Forum and Feast at the Centre for Alternative Technology was a roaring success! See our event page here and feast your eyes on these new photos form the day.

You can also read CAT’s write up on the CAT blog.

More resources such as video clips from the day will follow in the coming weeks.

This video, made by one our amazing volunteers Rosie Strickland, provides an insight by some of the people we met during our short stay at Swansea Community Farm. The music is by local musician Sarah Passmore, who provided live after dinner entertainment.

See more about the Swansea Feast here.

We will be in London this week in the form of a FILM, screening at the hideously exciting Experimental Food Society Spectacular! For those of you in London, pop down and have a gander….

The film was made by the wonderful Matt Barton

TiR are calling for your Food Issue Films to show as part of This is Rubbish’s Forum and Feast on November 5th at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT).

This is Rubbish are looking for suggestions of short films / animations that explore food waste issues such as:

1. the global issue; food supply chains / industrial agriculture…
2. the environmental issue; resource use / GHG impact…
3. the social issue; food equity / UK food banks / food poverty / lack of connection with our food…
4. alternatives and solutions; success stories / case studies / celebrating wonky vegetables / co-operative growing schemes…. Read on >

Here’s a disturbing statistic: UK households waste a third of all the food they buy. Or how about this: every year we produce 5.3 million tonnes of avoidable food waste.

This picture – in which we waste £12 billion each year – is a particularly concerning one in the current age of austerity and deepening environmental concern.

Thankfully, there’s inspiring work being done by the like of Fare Share, FoodCycle, and Food Not Bombs. These three groups share a common ethos: that food headed toward landfill can be put to good use, feeding those in need, providing opportunities for volunteer cooks to build skills, and to engender community spirit.

Yet, while it’s heartening to think that we’re combating the issue of food waste by redistributing what’s left unwanted, it’s worth considering that what can be found out the back of a supermarket isn’t representative of the large-scale losses the workings of the food industry cause. Read on >

Love Food Hate Wate
UK households throw away an estimated third of all the food they buy. Love Food Hate Waste helps individuals make changes to reduce the amount of wasted food – there’s tips for rescuing wilting produce, recipes for leftovers, and information on getting portion sizes spot on

FoodCycle
Tackling wasted food and food poverty while encouraging volunteering, FoodCycle supports communities to collect surplus food and cook meals which are served to those in need.

WRAP
The Waste and Resources Action Programme assists different groups – from local authorities to the retail supply chain – in working toward a world without waste. Read on >

Digest information by day in the food waste forum, and dine in style by evening at This is Rubbish’s “Feast” finale.

Forum and Feast is the grand finale of This is Rubbish’s successful Wales wide tour of food waste feasts this summer, and will be aimed at environment and food waste interested individuals and groups. Working in collaboration with The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), it will take place at CAT’s innovative and beautiful low carbon WISE building, the Welsh Institute for sustainable education.

The event promises an in depth look at the causes and solutions of food waste with a range of experts including Dr Andy Rees; Head of Waste Strategy, Welsh Assembly Government, Dr Adrian Morley; Research Associate at Business Relationship, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Emma Marsh; Head of WRAP’s Love Food Hate Waste campaign, and Professor Martin Caraher, Reader in food and health policy at the dept of Health Management and Food Policy at City University.  The forum, an engaging program of panel discussions, workshops, complimentary lunch, film screenings and exhibition (9.30am – 6.30pm), will be followed by an exceptional evening Feast; a three course sumptuous supper made form food that otherwise would’ve been wasted, served at a candle lit table, accompanied live music and original entertainment from troubadour folk band Bard (7.00 – 10pm). Full program details here. Read on >

In collaboration with Pontoi Arts, and the Open Arts Festival, TiR and Bycicology took to the streets handing out rejected apples. Each apple invited the unsuspecting crowd to the visiting Luminarium, for a day of activities and games with apples of all shapes, sizes and creed.

See event page.

As part of ‘Eating Green’ TiR salvaged unsold and unwanted fruits from a Cardiff wholesaler and took them to Chapter Arts Centre where they ran food sculpture workshops and gave out smoothies made from the bike powered TiR skip.

See event page.