Noting that food thrown away in Europe and North America alone could feed the world’s hungry three times over, “Taste the Waste” offers a globe-trotting survey of conspicuous consumption’s downside and some bright ideas on how so-called garbage can be repurposed to benefit all.

This lively, upbeat advocacy docu is a good bet for environmental-interest slots in all formats. Sprawling from Japan to Cameroon to Manhattan, this briskly paced, colorful feature underlines its power-to-the-people tilt by eschewing narration in favor of interviewees’ voices.

Synopsis:
Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers. For instance every other head of lettuce or potato.

European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. As much as the annual turnover at Nestlé, the world´s largest food corporation. The food we throw away in Europe would be enough to feed all the hungry people in the world two times over.