Awards

• Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2009
• Shortlisted for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2009.
• Shortlisted for John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2009.

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Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge. --John Preston

Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue. --Mark Knoblauch

Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue. -- Mark Knoblauch

An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin. Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep. Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat.--Tom Standage This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever.--Paul Kingsnorth Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.--John Preston Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue.--Mark Knoblauch This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisive--the sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky.--Simon Fairlie Jaw-dropping ...compelling--a must-read... Stuart has an unanswerable case.--Bee Wilson The world faces incredibly difficult challenges--we simply can't afford the kind of crazy waste Tristram Stuart uncovers and describes in this beautifully reported work. It's nauseating in places, but ultimately hopeful: if we got serious about preventing this waste, we might just find the margin we need to deal with our biggest problems.--Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy Book of the Week: Stuart's book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.

Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.--John Preston

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Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspapers on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution—‘magnificently detailed and wide-ranging’ (New Yorker)—was published in 2007, and Waste in 2009. A graduate of Cambridge University, he lives in England, where he rears pigs, chickens and bees.

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