st. george. led double rejection. of talks about the country's future the national transitional council said it wants to see him in jail and noted the negotiating table. bloodshed in syria continues despite promises of press reforms with accidents claiming at least five people were killed over the weekend they are agreed has become the latest international body to pressure president assad to end the violence. and the ultimate retreat of russian company plans to open the first of a space hotel in just five years it will cost eventually tourists one million dollars to enjoy the out of this world the home of the orbital pleasure dome. up next a special report on the competitors in america trying to cut the huge amounts of food waste in the country and how they're happy to forage through cash trying to do

. every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food. two hundred sixty three million pounds a day. eleven million pounds an hour. three thousand pounds a second. on . her.

place. to. sleep. longer. food bowl. comes nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even our trash cans are full of the food you just have to go get it. so there are three basic rules to dumpster dive rule number one never take more

than you need. unless you find it if your rule number two the first one is so the dumpster has first did. it you've always got to share and rule number three leave it cleaner than usual and you. found it before you leave it cleaner and you found that the right it's an unusual night in l.a. because it's it's freezing outside freezing for l.a. so i think it's you know forty three to forty five degrees which is good because it keeps all the meat and stuff cold is but. there's. no antibiotics ever no added hormones ever pre-arrange good meat all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked in even get all over the other ones just thrown all the way is what they're doing with everything they have bags of avocados one goes bad they threw in the entire bag of avocados out apples

oranges everything is tossed in it for no good reason they're all good these are all good exe look not and cheese from the german alps. much better for the cops than i ever have for her thirty two years ago and we have clearly like the upper class makes me crazy right. now i'm sick and stuff but i only take stuff that's noble by. what doesn't he only makes you stronger. and getting meat for my own consumption. for my baby showers more for the dumpster at one am this morning. at three pm this afternoon on the grill. i think i'm going to have a pretty healthy. time making a public announcements every once i exactly with it i'm just like we wouldn't tell

him that we went to montserrat see get there but i say most of our friends are aware of the fact that you get all of it on stern and i think it's pretty cool. that. living off the ways. of the consumer is in the american. league. so we got. a lot of praise and spent most. of my washrooms.

and then we're going to have thank you x. the dumpster stuff is really great. because there's such a large quantity of it it can turn into a lot of work so. far out as stuff clean every day and i know there's like and i have reason and then i never watched raising cattle and it's not having to deal with it it's just that a lot of more work than just one universe is serving up exactly you know you need fifteen or twenty i could just like this occasionally wake up in the morning and kind of trend to clean up that follows some survives where it's going to kill me she's going to wake up in the morning on the streets could be. rotting in my kitchen at. the federal level of a strawberry even though we still had to buy groceries we really began living off food cold from the trash. eating food out of dumpsters is repulsive to most people

but there's a certain beauty seen garbage transformed into a meal with friends and better meals than we could ever afford to buy especially when our friend alfonzo a professional chef would cook up gore made dishes from food we had just scrounge out of dumpsters look at hallowed to try to the start of. a pretty decent this. i don't think is about the fish it's good it's simple the chicken was looking a little funky a little like purplish and food makes up about twenty percent of the landfill waste which means we're feeding our landfills as much as we're feeding our country so instead of rotting underground acts beneath the earth and producing harmful methane gas this garbage was feeding my family and friends and doing it in style. well this will be blood orange and onion salad. without trying to show on.

salmon stuff with feta cheese in spinach risk you from your local dumpster hat and a beautiful blue orange futurist purple. jake. is made from and one doesn't dumpster egg whites instructors are one hundred percent. hamster. delicious. i'm strictly law it's. the sound myself wandering through trader joe's hoping for certain items to be waiting for me in the dumpster that night i got excited when i saw a bad tomato in a pack of four or meat that had turned the slightest shade of brown anything dated for the next day would most likely be in the dumpster even though the sell by best

buy dates don't mean the food is bad just overly cautious states for absolute freshness and protection from possible lawsuits i dreaded more lock dumpsters which seem to be a growing trend to keep dumpster divers out and ensure total waste. this is the trader joe's we've been out many many many times and i locked it so the food can rot inside the dumpster sort of people getting it that's that's smart. i don't know ira i don't even want to take all this good comments like. i'm tired of it there's. there's too much we all they took as much because we didn't want to waste but i did it's like almost two in the morning and. i don't have anywhere to put it even though i would be breaking rule number one i decided to buy

a freezer for all the excess food we rarely saw other divers around town so i knew that most of the discarded food was ending up in landfills i had to save as much of it as i could so many. like i live and book for a freezer they just plug it in but that's right ok. and i would need your. place here yes. thank you anyway we got in the garage for free for free donated. and just over a week of nightly diving we had a year's supply of meat. still the freezers totally filled up there's just. a little layer of some bread and stuff.

just not because i didn't find enough meat just because. or just tired of me you get kind of picky thank you don't want a lot of the same thing so ours are really nice for me to. rescuing food from the dumpster was straight for the few of us doing it but it felt too self-serving to leave it at that the question nagged me why is all this food being thrown out and not given to people who need it. i decided to ask the grocery stores. ok so here we are a trader joe's saturday afternoon i'm going to go in and talk to them because i went to their website and their website says that they prefer to talk face to face

i was i'm on my life on and on and. you know right now none of the stores know he's going to give me the card for the place already called which refutes so basically it's impossible to talk to anybody on camera i mean even off camera they wouldn't discuss details of the phone on which. we. go they won't talk to me company policy no interviews no. no interview call this guy i got the card. but the number for the main office but she said she'll see a pallet and on that pallet are four trash cans and those trash cans are all filled with meat and all of that gets thrown away were here. comes through that has a lot gave another rule that i've been told is never penetrate into something that

is not yours it's not mine if they don't open it and they don't they don't want me to get into it so it's a long long. but the gate is this i can respect that because what if they want this one because there's back stock and they don't want people getting into the news next i'm going. on don't. i don't understand how anyone could get upset for you stealing from. a week there's the dad was a silly dad was a little bit of she if you're still going to waste you know this is something not. it's been discarded and just wants to be forgotten about you when you take a check that out. i don't see how that can be conceived just be criminal in any way but seriously do you not think that you just let it like rot i mean minds have been shipped up from mexico like cheese from germany and meat from.

chile i mean you just let it ride because of the plans. would you get it. it's kind of. like get back to your i can't i'm on a fast. i believe that that dumpster diving to civil disobedience is nonviolent civil disobedience because i believe in what i'm doing i believe it's right and i'm willing to break the law and i don't believe i don't i take it seriously to break. well i believe it's just i will be doing it if i get caught or arrested i should be proud to say rested for even somebody is waste i think it's just i think it's just i'm unwilling to pay the consequences for that i do it openly when when when they catch me or people come i shake their hand and tell them what i'm doing and say where i'm from i still want to do it and most of the time

they're very from. the next day. it is technically trespassing and it is against. your guys right now. that is where the conflict comes it is a conflict between what i believe is just and what isn't legal and this life believe is it's more just. going into the store and buying stuff with money but rather this is a totally different and outside the system way of living.

the more stores i visited in phone calls i made the more silencing resistance i received. meanwhile i was attempting to educate myself and kept running into a name in almost every article i read timothy jones dr jones was former head of the garbage project at the university of arizona and probably one of the world's most knowledgeable people on waste and his sixteen years with the project dr jones found that what we throw out and it's nearly unrestricted quantity in variety reveals a lot about us as a society i gave him a call the next part of the country where the commercial although there is really the media try. to bluff if not even a conference just about what you think a lot and i'm not even down to put faith in god the whole thought is there if you're not careful. would you. do it for the life because quite to be able to create it and we've lost but it's more prestigious

a property to flog that automobile you know fifty percent of all the food gets up a credit card will never make it to somebody if you waste half that all of the production that went into it this way right so all that to transport. the fertilizers the increased taxation for performing that everything else that if we were to cut our food waffle at half we would probably be that overall place right. after my conversation with i'm with you jones and i went to the l.a. food bank the second largest of its kind in the country since nearly all donated food from grocery stores goes through the food bank i hope to get

a better understanding of the situation. located in the heart of downtown l.a. near one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the world the infamous skid row i couldn't help thinking about all this wasted food in relationship to hungry people in my own city. los angeles county we have a population of ten million people roughly one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles times roughly just over a million people once angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal's going to come from so los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred charitable agency sites we reach about six hundred seventy four thousand of those people so there are still you know over a third of those people that we're not reaching so that's that's how big the problem is here even if we bank on our size hundred thousand square foot facility distributing thirty four thirty five million pounds a year still not reaching the demand here in l.a. county it's a big problem here in america where you do have a kind of food and resources available that you still have people falling through

the cracks and that should happen in this country we export billions of pounds of food to other countries too on top of what we keep ear and we're still not making food available to everybody here in america which is. the sad state of affairs is that.

these vast empires of food be part of the solution. many of them already work almost every major grocery stores on the l.a. food banks list of donors the question is could they do more and from the amount of food thrown into dumpsters every night the answer is yes. darryn told me that the l.a. food bank is short eleven million pounds of food every year if the entire country throws out ninety six billion pounds of food every year what about just los angeles county i'm going to use this whipped cream i got out of the dumpster the other night to do the math to see how much food l.a. county throws away every year every year in l.a. county we throw away twenty four billion pounds of trash. according to the e.p.a.

twelve percent of that is food waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighteen million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste would equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. food waste happens on all levels of production and consumption on farms in transit in the making of highly produced foods in grocery stores in restaurants and in our homes or grocery stores are the obvious choice for redirecting wasted food to hungry people. i decided to go to the trader joe's headquarters since it's only a fifteen minute drive from my house but i was a bearded mangy dumpster diver and thought i'd better clean up before talking with sophisticated businesspeople about policy changes in their companies a haircut in the shave in the time i did absolutely nothing for me we didn't have

a camera rolling or anything we just walked in and i asked to speak with someone and they said we're going to have to ask you to leave because you can't be asking questions about trader joe's i can write a letter to the c.e.o. of trader joe's which i will do for pick on trader joe's because they happen to be the best store to dumpster dive so. we know we've pulled a lot of food out of their dumpsters a particular a still couldn't believe that there were actually hungry people in the united states the richest country in the world so we stopped by the regional offices of bread for the world an organization working through political means to and global hunger there are hungry people in the u.s. i'd say there are about thirty five and a half million people in the u.s. who are food insecure that's a silly first let's say thirty five and a half million people in the u.s. don't know where their next meal is coming from. but about people in the us are

actually hungry to find out of saying they just. think if. you count to ninety six billion. numbers in the millions and billions are hard to imagine and can feel meaningless without a way to picture them so what does ninety six billion pounds of food look like it's

impossible to actually measure ninety six billion pounds of food waste because of the endless variables in size and weight one pound of steak takes up less space than one pound of bread but you have to look at the food behind the food they interact losses through feed grains used to produce meat a cow which should be eating grass in the first place consume seven pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat so a pound of wasted meat actually represents seven pounds of food waste. but if we stick to the lower estimate of ninety six billion pounds what does that amount of food look like on a freight train. the average boxcar can hold up to two hundred eleven thousand pounds of cargo if you filled each one to capacity you would need four hundred fifty three thousand two hundred fifty seven box cars that's a train long enough to stretch from los angeles to new york city and all the way

back. what if all this food with an unloaded in fed to pay exists will like they used to do in the old days with from scraps a three pound piglet needs an average of thirty pounds of food per week to reach its massive two hundred sixty five pounds lighter weight in five months redirecting our annual food waste into grateful pigs mouths would raise one hundred twenty million piglets and the massive hogs producing enough meat to give everyone on the planet three pounds of pork. but meat is costly to produce both financially and for the environment and at two hundred twenty two pounds of meat per person per year in the us we have far exceeded what is healthy and sustainable for the planet. so instead what would ninety six billion pounds of wheat look like on average one acre produces forty bushels of wheat each bushel weighing sixty pounds so one acre

equals twenty four hundred pounds of wheat putting our annual food waste into acres of wheat with total forty million acres that's a wheat field nearly the size of the state of oklahoma enough wheat to feed everyone on the planet three one pound loaves of bread her day for an entire week. or maybe a better way to picture how much food we waste would be to travel just six hundred miles from our southern shores to the tiny country of haiti. with our ninety six billion pounds of food waste the entire country of haiti could be fed for five years or more. here in the poorest country in the western hemisphere twenty five percent of children are chronically malnourished. reduced to eating mud cakes made from dirt salt vegetable shortening in filthy water to curb their hunger pangs unfortunately we can't simply put our wasted food on a boat and feed eighty. and that's not what haiti needs to become whole again.

but the contrast of our excess and their lack exist side by side as with the needy and marginalized in our own wealthy country if nothing more it is an unsettling reality that calls into question our flippancy with food waste. and in spite of the complexities around in food production consumption and waste we can no doubt eliminate both food waste and hunger in the united states as a start while looking more seriously at the dire needs of neighbors around the globe.

all. wealthy british style. sometimes. market fine.