 20 cans of beer, chocolate ecclairs and fresh strawberrys one night

[watery99]

What the hell did she make in the muffin tin? It looks really tasty.

[taikarmi]

@taikarmi And i say "fresh" because in alot of cases the food has actually been stored in a cool room for months before it actually ends up on the shelfs!

[taikarmi]

About 40% of the food produced in australia goes to waste! wow that is a wild statistic. I also worked in a supermarket in the "fresh" produce section on the north coast and found it not only alarming but disgraceful the amount of food that went to waste and to top it off they used to pour all the blood from the butcher department over the lot so even if you got through the padlock everything was covered in filth! I have scince found some bins that are very consistant and never go hungry!!

[McBird182]

I don't think it's right to assume the public wont buy produce if it isn't pretty. I think we all look at a tray of fruit and pick up the 'best' looking peices. That's not to say that if the one we chose was not there we wouldn't pick up the next best one. If all supermarkets scrapped their pickness about aesthetics the public would just get used to buying imperfect produce. Also that shop owner is an idiot, those things in the bin are not your property anymore! You threw them away!

[hugobpontes]

This is really disgusting, but its correct to do it :P I kinda support