 Hi everyone, my name is Matt Holmwood and today I'd like to talk to you about dumpster diving and this right here, the global food waste fiasco Did you know that between a third and a half of all food produced on this planet goes to waste every single year? When I first heard this statistic a few years ago, I just couldn't believe it. I mean a third, a half I mean that is just crazy That's 3.3 trillion pounds of food or 1.5 trillion kilograms of food I mean it's astounding and it's a true reminder the global industrial food system is out of control And so that's why I started my project called an urban harvester to reveal supermarkets dirty secrets Every single day for the year of 2019. I would visit my three local supermarket dumpsters See what I could find harvest that bring the harvest home Lay it out in a photograph Share that photo on Instagram and that's how these 62 organic plant mills have ended up right here on my dinner table in the heart of Denmark's capital Copenhagen, but let's retrace the journey of how these mills got into my apartment in the first place You can see what I got up to last year. Come follow me. Let's go So I'm gonna go dumps diving by bicycle because Copenhagen is one of those European cities that seriously densely built Which means that everyone Cycles almost everywhere all the time. And so what that means for me and my supermarket mission is that there are a lot of small supermarkets to choose from it and that means a lot of dumps at diving possibilities. So we go Normally cycle when it's a harvest this big and especially in the back The goals of this project is to bring all this supermarket food waste to life And I know what you're thinking you're thinking well, this is probably why not these 62 organic plant mills are not a one-off Look at this harvest from just a few days ago 42 tomato paste and the thing is they're absolutely perfect You know just few of these straight from Italy and Southern Europe and when you think about the food the metal plastic the fossil fuels It's crazy And the thing is now we're gonna check out some of my harvest from last year And I think the biggest the most memorable one was when I got 157 packs of bacon at 16 kilos 35 pounds of pig meat. It was just like in my lounge I worked out that that was bacon from five pigs were and that was truly Remarkable, I've had sausages. I've had so much meat in here. I've had bananas fruit Vegetables you name it. It's been in here and it's all come from my three supermarket local dumpsters So here's the question is Copenhagen unique But from it I got introduced to the world of dumps surviving three years ago by my good friend Rock when I cycled across America with him and 30 other people doing the Green Riders trip And I vividly remember taking that first dive in New Jersey We've got gallons and gallons of orange juice pounds and pounds of almonds I just couldn't believe it and during that trip is when the scale of this problem truly set it So if all this food waste from supermarkets is happening right here in Copenhagen one of the world's most sustainable cities Just imagine what's happening in the rest of the world In 2019 the United Nations estimated that 690 million people suffered from hunger at one stage or another Three billion people can't afford nutritious food on a daily Meanwhile supermarkets in the West are dumping out perfectly edible food on mass This is just completely crazy 600 million kilos of food in Denmark is dumped out by supermarkets every single year in this country alone So what can we as consumers do about this monumental issue? Well, there are a few options at our disposal. I mean the thing is when it comes to supermarkets There are many other businesses that sell food and perhaps they're more ethical you can go to zero waste food shops You can try and go to local farmers markets You can sign up to community supported agricultural schemes where consumers are linked up to producers You can go foraging you can go dumpster diving And so if you're keen to support me on this quest Please consider following my page on Instagram handles and urban harvester and together We can put more pressure on governments to end this supermarket food waste once and for all Thank you very much for watching this video, and I wish you a good rest of your day