270,000 of apples on a subway train ..

[SoCalDem]

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the people waiting on the platform.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/new-york-subway-train-filled-with-apples-is-empltied-onto-platform-illustrates-food-waste-video.php

[Hamlette]

1. I read recently that Americans waste 40% of our food. Shocking n/t

[SoCalDem]

2. It's the WAY we shop.. People buy too much at one time

and end up throwing a lot away..Europeans (many of them) still shop daily or almost daily, and consume what they buy right away.. Mys son went to college in Florence Italy and he was blown away by the way people shopped.. He shared a courtyard apartment with 3 other students and at first he was amazed by all the courtyard traffic of the shoppers..but he soon learned that there were no BIG stores, and he too learned to shop the stalls & mini-markets....and their refrigerator was teeeeeensy:)

[unpossibles]

3. You do realize that there are like 8 and a half million people here, right?

Which means that daily we waste something like 3% of a pound per person - that's really not very much.

Also, I have to question this stunt, although I think it raises good points - wouldn't filling a subway car with thousands of apples be pretty wasteful in itself? Not to mention the mess cleaning it up.

Also, I waste a LOT less since moving here because I have to make more frequent smaller trips to the store, and I can't afford to throw money away on much wasted food.

All of that said, I do think this group's heart is in the right place, but... I don't know that it's any more wasteful than elsewhere in the nation, and perhaps less so per capita.

[SoCalDem]

4. perhaps they picked them all up, washed them, and donated them

:rofl:

I don;t think the subway people would have allowed them to leave them there..

or maybe they baked the world's largest apple pie:)

or all the public schools had apple cobbler the next day :rofl:

[valerief]

5. With or without pesticides? nt