3 stars
Serves as a nice overview of food-related waste. The book goes through the food production system, pointing out various waste problems along the way. This includes waste at the farm, in manufacturing, in supermarkets and stores, in restaurants, and at home as well as food packaging waste.
Presented in an easy-to-understand format, the book provides a lot of information in a relatively compact package. I found the different innovations to prevent food waste and upcycle food products especially interesting.
For the most part, the book reads like a lit review, with various statistics listed without much elaboration. There were points I wished it had gone into more detail as it skims over some related problems, but overall it works well as an introduction to thinking more critically about food waste.
Because it was first published in 2020, some of the information is a bit dated. The information also spans the globe and jumps from one country to the next within the same paragraph. This gives a good overview but doesn’t provide a full picture of any one place and makes it a little hard to compare different areas.
A nice overview. Gets a little repetitive at times, but has a lot of interesting information.