Category: food waste

  • Recounting tales from the bin

    Recounting tales from the bin

    Chapter 2 in my recent book, Food Resistance Movements explores the freegan subculture in Australian cities—people who choose to consume food that would otherwise go to waste to protest overconsumption and hunger in the west. Two freegan case studies are discussed: members of Food Not Bombs, an activist community kitchen and free meal programme; and…

  • From an invisible to global problem: the twists and turns of the food waste movement

    From an invisible to global problem: the twists and turns of the food waste movement

    Since the early 2000s, food waste has emerged from an invisible to global problem. In Chapter 5 of my recent book, Food Resistance Movements, I describe the twists and turns of this change and the continuing shortfalls that curb the crisis of food waste. This chapter contextualises radical food waste movements such as ‘freegans’ –…