Menu 5: After eating deliciously - Problems of food disposal | IT'S A TASTY WORLD - FOOD SCIENCE, NOW!

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Menu 5: After Eating Deliciously - Problems of Food Disposal

menu5Food is massively discarded, approx. 20 million tons a year only within Japan.
We will look at the practices of good resource utilization. What is most necessary is to reduce food waste.

Pigs eat and... (Eco feed)

Pigs eat and... (Eco feeding) menu5-1.jpg
Recycling leftover foods for feeding animals. Things which we throw away, pigs heartily eat! Thus, a new food source is created...

Cars run! (Ethanol production from food waste)

Cars run!
It is tough to get rid of raw garbage mixed with various other discarded items. If we would like to make full use of raw garbage as resource, it is much more efficient to use it to create fuel than to create electricity with heat from burning. We will introduce the cutting-edge technology that creates ethanol from raw garbage.

You can still eat it (Food bank)

You can still eat it (Food bank) menu5-3.jpg
We will introduce the engagement, which applies wasted food as products that cannot be sold for various reasons with no problems concerning quality or safety. What becomes most important is the "effort of not throwing things away."