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We throw away a third of the food we produce worldwide. But how can we limit this waste?

Episode 10 of our series of stories on eco-citizen initiatives with French author Julien Vidal.
Transcript
00:00If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest CO2 emitter in the world, behind China and the United States.
00:08Why? Because we throw away a third of the food we produce in the world.
00:12Today, we are going to see together how to fight against food waste.
00:15First advice before you go shopping, take the time to make your own recipes to buy only what you need.
00:37For organic vegetables, for most recipes, you can actually cook with the skin.
00:43There are really a lot of things you can do with peels.
00:46The classic way with potato peels, you can make crisps.
00:50With carrot slices, you can make a pesto.
00:53And a little more surprising, you can keep the skin of a watermelon and make pickles out of it.
01:00Another key gesture is to make the difference between DLC and DDM.
01:05You can see it here, it's written here, to be consumed preferably.
01:09This is a DDM, a date of minimal durability, when the DLC is a limit date of consumption.
01:16So if here it is noted, to be consumed preferably, it means that even when the date is exceeded, it is still good to be eaten.
01:23Another tip to continue to fight against food waste is to go around your cupboards from time to time to check the date of the deadline.
01:31Here we see that the DLUO is until 31-12-2020, so we still have a little time.
01:38And if we know that we have food that we are not going to consume, we can give it.
01:42Here I have some tomatoes, and I'm going to show you where I'm going to put them.
01:48Here it is a solidary fridge, everyone can access it, drop food and take it back, and then there are more and more everywhere in France.
02:04Last tip to fight against food waste, it also happens in restaurants, and when you have had your eyes as big as your stomach, you can ask to recover your leftovers with a doggy bag.
02:13Thank you, have a good day.