Nearly half of the food produced in America is thrown out. Even worse is that 10% of the population do not meet their daily nutritional requirements. Can one live on food rejected by a system based on wastage? Just this is what Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin set out to prove with a 6-month experiment in which they gained several pounds and saved about US$ 20,000 by collecting products near or after sell-by date, damaged or mislabeled products.
