Eating Only Garbage For 72 Hours...Here's Why - YouTube

it is 11 p.m i am definitely trespassing and i'm  about to start surviving on nothing but food waste  

for the next three days all right let me tell  you a story a few years ago i used to work at  

a supermarket and at the end of every day  we would throw a disturbingly large amount  

of perfectly good food in the bin think loads of  bread punnets of eggs and lots and lots of fresh  

fruits and vegetables yet australia and countries  worldwide are in a horrific food waste crisis with  

billions of tons of food being wasted every year  and more people suffering from hunger than ever  

before and even with donation initiatives food  keeps getting wasted then scrolling through my  

phone one day i came across this video hi my name  is jeff seal and tonight i'm going to teach you  

how to get free food out of the garbage which  led me to this video we're also wasting all of  

this good food which led me to the question  could freaking isn't play a crucial role in  

the food waste crisis and could i survive three  stomach churning days living off discarded food  

or would i go to bed very very hungry i've  just found a freaking community in my city  

and there's almost 7 000 people that are part  of it that that means there's potentially 7 000  

people who live and thrive off dumpster  diving and off the friggin lifestyle  

that's an incredibly large amount of people so  i've literally just reached out to see if anyone  

would be interested in taking me on a dumpster  diving adventure and hopefully help me understand  

what this community does who the people are  that are part of it while we wait let's go  

and get some breakfast now i'm not gonna lie i  don't have the strongest stomach in the world  

and the thought of scrounging around in a bin to  find food it's just not the most pleasant idea  

i'm just imagining the thick sour smell of rotting  food and then opening the bin and all these like  

rats run out and then to get the food you need  to put your hands through this mashed banana and  

it's just like just so gross actually  that's given me an idea hang on one second  

so because the bins are so deep i've  just bought this so this is going to  

help me move some of the older food and  then like collect the things that are  

actually fresh and actually perfectly good  to eat this should come in a lot of handy

okay it's 12 p.m and i skipped  breaky i was just you know  

practicing for the uh for the actual thing  you know making sure i can grab that food and  

and you know i was practicing my bin movements  and my grabber movements and i just hit myself  

in the face yeah i was i was definitely just  stalling i think now i'm absolutely starving  

so i am going to actually go now and we're  going to give it a crack and hunt for some food  

so here's the deal it was pure carnage in there  just imagine like rotting fish moldy cheese  

just the most disgusting no just kidding  there was literally nothing in that bin so  

i guess i'm gonna have to try another  one but after driving around to a few  

more locations it became evident that it would be  too difficult to search the bins too many people

but luckily i got in touch with olivia an active  freaking who would take me on a dumpster dive  

the next day and she also told me that  you should only go diving late at night  

so i waited until night time okay  i have to be really quick because  

i'm definitely trespassing here but let's  have a look at what they have in their bins

damn it absolutely nothing

okay location number two is a no-go there are  just way too many security guards walking around  

i would definitely be caught one more place that  i know of that's close but other than that this  

might be an absolute fail of a day and  i'm gonna go to bed very very hungry

i don't know why but i definitely  thought this would be easier than it is  

especially not eating for an entire day  it just makes you so frustrated i don't  

know what i'm gonna do tomorrow because i have  so long before i get to go with olivia for the  

official dumpster diving adventure i'm gonna have  to work out something tomorrow that is for sure

held out as long as i can but i've got to  eat something and luckily i've just found  

the mushiest grossest banana that i could find  and also some yogurt that's past its expiry  

date in the fridge so considering i would have  been both surely that's fair game to be able to  

either right sure and hopefully that will keep me  nourished until i meet olivia tonight at 10 30 p.m  

hopefully i don't get sick from this  because this doesn't look the nicest yummy

it's not terrible but this will keep me fed  all right i'm gonna eat this in peace and i'll  

see you tonight i've got everything i need for a  proper bin diving session i've got my head torch  

oh jesus run the eyes i've got my hand clamper  which can pick up things i've got a backpack  

which is going to store all of the food and then  i'm going to be capturing it all on this gopro  

so after a few practice grabs i headed off to  meet olivia hello nice to meet you how you going  

good yeah so like i'd love to know how how you got  into this and and yeah why are you doing it i lost  

my full-time job through kroger because you're so  used to working full-time relying on hours and so  

i guess like what's the point of spending money on  food when it just gets right in the bin so do you  

think it started from a financial reason or from a  like a food or it's a combination of both i reckon  

food waste food waste was the first yeah it's  definitely i try to try to as much as mine live  

a minimal kind of life as much as i can and what  we found at the first location truly blew my mind  

i can't believe how much food is like it's  all perfectly good food as well we found a  

huge volume of fresh produce like cabbages  broccoli and mangoes as well as an almost  

entire case of pepsi cans and a few fresh beers  all right first location done and dusted do you  

feel like you get judged by friends or family  or whoever you speak to about when you do this  

oh yeah my family is very judgmental like  some people scream to their nose when i say  

i can't get my food from and when i show them the  food they're like oh my goodness because i was and  

you feel like you get enough um food for the week  or yeah like i don't go every night obviously i'll  

try and take as much as i can then i'm like what  the hell i do this food so then it's almost wasted  

exactly because that yeah that is  something i have noticed is that the  

the community only take what they need because  there was someone who posted um who was like  

please don't name names or locations or whatever  because there's a commit you know a big community  

of people who rely on on dumpster diving and  these food bins to to be able to survive and  

feed their families and stuff and i was like wow  i you know never even thought of that and i can't  

believe how much good food this is i just can't  get over it it is so frustrating because this is  

two massive bins that are just full of  perfectly edible food beautiful rolls

you know what like what was wrong with you  know what it was just delicious all right

about to drop off a bunch of the food we just  found to a community group they've got a free  

pantry a library a community garden and they  welcome anybody all right let's grab this and  

this is one of the only few groups in the  neighborhood providing support food and a  

sense of community for those individuals  and families doing it tough there's some  

pretty pretty good people out there that  are doing good things for the community

thank you so much i appreciate it and enjoy  the food wow what an insane experience that was  

can't quite believe it to be honest it is 12 30. i  

am absolutely knackered i'll  show you the whole tomorrow

this is the hole that i got last night and as  you can see it is not a huge amount of highly  

nutritious foods i am super grateful that i do  have this food to eat today but we're going to  

supplement with something else that i've literally  recently just found out about and it's an app  

called why waste now one of the app's key features  is it allows you to search for restaurants near  

you and purchase the leftover meals they couldn't  sell at a significantly discounted price reducing  

unnecessary food waste it just so happens that  some people that i know own one of the restaurants  

that are part of this program so i'm gonna go  and check out their restaurant later today but  

let's try some of this food and see what it's  like it's my favorite food this is it this slaps

not the worst thing i've had in my life  oh it's time for the last meal and i am  

so ready hey how are you good to see you hello do  you get many people coming in and using the white  

waist how do you used to get a lot more good  you know yeah people then started not doing it  

quite often so you know yeah you're going  to spread the word out there tell everyone  

to use that at the end of the day  we don't want our food to go into

legend thank you so much so it's evident that  a huge amount of food is still going to waste  

and whilst veganism may be too underground to have  the ability to truly impact the global food waste  

crisis what this community is doing is taking the  crisis into their own hands and actively working  

to reduce their personal and communities waste  which all has a compounding effect we all want  

to live a happy and healthy life and a big part  of this means looking after our environment so  

instead of buying a full price meal try the why  waste app or your country's equivalent consider  

donating leftover foods to your local charities  and just take whatever small steps you can to  

limit the amount of stuff that goes in the bin  otherwise we will forever be fighting an uphill  

battle don't forget to like and subscribe  everyone and i will see you in the next one