tatiana from bornemann piece regular visits to the garbage dumps around cape town. she studied the wasteful lifestyle of many south africans and says changes urgently needed. every year the landfill alone receives thousands of tons of food waste it comes from restaurants factories and local farms. reus to make that a surge of food is dumped in south africa every year this has significant ecological impacts because all that food has compounded water and energy and from a climate change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful greenhouse gases both me thing and. russia has spent years looking at ways of reducing food waste here in the western cape he works for the regional department of agriculture from bollman has come to visit one of his projects which he believes could provide a model for the rest of the country. has managed to persuade farmers to donate their food surplus instead of plowing it back into the ground. clubbers farm is the collection point. 7 local farmers bring their excess produce here. you should see the quality is not thrown away food it is ex