The issue of food waste is increasingly recognised as a severe global problem, with some 1.3bn tonnes of food produced for human consumption lost each year. Celebrity chef Narda Lepes has launched several youtube videos in order to advise on different ways to cut down on food waste and loss. “At the start the idea was for the social fridge to stock the food we no longer needed as a business. It’s a simply a fridge.” Yet he states the the social fridge aims to go as far as possible, “to distribute social fridges as we receive them. In Ciudadela, a gritty suburb just outside the capital, a social fridge is now operating outside a school.

Source: The Argentina Independent July 14, 2016 18:00 UTC