Amazing Earth: Turn your leftover foods into something useful! (Online Exclusives)

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Here are some ideas to help manage your food waste. Come and check it out!

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00:00 Excessive eating is usually a waste

00:03 But there are ways to not waste food waste

00:07 Let's watch the amazing story

00:10 If you're on Tik Tok and Aerial Acrobatics of Calugo

00:23 It's probably going viral

00:27 Like this video about the waste that can be eaten

00:31 Before you get mad,

00:34 Let's look at the important information that I will show

00:39 Waste in food

00:43 During this pandemic, Filipinos became resourceful when it comes to food

00:48 Edible waste became a hot topic

00:53 Ingredients that we are used to throwing away

00:57 But can be used for other purposes

00:59 Like watermelon peel,

01:01 Crab's egg,

01:02 And pineapple's eyes

01:04 Once upon a time, a recipe went viral

01:07 Using the banana peel that is usually thrown away

01:10 It got 1.4 million views

01:15 Jane is an electronics and communications engineer

01:19 She is known as "Malolos Bulacan's very own kusinerang inginiera"

01:25 Her viral recipe went viral because the ingredients of her banana peel patty burger steak are simple

01:33 We will only use the skin of the banana peel

01:36 Don't include the skin of the banana peel

01:38 Because it is hard and has fiber

01:41 Next, we will boil it for 2-3 minutes

01:44 To remove the dirt

01:48 Jane will remove the excess water before she will peel the banana peel

01:53 She will grate the banana peel with garlic, onion,

01:57 2 eggs,

02:00 Salt, pepper, breadcrumbs, oyster sauce, and vinegar

02:05 I will put the banana peel directly on the breadcrumbs

02:11 So that it will be easier to form and shape

02:17 Then, we will put it inside the refrigerator

02:20 So that it will hold its shape and it will be easier to fry later

02:26 Mmm... It looks delicious

02:29 The 7 banana peel turned into 7 burger patties

02:34 We have a saying

02:41 "One man's trash is another man's treasure"

02:44 It can be yours, but it is very important to others

02:48 Just like leftover food

02:52 Food

02:54 The leftover food

02:56 Thousands of poor Filipinos, especially in Metro Manila, are relying on food as a means to survive

03:05 But did you know that not only in poor countries,

03:10 there are people who throw leftover food in the trash?

03:14 Even in America, there are many people who do that

03:19 This is called "Dumpster Diving"

03:24 As long as it can be saved, they will throw it

03:30 In Arlington, Texas, one of the biggest cities in America,

03:36 there is a registered nurse who started doing dumpster diving in 2019

03:42 She is a frontliner in the day

03:46 and a trash collector at night

03:50 But why does she do it?

03:54 Our exclusive interview will tell you

03:58 Many Filipinos dream of working in America

04:03 But we have a Filipino friend who is still a trash collector

04:10 Charity Joy Marks is a Filipino

04:14 After working in Saudi Arabia, she moved to America

04:18 I came to the US in 2013

04:22 My husband and I met in the Philippines

04:25 We met back in 2010 through some friends

04:29 We got married in 2013

04:30 We both have been working as nurses

04:33 and for a few years, we were working at the same hospital

04:35 Joy and Steve are not poor

04:39 They earn the same

04:42 But why did they choose to do dumpster diving?

04:45 I watch people who do it

04:49 and I told myself, "Why don't I try it?"

04:53 "Maybe I can learn something from dumpster diving"

04:56 We go there at night

04:58 It's like you're in a grocery store

05:00 It's very economical

05:02 I soak fruits and vegetables in vinegar water for 30 minutes

05:11 I wash the sealed containers with soap

05:16 The box was open, that's the only thing wrong with it

05:19 Beautiful, tasty, fresh

05:22 She's working for the dumpster

05:25 We've been arrested by the police a few times

05:28 They just ask what we do there

05:33 or if we do anything illegal there

05:36 These are the rotten fruits

05:39 Okay

05:40 And this is the rotten pineapple

05:46 These are the soft ones

05:52 But not everyone in Joy's family eats from the dumpster

05:56 Because they have their own vegetables

06:00 I plant string beans, alugbate, tomatoes, chili, and okra

06:07 According to the United Nations,

06:10 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year worldwide

06:15 We bring the excess food to the donation center

06:19 Some of it is donated to my friend

06:22 I do this until my body can take it

06:26 Because food and other waste are wasted

06:32 The next thing we'll talk about is mango and seaweed

06:41 I know what you're thinking

06:43 You're going to make a salad, right?

06:45 But sorry, that's not it

06:47 I'll feed you next time

06:49 If not, plastic

06:52 Can mango peel be made into plastic?

06:55 A young scientist,

06:58 Dencibel Montinola of Cebu,

07:00 saw a good opportunity

07:01 in the waste from mango peel

07:03 Can mango and seaweed peel be made into bioplastic?

07:07 How?

07:08 There are biopolymers from mango and seaweed

07:11 This is pectin and carrageenan

07:13 When these two are combined, it becomes bioplastic

07:18 According to Dencibel,

07:19 bioplastic is strong and flexible from mango and seaweed

07:23 And the best thing about it,

07:25 this is biodegradable

07:27 Even if you throw it, it will dissolve in water

07:30 Our oceans have a big problem with garbage

07:33 Dencibel's bioplastic is a way to reduce our use of non-dissolving plastics

07:40 I hope the time will come when plastic waste will be reduced

07:45 Amazing, right?

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