Waste Not, Want Not
“More?” asked Oliver as he held up his empty bowl. But there was no “more” for the little orphan boy from Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, only the scowl(不悦之色) of Mr. Bumble, the mean man in charge of the orphanage. In the 18th-century England, a full stomach was only for the rich, not for poor orphans
Three hundred years later, it is hard to imagine anyone being hungry. We live in a time
Most waste food is in the form of fruits and vegetables
One supermarket chain in China, however, is aiming to solve the problem of wastage and high prices by going digital. Freshippo, owned by the Internet giant Alibaba, lets customers use their smartphones to shop. With the Freshippo app, they can scan and instantly pay for the products put in their shopping carts. This allows the management
Although Freshippo is taking steps to respond to the food waste crisis, there is another problem that has to be addressed: our overall attitude toward food. We may be taking
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