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takeaway that people watching cannot be part of the problem but part of the solution that ultimately you say will affect the price of food across the country to affect everybody? you know, it should affect the price. if we save more food and supermarkets are throwing us on less food the price of food should come down. but the simple thing to do is try to use up everything. you know, when you re going out shopping, don t make the impulse purchase. you know, make sure you re buying something you know you ll use. what i try to do now is every friday, i open up the refrigerator and clean it out. make sure i m using everything. the other thing you can do is start to use the freezer. learn how to use the freezer. freeze leftovers. repurpose leftovers. don t just serve the same dish the next day. try to repurpose those leftovers. so there s a lot of ways and different things that people can coo doo to cut out food waste. how close do you how do you demystify this? the film look at produ
that s essentially what we re doing in our homes today. powerful image there. and joining us now is award-winning chef restauranteur, and msnbc food correspondent, tom colicchio. more than half of produce grown goes to waste chef. and 40% of food produced in the u.s. is thrown out. these are staggering statistics. what makes this film so important? the filmmakers, they re tackling a subject we don t often talk about. you know, often we talk about food use hear about farmers markets and chefs get a lot of play and stuff. and clearly there s a lot of talk about hunger in this country. but this idea of waste isn t something we really talk about and focus on. so it s this is such an amazing project. you know filmmakers decide to go six months without purchasing food. and they manage in that time to spend only $200 on food while they recovered about 20,000. what s the takeaway? i want to talk about the film more. what is the simple take, did
bradley? sure. so food waste, especially things we re throwing away, vegetables or scraps, they end up in a landfill. if they go into the landfill, they get buried. they re in an january rexic an anorexic environment and turn to methane. worse than co2 felt we have to get food out of the landfill. today in new york mayor de blasio announced by 2020 that they want to go through a composting program where food waste is separated from regular garbage and doesn t end up in a landfill, ends up in a compost bin. simple takeaway make tonight a leftovers night. that s what our family does. good advice. good to see you. by the way, we know you ll be hosting a twitter chat at 1:00 p.m. join in by tweeting your questions to @tomcolicchio. c-o-l-i-c-l-h-i-o. and just eat it on msnbc. actor ben affleck
their luminaries who they ll need on their side. a juggernaut that s how they want it to appear. amy, thanks, alex, nice to see you in person. thank you very much. to mark earth day today, msnbc is airing a new documentary taking a look at food wasted. some of these numbers are staggering. the average american family, hear this, throws away as much as $2,300 worth of food each year. to illustrated the problem two filmmakers sets out on a six-month project to eat food that had been discarded and look at how much viable food we throw away. there was a study in new york. they looked at all the food waste in one county. the most waste came from households. more than from restaurants more than from supermarkets more than from farm. in our household, we re wasting somewhere between 15% and 25% of the food we re buying. that s expensive. i mean imagine walking out a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and not bothering to pick it up.