Last weekend I was back in Missoula Montana to talk a bit about my project 'Garbage Galore'. It is currently showing at Zoo Town Brew in Missoula. Garbage Galore is an ongoing project I am doing about garbage - food waste to be more specific. I am deeply fascinated by the amount of food we waste. So one August morning last year I decided to do some dumpster diving at the apartment building I was living in in Missoula. It was quite shocking what I found, tomatoes, juices, ice cream, left overs, bananas, lettuce still wrapped in the plastic it came in from the grocery store. I arranged it all on plates - washed it, cut it - made it look good - and photographed it. Did you know that in America 27% of all food produced for consumption goes straight to to waste? I repeated the procedure when I was in Kabul in December - and the difference in what I was able to find in the garbage tells the story! In Missoula I spent half a morning doing this... In Kabul it took several days and I had to go to several different garbage piles in the City to get enough food waste to make my plates up.
That night in Missoula at Zoo Town Brew they also showed this movie - The Story of Stuff. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. I would definitely say it is worth taking 20 minutes out of your life to watch this movie.
