Tasty Producers Tried To Not Waste Any Food For A Week

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[@partypickles721]

When I thought of food waste I thought of egg shells, banana peels, coffee grounds, the occasional leftovers in Tupperware that was forgotten and grew mold. Not throwing away perfectly fine food? This was so painful to see so many people doing this. I can't even imagine throwing away good food like that. I'm also so used to using my garbage disposal in the sink, not throwing it in the trash bin. Anywho, rant over :3

[@mj-yo7vt]

Same here, it breaks my heart seeing this

[@florinceduke9283]

A lot of this can be composted all food except for meat,bones,and any type of shells

[@PerfecltyxImperfect]

No offence but garbage disposal is still throwing food away....

[@quichex466]

my parents raised me to never waste food so it was shocking to see people throwing all that food... makes me uncomfortable

[@alternateworldline]

quichex big marvel teached me

[@reeses3466]

quichex me too

[@kamarienedwards1757]

quichex same, if it’s on my plate I will eat it, even if it is a lot or nasty

[@solodecade]

Same My mom would always bee like" If you don't want it give it to me or your siblings"

[@ykniyaaa5015]

quichex samee

[@Jordishness]

Genuinely surprised that they were just THROWING food away. And that they’re like, “omg i made MORE FOOD from my leftovers.” Like, that’s what you’re supposed to do! Like... in shock right now. That’s gotta be such ignorance right there! But good on them for changing their habits!

[@anahitar.7094]

I agree!

[@marija6495]

Agree! Americans are kind of weird, why do they throw away food that is still good to eat? They also must have straws in every drink, just why that's too childish.

[@zzbeazley]

ikr

[@PerfecltyxImperfect]

Yes, so happy they changed for a couple hours a day but like duuuuude do you realise there are literal COUNTRIES filled with starving children and they're just casually throwing whole ass plates of food out.... This comment is to tasty not you hehe

[@ni3070]

100% agreed

[@Matildochka]

Sweet potato hummus... instead of throwing it out... I am sorry, do you normally just throw out pounds of perfectly good food?!!

[@rberkowitz9453]

Maria Suvorova ik!!

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Yeah I rewound that several times because my brain was screaming CANNOT COMPUTE WTFFFFFF

[@kizelm.5584]

That's exactly what I thought

[@mirandaisgross]

I think because they make SO MUCH food there for the tasty videos that it's hard to get it all eaten.

[@luanasinclair]

but they have so many people working at buzzfeed XD they can just make ''leftover friday'' every week

[@jojoalvarado7552]

I’m actually so surprised this wasn’t already happening considering food is the basis of their whole company.

[@Annika9517]

Jojo Alvarado it's shocking tbh

[@carcinogeneticist4972]

This is the content we need. Saving the planet, little by little.

[@hunterwhite4544]

carcinoGeneticist nah screw the planet

[@ashnight7637]

Hunter White You live on this planet though? Might as well take care of it for future generations.

[@yweerakkody7472]

Hunter White um...

[@stoppable131]

they only did it for a WEEK

[@andreaparrado1900]

Stoppable Yes, they only did the challenge for a week, but the compost system they implemented is permanent which makes a huge, lasting difference.

[@hereismika]

I find it crazy that you didn’t compost already!! You are a food channel for goodness sakes!!! I am glad to hear that you are doing it now and I hope you continue to do it after this week

[@jessnovak2113]

You know they definitely did not continue this Its too much work for them to actually care about the environment

[@melo13melo]

2:21 Seriously. Before this challenge they were throwing away perfectly eatable food and saw nothing wrong with that? Food companies donate their unused food all the time. It's astounding that this never occurred to them.

[@ludmillababayan163]

Even during this challenge they threw out perfectly edible food, except they put it into the compost bin now... very weird in my opinion.

[@amberwendorf7071]

It also depends on where the are and what the laws are. In Texas you cannot give out leftovers to homeless shelters etc. so the restaurants just throw it away. Not sure how New York is. But in most states litigation is behind the times

[@WealthbuilderzTV]

Donating the food to the homeless would be the best thing to do. Instead of throwing it out. Producing no food waste is definitely a task

[@yansun5241]

i guess there can be health risks and concerns if they donate the food to homeless... in case of food gone bad and people may sue buzzfeed/tasty for it

[@ChathuraPerera]

Good suggestions

[@amber_1740]

Yan Sun I just wanted to jump in to say that the possible health risks are an issue that the organisation to which the food is donated takes care of by checking everything. In addition, even if somebody does get sick from the donated food, buzzfeed can’t get sued unless there’s evidence they donated spoiled food to get people sick on purpose. It’s a common misconception companies can get sued over donated food. It’s great you’re thinking about the health of the homeless people, I just wanted to share this information. Have a nice day!

[@Yoyle-jq9ul]

Yan Sun lol

[@Cranies]

I agree to some extent. If you have some salad left over, either finish it later or give it to a homeless person. Don't let it sit on your fridge for a week to rot. Know your capacity and don't over-order food or cook too much of it. But there's still the food scraps and food gone bad. We can't eliminate food waste completely but there's certainly things we can do to make it better.

[@MaverickBaking]

In Scotland we have had green composting bins in like every home for YEARS now.

[@treelo11]

Yeah lived in Germany and Japan and we compost at home

[@gabriellex3098]

Maverick Baking same in England.

[@natashasalas9220]

i wish america was like that

[@leonievermassen8997]

Same in Belgium

[@thematchkookieisholdingins5542]

Same in Germany. It's normal for me to do it. I'm always shooked when people throw their food waste in the wrong trash bin.

[@My-sg9ji]

Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I'm a bit shocked that food is thrown away so easily there! For me it's absolutely normal to keep leftovers in a box for the next day(s)! I live in Germany and I think the majority of people here rather keep leftovers than throw loads of perfectly fine food in the bin! But it's great that the mindset of composting and saving food is starting to spread, other parts of the world have already been doing that for ages! ;)

[@johannaguerrero1790]

My Yeah I think there’s that attitude here because of a convenience thing. It actually irritates me so much when people say they don’t like leftovers and insist on having every meal freshly cooked. The freshly cooked part bothers me mainly when it’s men who have their wife doing all the cooking but in general when every meal has leftovers and they are just being thrown out because they just won’t eat it. You can absolutely just cook smaller portions if you really don’t want leftovers.

[@ilovesparky13]

If you’re not already doing this, you should have a program where other buzzfeed employees can pick up leftovers from the kitchen at the end of the workday or something.

[@annaanna6411]

wait... so if you cook something and you have leftovers or you didn't use all of your ingredients you throw it away? That's so wasteful and expensive. I try to use every single bit of my groceries. sure, sometimes something goes bad and i have to throw it away. it just blows my mind that people throw away perfectly good food.

[@sola_a]

Anna|annA SAME. I was genuinely shocked when she said that

[@annaanna6411]

Sola Yeah, especially since those are people that obviously work with food and love to cook.

[@darkraysofsunshine3113]

When that one guy was throwing away those green onions I was so confused. Like dude, I could use those for another week

[@pupper3435]

Same, whoa. I was so confused as to why so much good food was going to be thrown away. No wonder the amount of wasted food is through the roof.

[@Udontkno7]

Tbh, it's like...have y'all not been poor? I couldn't even throw away rotten apples, just bite around the rotten parts.

[@Koboldmensch]

I'm just stunned. We learn stuff like that in kindergarden. Seeing grwon-ups working with food as their job struggling so much with composting and food-saving is just crazy

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Welcome to America, where many of our adults are as competent as other nation's grade schoolers.

[@WorldWalker128]

I know, right? Some food leftoveres can stay good in the fridge for over a week, and if you've got that much food, and don't want to eat all of it, toss it in the freezer.

[@lanikafullbuster6154]

i mean everyone learns all about this but not people actually do this

[@mevoy2702]

Koboldmensch same!

[@galedekarios]

is it just me, or are these people acting as if they've never heard of composting? for example the guy that thought it would be *scary* to compost? no wonder the americans produce such amounts of food waste.

[@Jrr592]

A lot of people don’t compost

[@eleonore59830]

@@Jrr592 why tho ? don't you have compost bins in the USA ? That is weird here every house has one alongside the ones for recyclable and for non-recyclable

[@chinyereo561]

@@eleonore59830 There is compost bins sometime in public places. But most houses dont have compost bins

[@creepybabby]

ya I would have expected them to say it was inconvenient rather than scary

[@perspectivelee]

Why wasn't there a compost bin before? Building regulations I do guess, but it didn't really seem like such a big issue thay couldn't have done before. All the things these employees were 'realising' in this video are just common sense, like "instead of throwing away food, we can just eat it!" Like what wasn't that blatantly clear to you even before you guys got a compost bin? Very disappointed they were throwing away all that perfectly good food considering the amount of cooking they do, and all the articles that Buzzfeed especially pumps out regarding food waste and environmentalism. At least they've started now.

[@haberschnack]

Sevina Lee jup, was kinda shocked too, the hummus, the stuff that guy wanted to throw away (chives on top). Why is it not common to eat all your food. Most stuff is still good after a few days.... Truly sad...

[@WorldWalker128]

I've worked for a super Walmart, and a Taco Bell in the past. Some managers let you eat the food and some don't. But overall we aren't supposed to. At my current job lets say a pack of pens gets ripped open and ONE pen is damaged or missing. We have to throw out the GOOD pens. We're not allowed to use them. Why? Legal issues. That's it. It's not just food that's going to waste. So much of the crap my current workplace throws away isn't garbage.

[@haberschnack]

WorldWalker128 this kind of company behavior is nightmarish but so common in the western world and developed countries. I've been working partime as a waitress for 7 years now and there have only been two companies that allowed there staff to take left over food home. Everything else is thrown away (to the compost small blessing). And throwing away the whole thing because one is broken or not looking nice enough should be outlawed... But where there's money and imagined overflow of resources no one wants to bat an eye

[@florinceduke9283]

Some companies don’t have enough money for it or don’t think it’s that important to do or take care of because they rely on other people when they don’t have to do what they do!!!

[@RukisLeech93]

I live in Sweden, and ever since I was a child we got to learn about composting and it's a natural thing to do here in Sweden. So knowing about this... is shocking...

[@AndreasReinholdSchweiz]

In Swiss too but we still call it Food wasting when we composting!

[@haimy697]

Andreas Reinhold same in Germany

[@SoSpiritual]

Same in Finland.

[@thefairynomad3504]

Same in Canada

[@melaniemaessen785]

Same in the Netherlands

[@paulaeling5327]

The German in me is going crazy, how can you not be composting already? Why have you got one bin for all your waste? Here in Germany we have bins for compost, plastic, paper and other. Children are taught to recycle and sort their trash at a very young age too.

[@XxPumpinChickxX]

@Mr.Angry yeah this PERSON alone caused two world wars.

[@XxPumpinChickxX]

@Mr.Angry your kidding me right?

[@viki1604]

@Mr.Angry You've got to be kidding! Composting or recycling stands in NO connection to both world wars at all. And ranting about a person, just because she belongs to a certain nationality is pretty damn racist and racism is no joke, either. I'm German too and yes, Germans have done all the awful and horrific things back then, but neither Paula, nor I have participated in that and it is not our personal fault. Blaming us, personally for both world wars is like blaming young Americans for murdering Native Americans and claiming their land.

[@realnamehere5309]

Mr.Angry yes you can be racist just because your black doesn’t mean you cant be racist yes almost all racism is aimed at blacks but that doesn’t mean blacks cant be racist

[@tal2870]

@Mr.Angry lol what's wrong with u? - don't answer that, we already know it. Just start thinking about your mindset...

[@tuvagreen-stensrud7208]

To all the people commenting about how bad it was that they didn't compost before, at least they are doing it now and that makes a big difference even if they only did it for a week :)

[@mernak2239]

THANK YOU

[@maisiecooper5586]

It's actually lowkey cringy how everyone is so chuffed with themselves over composting ... also was anyone else offended at the idea that if that lady wasn't doing the challenge then she was going to throw away perfectly good hummus?

[@johannaguerrero1790]

Maisie Cooper Yeah that was so surprising to me. Idk if that was at work or her home but if it was good and I liked it I would have taken that with me. Keep in the fridge for a couple days or until next week if I’m feeling sick of it, throw it out if it’s gotten bad.

[@PerfecltyxImperfect]

RIGHTT!!!!! THIS VIDEO MADE ME MAD

[@PerfecltyxImperfect]

This reminded of the show they had on TV years ago when they had 24 year old rich kids wash dishes & he was proud to want a CUP!! 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@veridian4433]

I'm sitting here eating the cup that came with the cup noodles for extra nutrients

[@da-rt2wc]

okayyy?!? H

[@wyattoleff6835]

mood

[@annah7793]

I’m not only eating the cup my cup noodles came in but I’m also eating the fork I used to eat the noodles and the plastic wrap and the paper cover of the cup noodles

[@lybo1581]

Veridian You just made my night😂

[@yuvgee3537]

Composting doesnt help the hungry children in america. Instead of dumping food waste into the ground, you are just feeding it to worms

[@Sofia2crazy]

It was a perfectly good half avocado. Can't believe it could just go to the compost like that.

[@loveamii]

Ariadna Gaytan I thought she made a salad with that leftover avocado

[@rubywhitfield2881]

She made a salad with it

[@jenneli314]

Expectation: "How can I re-purpose banana skins and eggshells?" Reality: "Maybe I should eat leftovers instead of throwing them away!"

[@keeptheareaclear]

This is kind of ridiculous to watch when in the uk and many other European countries we have to compost and separate our other rubbish, and our councils supply all the bins for free.

[@juliaaesthetic1161]

keeptheareaclear what’s rubbish?

[@yuz_ha]

Julia Aesthetic Trash. Garbage.

[@juliaaesthetic1161]

ʚ sakura ɞ oh thanks 😊

[@CuriosityCulture]

I was wondering what tasty does with their food demos!

[@MissBELLE003]

Harshil Patel I don’t get it?

[@jesslyn2993]

I think they share it with their coworkers either for lunch or just for snack?

[@jdb33678]

Harshil Patel every buzzfeed video I go to you’re literally the top comment

[@dyz5wv]

?@*@@*!;#÷_

[@zoomgamer7268]

Your always here

[@hubbiemid6209]

Its honestly embarrassing that your kitchen wasn't composting already, considering the kitchen is dedicated to regularly making food and experimenting with food

[@alexanderbruno]

Bryan Coronel well at least they’ve made a change about it

[@kykytrif148]

Bryan Coronel I was just thinking that I thought they already did! Heartbreaking

[@alexanderbruno]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart exactly what I was thinking!

[@72dragona]

Bryan Coronel For them being as liberal as they are I was shocked as well

[@Annika9517]

It's quite shocking actually! And even more that it seemed so hard for her to even organize a composting bin. So glad that where i live composting and recycling and trash separation isn't only a thing, but compulsory.

[@ashiri6886]

As an Asian our house hold never really wasted edible food so it was shocking to see this lmao

[@yuz_ha]

ashiri Ikr.

[@Ashley-sp8xc]

I thought food waste was stuff they couldn't eat, like banana peels, vegetable skin, or egg shells. I can't believe Tasty producers are throwing away perfectly good food! 5:48 , the avocado, tomato, and onion looked good! 2:22, the hummus looks amazing! WHY would you ever throw that out?!

[@tim912-oc]

I think it’s not that big of a deal. Here in Germany we have at least 4 trashcans in our kitchen. One for paper, one for composting, one for plastic and one for waste ( everything that doesn’t fit in one of the other categories) 😬 don’t get me wrong, I appreciate it that they’re caring about that because it will help all of us. No matter where you live

[@FROBcom]

Tim Mahlkuch yup in most of Europe that's just what we've been doing for 15-30 years I'm honestly shocked it's such a novelty to them lol

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Yeah when I visited my German family I was so thrilled with the waste system and I kept exclaiming about it and admiring it and offering to take the apartment's waste down to the big bins outside and they were all like, "What is your poor country like, you strange child*?" *I was eighteen. Where I grew up, we had to drive our recycling to the recycling facility outside of town ourselves if we didn't want it to end up in a landfill.

[@MrNotThatFamous]

i would of ate it all if you gave me a call

[@cautionknight5427]

Mr Not That Famous if you sub I will sub back

[@cautiongamer8097]

Mr Not That Famous if u sub to me I will sub back

[@happy_lunar5362]

Mr Not That Famous honestly, me too

[@MissBELLE003]

Mr Not That Famous not a good poem

[@p.taylor876]

Mr Not That Famous mhmm

[@nathaneggert2632]

I live in Canada there's literally a compost bin in every house on my street😂.

[@katysmith1284]

Mr.Angry bread bins exist for a reason. Keep cucumbers in the fridge, not on the counter (I legitimately know someone who does this). Buy breathable cloth bags for onions and potatoes etc. All frozen produce should come in cardboard instead of in plastic. It’s not that hard.

[@68camarorsss33]

WOW!!!! You’re going to eat your sweet potato hummus tomorrow....saving the world one idea at a time...SMH LOL

[@sumaitabinteshorif3260]

In my family, we are not allowed to waste food. Throwing away food is not an option. It's only an option if the food goes bad for some reason.

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Do you want to adopt a 25yo? I'm super well behaved but not really.

[@sumaitabinteshorif3260]

FiddlebirdBlue lmao bruh you asking a 19 year old to adopt a 25 y o??

[@guesswho8529]

My only question Are you guys gonna be consistent?

[@aishwaryaviswanathan4753]

Guess who? Exactly! It's easy to do it for a week, most things are. I would be impressed if they recorded from now till same time next year and proved to be consistent.

[@guesswho8529]

But they still might just ignore it :/

[@aishwaryaviswanathan4753]

eris yes they may have a compost and they may use it too, but would they continue to use it with such fervour and dedication? That's the important part.

[@Joe-ff8qb]

Guess who? Probably not 😂

[@user-ib5cs7pt1x]

I guess not. I bet they just did it for the likes.

[@Mangifera]

I'm in shock! I thought you were talking about peels and something unedible! But you throwed away like perfectly good food? What a privilidge ignorant asses are work there??? I'm struggling to eat healthy because it's too expensive in my country and they just throwing food away! OMG SMH

[@emmac.j.8374]

Dying Young I guess my parents threw away blackberries because they were bad but I wanted to eat them so I feel bad

[@yuz_ha]

I feel so bad. If you don't mind me asking. Which country do you live in?

[@hazeltiberiuslee7216]

Question: has tasty tried donating left over food to the homeless? I think it'd be great if you could help the community as well! PS. Great job! That effort goes a long way and proud of y'all

[@johannaguerrero1790]

Unicornsnow Studio That sounds like a great use but as Buzzfeed the company doing that I could see how they might want to avoid it for legal reasons.

[@minkakemi]

Jesus!!!!! they were throwing away all the leftovers WTF?????

[@bubblegumcorn2047]

minkakemi IKR

[@rainyvibessubliminals]

Yeah there's a rule in kfc...the food left after the closing hours should be thrown away.. it cant be taken by any of the worker or shouldn't be given to the beggers.This breaks my heart, 💔

[@edenteo5099]

Yeah. It's because if it goes bad during the day and makes someone sick later, it can be blamed on KFC or other fast food corporations who have the same rule.

[@markryans2387]

Eden 27 But if it was good enough to serve before the store closed, why would it go bad a few minutes after it closed?

[@PJ_the_tortie]

Mark Ryans Ikr! It's incredible how much good food gets thrown out!

[@bbumply]

Mark Ryans it’s really easy to get sued from homeless people if they’re given food because it can give them food poisoning

[@PJ_the_tortie]

It's Brandon I worked at one place that wouldn't even let me take home bread to the BIRDS. It all goes to a landfill. Cuz they don't want to get sued. SMH.

[@thormaster06]

I grew up during the war in Croatia in the '90s so abundance was something I wasn't used to. Even today with my PhD in pharmacy im doing very well for myself I hate wasting food. If I'm not planing on eating leftovers I usually make less so I eat in for one meal.

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Yeah I'm from the US but also had a lot of food insecurity in my teens and young adulthood. Of course nothing on par with your experience! But I don't waste food much either. Feels wrong.

[@mollys9101]

Wait wtf do Americans not compost?? I’m so shook this is something that the rest of us just do lol almost all public buildings have compost bins separate from trash or recycling

[@WorldWalker128]

I tried to when I moved into my new place. I set up wooden pegs to mark where I had it, and then started piling it in the back corner of the yard so I could use it next year for a garden I had planned out. One of my neighbors called some kind of inspector on me and he said I could either remove it or be fined $600. So now I don't compost.

[@partypickles721]

For the US I guess it has to do with location, because I live near Seattle (in the Northwest) and composting is very very normal for us. It's in homes, schools, Parks, recreational buildings etc. So it's surprising for me to see that it's not so normal in other places

[@Kelly-tz3ic]

I’m in the US and all the dining halls on my college campus compost food waste

[@arbitraryimagines]

WorldWalker128 Perhaps if you used bins for composting it would be allowed? I think they are concerned about open piles of decaying organic material.

[@leankcirejs4181]

Damn that guy cleaned the apple so much!😵😵😵😵

[@stifledbabsie]

Eat the apple from the top down rather than from the sides. Then all you're left with is the stem and the seeds. Try it out! :)

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

It did look like he ate the flowery black bit at the bottom, which my dad [a doctor] always sad was bad for you. But otherwise I was really impressed!

[@stifledbabsie]

Did he ever say why it was bad? I know the seeds are bad but hadn't heard about the bottom flower bit.

[@WorldWalker128]

I didn't know that much of an apple was edible!

[@kathy6433]

All that food is perfectly good to eat and they should donate all that food to homeless people or the less fortunate that don’t have much money to spend on food

[@luziealyssa5677]

at first I was really confused why it would be such a great deal to do composting because I am from Germany where it is standart to compost and sometimes I forget that this isn't the standart ^^' But that just makes it even better that you went through this to organize a way to compost in your office!

[@Julskinkan]

I'm stunned! It took me far to long to figure out what to write because I couldn't believe it was this bad. I'm from Sweden and I've never seen this type of behaviour in my 30 years of living. Meaning we had it better in the 90's than you seem to have it now. Talking about work places; We have general garbage cans by some desks, but none in the kitchen since everything gets sorted. Compost, metal, glas, paper, plastic, cardbord etc. We even help out sorting already thrown things if they ended up in the wrong place. It keeps really clean when you sort correctly so putting your hands in one of the containers to move something or break one odd bit off isn't messy at all. Very few people don't sort at home. Some do put paper and some plastic in the general garbage but mostly you see mixed things like labels or half paper, half plastic. We even have some counties where you legally have to separate food from other burnables before you get to throw it out. In those counties you get bags from the state with different colours to be able to sort them when collecting. We do throw out a lot of food in Sweden as well. Most are from damage during transport, getting old or damaged in stores and in restaurants. All three are being worked on by reducing restaurant prices after lunch and selling as take aways for dinner, giving away older (not uneatable) fruits to kids or selling at heavely reduced prices in stores and transporting less and in better ways.

[@MidnightCravings]

How about SHARING them with the less fortunate? Or donate them to a Food Bank?

[@rainyvibessubliminals]

Midnight Cravings 💔💔💔💔there are still some people with golden heart like you

[@1047josh]

you cant just donate anything to a food bank, it has to be regulated and they have specific parameters, lefter overs are most likely on of the big contributions.

[@Morningwisdom]

You want them to share a banana peel or rotten food?

[@luciyak1641]

You also can’t donate to the homeless because they could sue you in some cases. If the food poisons or does anything harmful to their body.

[@kykytrif148]

I think that would be great but you can't really donate fresh food

[@sreehariknair6638]

Mommy's lesson: Never waste your food 🍇

[@justinandrianpotolin1033]

my mom would smack me if i waste food

[@MrKundu-vp7td]

SREEHARI K NAIR , yes so true!!

[@king.kthebest6158]

We just have a really big wooden box in our backyard loaded with compost, and chicken wich we also give our scraps to. We don't even live on a farm or anything. Just a normal house.

[@cadencegrunau]

My school runs on green energy and we have compost in our school ( Canadas one step ahead )

[@addicted2anime26]

Wait, Americans don't have a Green Bin program?

[@Shan-dh2nv]

What is a green bin program if you don't mind explaining?

[@LethiaVorondil]

Having lived in Northwest USA and in Canada, most middle class American families I knew recycled but didn’t compost. Where I’m at in Canada it’s mandatory for residential at least. You get used to it quickly.

[@FROBcom]

Shan kool It's just the food waste collection system in use in Canada.

[@FROBcom]

Jessica Kirkman do you mean actual composting or just food waste collection and recycling?

[@sprinklessmarties2921]

Addicted 2 Anime We do but you have to pay extra for it I think

[@eliskacharlottew.2408]

I thought tasty already shared the food with buzzfeed workers?? have they just been throwing it away this whole time?? what a waste!!!!!!!

[@Jrr592]

They probably do share but not everything gets eaten

[@nativedoll2001]

This is so awesome. I applaud you, Merle, and everyone at tasty for helping keep our earth a little greener🌱 "we didn't inherit this world from our ancestors; we're borrowing it from our children"🌎

[@martinevetle]

I live in Norway, and I can not remember not having a system for sorting waste. We have different bins for food, paper, plastic, metal and so on. In Oslo, where I live, our trash is sorted in different colored bags. You can also freeze the trash, like the unused parts of the onion, carrot peel and much more. It can be stored in the freezer for a month and then you could make a great vegetable stock out of it.

[@stakixy2989]

I don't understand how people eat,and when they're full they throw away the perfectly good food.Wtf?But this was very nice from buzzfeed :)

[@slxvikk]

Wait wtf you guys dont have compost? In Quebec where im from im pretty sure its mandatory.

[@Annika9517]

Lukyniuk where i live in Germany and in Italy too.

[@greg-tb3dz]

We compost on the East Coast of Canada too, it’s crazy to see all of this food get put in the garbage!

[@ursulagarcia9581]

The U.S. is. wayyy behind on a lot of stuff lol I didn't even KNOW what composting was growing up, it's ridiculous!

[@Udontkno7]

Ursula Garcia I'm sorry, but as a American, how could you not know-

[@ursulagarcia9581]

roman lettuce ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was never taught when I was school, let alone implemented throughout my city. When it comes to green living, we're starting to catch up, but it's still a work in progress.

[@rovietergeek]

Is it just me or do I find food waste absolutely weird? In my house we never produced food waste

[@mariaminghi4297]

Even here in Mexico we have green bin and compost programs

[@julieisntcoolie]

I guess you could say *no tasty wasty*

[@lorenzschwerzmann1439]

Where I live, in switzerland, everybody does composting and it’s like the most natural thing!😁🌿

[@user-ph7bv3ym1e]

**puts compost in plastic bag

[@nocomment7697]

Bobby Guyton Maybe it was a biodegradable bag. Or at least I hope so...

[@danecobain]

It's good that you're sharing this and raising awareness. Nowhere that I've worked has ever done something like this and I wish they would!

[@laurascotto2821]

Wow honestly im disappointed in the fact that you guys werent doing that and that you just started

[@emilylavendarhearts]

at least they start instead of never ? :)

[@djdoinurmom6818]

At least they started to now instead of never doing it...

[@eceacar1741]

we arent going to be able to say that when global warming consumes us all. "at least the polar bear has one cube of ice left" you should call out people and not use the at least excuse

[@Phoenix-nk6gy]

Aj Acar Okay if we call them out they're going to say "We know and that's why we changed." So what's the problem with using the 'at least' phrase if they're changing already without us calling them out.

[@LuvQu]

You can’t change the past. What’s important is that they’re doing it now, and this video will hopefully inspire others to do the same.

[@umuwi]

ahh congrats on successfully getting a composting system going on in your office!! u put a lot of hard work into making it work and that’s really inspiring to me as a member of my school’s environmental council. awesome stuff 👍👍👍

[@whenyouwishuponastar6643]

When I started compositing at home I was shocked at how easy it really was! Kind of upsetting that composting isn’t a regular part of life all across the country. I’m so glad to see that is changing! And it’s amazing the difference in the weight of trash being thrown out in the video! Awesome!

[@MsTLea]

My daughter and I take all of our raw veggie scraps, like, peels, skins, ends and seeds from all veggies and some leftover meat scraps and we freeze them to put into a crock pot at a later date and make broth. The broth is used for soups, sauces or crock pot dishes. Once the broth is made, the pulp that's left goes into the garden to feed the worms.

[@serenityofrivendell7120]

I work in retail and a district manager from another district told us to damage out a lot of the discontinued food that wasnt selling and throw it away...80 percent of it wasnt expired...I refused.

[@JK-tp6nh]

I am curious to why they are not donating that food. There are probably a lot of homeless people that could use some of that food. I hate wasting food, so I almost always try and eat leftovers or make them into a new dish.

[@Becca410]

Most places that accept food donations only accept nonperishable items like canned goods. It's also illegal in some states to donate leftovers/food scraps to the homeless because you can get sued if it causes food poisoning, etc. Sadly, there aren't many feasible ways for that kind of food to make its way to the homeless population.

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Becca M I'm just gonna leave this right here ... www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/partners/become-a-product-partner/food-partners.html TLDR: That "army of homeless with magical legal representation and medical proof" is kinda definitely a myth.

[@lormekamorley7513]

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[@user-fn5bm5bh8z]

Every time I watch TASTY videos, I feel very uncomfortable seeing the food that cling to containers not used completely. In other words, while your producers are cooking, when you pour one ingredient to the other, the food in the pouring bowl is not usef to the full, but you simply throw it away. I think you should have scraped the bowl so that not a bit of the food is thrown away! The residue food in a container eventually has to go to sewage, contaminating our rivers and seas. Best chefs never do that. They do not waste any morsel of food. I hope Tasty producers could be more sensitive enough to understand the concerns of your audience who are mindful of environment issues.

[@its_just_seb]

Honestly, props to you buzzfeed. I've always loved to watch your Tasty videos but I also had this nagging thought in the back of my mind that told me it's probably going to waste afterwards. Now I can watch those videos with a good conscience. Thank you.

[@ray5334]

buzzfeed needs to make more of these videos

[@angelalovell5669]

YAAAAAASS, QUEENS! I've been hoping Tasty was composting, nomming and sharing their leftovers. Excellent job, that change was unreal (especially the fridge, FTW!!!) Keep up all the environmental heroing, you're an awesome inspiration and example

[@yugoxgc]

Honestly The lack of a composting Bin feel s Criminal. You're a food Based production You should have had that from The moment you started this business =_=

[@yhctaw]

Thank you so much for producing such a wonderful and necessary video. As viewers of Tasty content, the last thing we think about are what actually happens to the food-the mess ups in particular- because that's a hella a lot of food per attempt! I'll watch Buzzfeed from now looking forward to informative and well told content like this. Thank you so much 👏

[@justinetorres4814]

this is the content i love to see...informative, interesting, and entertaining! great job with this video :)

[@mevana81]

i cant imagine not composting... we're doing it as long as i can remember... its scary thinking about that you havent dont it until now ... but its a step

[@freshoutofsoap6212]

shut up

[@mildred9602]

Composting is honestly not that big of a deal, its just as easy as putting it into a bin just a different kind of one.

[@rosalie9988]

5:40 those were perfectly good spring onions. Hurts to see good food wasted!!!

[@JustKevYTP]

I wish they took all the food scraps and blended it together and drank it instead. It would give my youtube feed a buzz

[@kirvanpody]

Kevin Li lmao

[@eatsomenonvegancheese9993]

🤢

[@ritalinclub7607]

I can’t. Believe how much food we waste

[@cautiongamer8097]

savagers if u sub to me I will sub back

[@noraremy1892]

in denmark’s capitol we get free composting bins and bags, our food scraps are used to make bus fuel.

[@invaderkittykai]

I'm glad in my country, most people have a food waste bin, regular bin, cardboard bin, and recycling bin.

[@Klapaocious77]

You should have called Ari!

[@eternalitemission422]

food I have no use for, very strange concept

[@FiddlebirdBlue]

Right? If I won't eat it, the boyfriend will.

[@Mike-cv9sr]

Here in Luxembourg, all the houses have a compost,paper and a glass bin and big plastic bags for recyclable packages :)

[@rainyvibessubliminals]

We foodies know its worth💖

[@CliffordStarks1]

Nice it is important to have awareness of these kind of topics 👍

[@jophietang5202]

There's a composting bin in every home in England:) never thought about how nice it actually is since it has become a habit long ago x I'm sure that this video is gonna influence thousands of people to start composting today! Thank you for doing this:)

[@camideleon5880]

Hope you guys keep this up! Glad that you got a composting machine ! ^_^

[@k9xmysterious385]

My city has mandatory composting

[@branflakes7365]

What I love about a food place in England (Pret a Manger) it donates any leftover food at the end of the day to the homeless and all their food is fresh that day.

[@amribrahimseifallam3783]

merle , you're a great person really and you pushed them to do the right thing which them good as well but you are just awesome for doing that and I hope you be happy in return , thanks for caring about others.

[@rustyshackleford4076]

This is great, I’d also challenge Tasty to stop wasting so much water through their use of like 10 glass bowls for a single recipe

[@ray5334]

I feel like they should’ve given it to homeless people out on the streets instead of composting it

[@aveliene5565]

yess

[@Annika9517]

Well i don't think that any homeless would want banana peel and eggshells? Cause that is what you should put in the compost. Not food that is still good to eat...

[@ray5334]

Annika Vogel not that, the fries they didn’t eat and probably half a sandwich they didn’t want

[@Annika9517]

moonlight yes yes I agree with that. edible food should be eaten ... And scraps and spoiled food should go to the compost.

[@fareehasmusic]

The best way to reduce compost waste bins is to save seeds from vegetables and fruit scraps to start projecting home grown planted seeds into soils to reuse scraps for producing plants. Or why not save the scraps for farmers to grow cropa

[@therookieca]

In Ontario, Canada we have municipal run (green bins) you put your compost in it and they come pick it up on normal garbage days.

[@fayeespiritu2906]

Here in the Philippines we don't waste a single bit! 🇵🇭😂💜

[@kaiyabou]

Why do people throw food away? I always finish the food. Whether it's leftovers or not. I hate it because I've seen so many children without food.

[@laeloshaughnessy8]

I’m surprised that this video has so much hate! Yes they should have been composting before, but it’s better that they are making a change than not making this video and keeping it the way it was!

[@Tracster13]

Love that Buzzfeed has been putting a focus on the environment with all of their videos recently!!!!!

[@christinasweeney-baird5954]

What kind of ‘eco-enthusiast’ isn’t already composting their food waste?! And throwing food away so easily good lord 😫

[@appleroad112]

I don't know why it has taken this long just to start composting- that's the easy part. I challenge the entire buzzfeed team to go one month without buying single-use plastic.♻️ Good luck 😅