More than half of our food ends up in the trash. Most already on its way from field to table, before we ever reached consumers. Every second lettuce, potato, and every second of every five bread. The extent of the waste is less clear. Eating well will throw away no one - "because others have nothing to eat," say the young. And the elders still remember the hunger in the war: "We were grateful for every piece of bread." But we all do with the great Ex und Hopp! The reality in our garbage cans.
The filmmaker Valentin Thurn has tracked the reality in our garbage cans. In the waste containers provided by hypermarkets, supermarkets and those outside our front door. They include mass impeccable food, some still sealed, is often not even the best before date expired. Over ten million tons of food are thrown away each year in Germany alone. And there are more and more!
Why do we throw away so much? In the search for explanations talks with supermarket Valentin Thurn-sellers and managers, bakers, wholesale market inspectors, ministers, psychologists, farmers and EU bureaucrats.
What he finds is a system which we all participate in: Supermarkets offer throughout the entire product range. Until late in the evening the bread must be fresh on the shelves, in every season, there are strawberries. And everything must look perfect: A withered lettuce leaf, a crack in the potato or a dent in the apple, and immediately the goods are sorted out. Yogurt cup just two days before the expiration date.
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