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Waste and opportunity: Tristram Stuart on how we could save the world with what we throw away

What we could do with what we waste from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.

Last week at the Birmingham Book Festival  I chaired Tristram Stuart talking about his excellent book Waste, an event programmed by the RSA. It is a brilliantly researched piece of work that leaves you horrified at the scale of the developed world’s pointless overconsumption.

Half way through the talk he brought the scale of our wasteage dramatically to life when pulled out a sliced granary loaf that he’d picked out of a bin outside a bakery a few hours earlier and started counting out the slices.

At that point I pretty much gave up chairing and pulled out my little video camera…

Read the book; it’s good.

Tristram’s Waste website

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