DISCUSSION: WEEK 12

The author compares the amount of waste from the first audit to that from days with no trays. Leckie, the author, realized that the latter produced 2 to 3 ounces per individual down from 5 to 6 ounces. The findings were impressive to the author, but he was unsure about what to do with the information. During the summer, he raised the tray less idea in a brainstorming session to cut waste in a national gathering. Leckie writes that so many people in the gathering agreed that removing waste would reduce waste, but they could not access college administrators to play along.

The second statistical evidence from the book is where the author says how students save money by standing in certain places and eat leftovers of the board-paying classmates. The author says this is an established custom and the students who have meal plans drop off uneaten meals at a certain table near the dish return and include the foods that students did not like or could not finish. To them, they consider that as a form of recycling. Saving money and not avoiding waste is the main motivation of the scroungers and the practice has helped in the minimization of discarded food.

The third statistical evidence from the book is where the author talks about the rechanneling of food. He believes that freeganism interests him because he has seen how edible food is thrown out. He talks about how food is tossed in supermarkets and at times, it made it harder by paying the full price of the produce. The author also has, at some point, experienced the freegan moments. He acquired bagels and salvaged some bell peppers from a farmer’s market compost box. The bagels were sealed, but he still wanted to convince the store to donate such foods. The act would have made his employers mad and he could be fired, but it didn’t work because the store wasn’t in a friendly dumpster setting.

The evidence is deceptive because I am not sure if the audit was true. There is no place where the author tells us where we can get evidence about the performed audit. So many students have pride and it isn’t easy to see them eating leftovers in schools. There are so many measures that can be taken to ensure they are well-fed, unlike allowing the student to take leftovers from their fellow students. Human character is well known and it will be difficult for an individual to buy food and throw it away or donate it. With the tough financial times, so many people won’t agree with that action.