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Charles McJilton Turns “Waste” into “Thanks” in Japan through Food Banking |
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| Charles, fluent in Japanese after living in Japan for over seventeen years, gave onboard lectures in both Japanese and English |
In 2002, the total amount of food aid donated throughout the world was approximately eight million tons. Meanwhile, in the same year the Japanese government reported over 21 million tons of food waste nationally. Charles McJilton, the founder of food banking in Japan and the head of Second Harvest Japan (2HJ), the first incorporated nonprofit food bank in Japan, explains simply how many companies dispose of food that people can still use. Through Second Harvest Japan, he works to redistribute some of this wasted food, providing safe and healthy food for those in need by allowing companies to donate food still safe for human consumption that they would otherwise have to pay to throw away. >>READ MORE |
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