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00:00 Along with the preparation of the past few days,
00:04 the food waste is also increasing.
00:09 But for Lola Corazon, 61 years old,
00:13 it's a blessing.
00:15 In the last 4 years,
00:18 the family has been looking for food
00:21 from different fast food and restaurants.
00:24 [Music]
00:29 [Sound of a tractor]
00:46 After a long search,
00:48 they have collected half of the bag of rice.
00:52 [Music]
00:54 Even though he hasn't arrived home yet,
00:57 Jerry Boy, a 11-year-old boy,
00:59 has already visited him.
01:01 [Sound of a tractor]
01:04 When he arrived home,
01:06 Jerry Boy opened the bag of rice.
01:09 [Sound of a tractor]
01:11 Because of the hunger that morning,
01:13 Jerry Boy couldn't wash the leftover food,
01:17 like fried chicken.
01:20 He also ate the leftover food.
01:22 What can we do to make it clean?
01:25 So, we can eat it.
01:28 How can we know if it's clean?
01:30 There are other ways.
01:33 It smells really good.
01:35 If it's not clean, we can't eat it.
01:38 It's clean.
01:40 So, those are the ones you have chosen.
01:43 Yes.
01:46 If it's not clean,
01:48 we can't eat it.
01:50 We have to put it in the bag.
01:52 [Sound of a tractor]
01:54 Yes.
01:56 I'm working hard to provide for my grandchildren.
02:01 I'm always thinking about what to do.
02:04 I'm working hard to provide for them.
02:08 Because they are their parents.
02:11 They are also eating.
02:13 They don't want to ask for anything.
02:15 It's really hard for us.
02:16 [Sound of a tractor]
02:18 After eating the leftover chicken,
02:24 Grandma Corazon gave the bread she saw to her grandchildren.
02:28 But you can see that the bread has already expired.
02:38 I'm worried because it's small.
02:42 I can't see it.
02:44 If it's not sour, it's not sour.
02:47 It's sweet.
02:49 It's sweet.
02:51 Where are you going to bring it?
02:58 What do you want to do?
03:00 Sell it.
03:02 Sell it?
03:04 Sell it.
03:13 Jerry Boy brought the leftover bread to the store of the bread vendor, Annabel Lazaro.
03:20 Grandma Corazon paid 20 pesos for the bread she collected.
03:29 Annabel is preparing to cook.
03:38 What kind of dishes are you making?
03:42 Fried food.
03:44 We are washing the food.
03:47 Because we are eating.
03:53 I told them that I'm tired.
03:56 I'm going to stay at home.
03:58 At first?
04:00 I told them that I have tissues.
04:02 I told them that I'm going to wash the food.
04:04 Even if I'm left behind, I'm happy to go home.
04:08 I'm going to clean up.
04:11 We are not sick.
04:12 Because if someone is sick, they complain to us.
04:18 Annabel's customers are waiting for her to finish cooking.
04:25 The previous dish was Candireta, Adobo, and Inasal.
04:38 I'm making Sambal, Tente, and Gimuse.
04:41 I'm not making anything for Corazon.
04:43 I'm just making Tanchang.
04:45 You're making a lot.
04:47 I'm making a lot.
04:49 My store is cheap.
04:51 It's delicious to make.
04:54 For me, I admit that this is delicious.
04:59 But I don't think about it anymore.
05:03 I don't even cook.
05:06 I'm not protecting my store.
05:07 If I clean it up, I might die.
05:10 Jerry also bought 10 pesos worth of Adobong Pagpal.
05:16 This is what they will be serving for lunch.
05:19 What can we earn?
05:24 We just need to eat.
05:27 We don't make money from one or two days of cooking.
05:33 We're just tired of it.
05:36 We just need to buy food.
05:39 If we don't have money, we'll just go back to cooking.
05:43 For many people who are hungry, like Jerry Boy,
05:52 the problem of food waste in the Philippines is a big problem.
05:55 It happens from production to consumption of food.
06:00 In Benguet, which is considered a vegetable basket in the Philippines,
06:04 tons of vegetables are thrown away after not passing the quality control.
06:09 Other vegetables are being rotten due to a lack of storage facility.
06:14 In production level, we have more losses than we can study.
06:21 Just like rice, when we harvest rice,
06:27 we have losses due to manual or mechanization or non-modernized equipment.
06:32 We have a lot of losses.
06:34 According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute or FNRI,
06:40 in 2015, 1,212 metric tons of rice were wasted.
06:46 This is equivalent to 24,240 sacks or baskets of rice wasted every day.
06:54 In one study, 1,717 metric tons of plate waste were collected
07:00 or the leftover food in 2015.
07:03 This is equivalent to 95 dump trucks of plate waste per day.
07:08 In order to solve the problem of food waste and the increasing number of people who are hungry,
07:14 the Senate and the House of Representatives passed a bill on reducing food waste
07:19 through Food Donation and Food Waste Recycling or Food Waste Reduction Act.
07:24 This will allow the companies to give surplus food to those who are called food insecure or people who lack food.
07:33 Under the bill, the owner of the establishment will choose and will separate the food that can be eaten.
07:43 If the food is saved, it will be given to accredited food banks that are targeted by the DSWD.
07:50 As of now, two versions of the Food Waste Reduction Act are still in force in Congress.
07:57 At 7 in the morning, we will be with Franz and Paul,
08:10 members of the non-government organization, "Rice Against Hunger Philippines" to Divisoria.
08:15 Their mission is to collect the waste and the vegetables in the market.
08:23 The vegetables that they will ask for will be brought to their food banks in Tondo, Manila.
08:28 There are vegetables, for example cabbage,
08:31 for example, there are insect bites, actually, it is safer because it means that if there are insect bites, there is no pesticide.
08:40 When we arrived at the place of the market, Ria was already prepared with the vegetables that will be given.
08:45 We will do the "lusaw".
08:48 What is "lusaw"?
08:50 It is a type of vegetables that is not yet ready to be used.
08:54 Okay. Why are you peeling and removing this?
08:58 This is the part that is not being sold, you are giving it to them.
09:04 While we were at the place, Ria, Franz and Paul were already giving their vegetables and vegetable trimmings.
09:12 Three large plastic containers were collected.
09:17 They were directed to the food bank to collect the vegetables.
09:23 I will be with Jomar Fleras, director of "Rice Against Hunger Philippines" to cover the food bank.
09:31 We can help them to reduce their expenses.
09:35 In disposing, right?
09:37 In disposing, there is a fee. They have professional companies that dispose here.
09:41 You just throw it in the garbage.
09:44 So it is a big thing that they can help people who are not hungry.
09:49 At the same time, we can also help them to reduce their expenses.
09:57 Like the vegetables, that came from Victoria, they cook it right away.
10:02 So they know how to re-engineer, repurpose the food.
10:07 So this is what we call "ugly fruits and vegetables" that they normally throw away and can still eat.
10:14 This morning, more than 200 children will be fed at the food bank.
10:20 They are among the poorest in the area.
10:24 We are the first in the barangay because they know who are the poor in the area.
10:29 In Tondo, from the daycare centers, we work upwards towards the family.
10:35 The whole household is taken care of and fed.
10:39 Some parents of the children are also volunteers at the food bank.
10:44 One of the volunteers is Cecilia Cama.
10:47 She has two children who are beneficiaries of the food bank.
10:51 How are you?
10:52 I'm okay. I'm not sick anymore.
10:54 Like my other child, who is in grade 6, she is here, so we are here as volunteers.
11:02 So in exchange, you get clean food, decent food.
11:05 Yes.
11:07 That's a good alternative, ma'am.
11:09 Compared to the times when you have to work hard.
11:12 Aside from the kitchen of the food bank, Jomar also showed us their storage room.
11:20 He is also taking back the products that were given by the food companies to them.
11:24 We can cook spaghetti, we can cook tosino, we can cook luncheon meat, corned beef.
11:34 The children like those.
11:37 So what we do is we are engineering them to make them healthier.
11:42 The processed food that is close to their expiration date, are those your rescued food?
11:48 Basically, all the food that's meant for our destruction.
11:52 The canned food is included, right?
11:54 Yes, the canned food is included.
11:56 They are ensuring that it is safe, clean, and that all the food they put here can be eaten.
12:04 Many people donate to us, they are just surplus.
12:09 Like this one?
12:11 Yes, just surplus.
12:14 We are individuals that come here, they bring rice bags, sugar.
12:18 That is expiry, we don't accept it.
12:20 After preparing the vegetables that were taken from the market, the volunteers started cooking.
12:27 The vegetables are washed and accompanied by a sandinas.
12:42 At 11 in the morning, the children arrived.
12:44 There are two batches of students that go to the food bank.
13:00 First, the children who just came from school, they pass through here for lunch.
13:07 Second, the students who just came from school, they pass through here for lunch.
13:13 The food bank is also a beneficiary of Lola Lilia Ortillo and her two grandchildren, Joy and Resmah.
13:22 They go to the food bank everyday before going to school.
13:26 When your grandchildren pass through here, they pass through here, they have a place to stay.
13:31 Yes, that's a big thing.
13:34 Sometimes, we go in, the children are not yet here, they are still hungry.
13:39 Their father is not here yet, so that the children can eat.
13:43 We are not going to let them stay here.
13:45 We will wash them, we will wash them.
13:47 We will take them home.
13:49 Aside from the food bank here in Tondo,
13:52 there is another facility, the Rice Against Hunger in Taguig City.
13:58 They also impact rescued food or donation food.
14:03 Today, they donated pasta, oil, and biscuits to a few residents of Ususan.
14:10 This is donated, these are surplus, not near expiration.
14:15 According to Rice Against Hunger, it is a big help if food banks are added in the Philippines.
14:22 This can only be done if the government has a policy on the donation of food by various companies and establishments.
14:32 We are a part of a consultative group on the law in the Congress and the Senate.
14:39 One of our advocacy is that food waste or food surplus should be given to those in need,
14:50 and it should not be thrown away because about 30% of all food produced is wasted.
15:01 And this 30% is enough to meet the needs of all people who are hungry.
15:07 1.6 billion tons of food is wasted in the world every year.
15:16 In other countries, the government is doing something to reduce food waste.
15:25 In Hong Kong, we accompanied two overseas Filipino workers who are food collectors in a food establishment.
15:32 This is bread.
15:34 We donate for ourselves, so we can eat because we lost our jobs and we are given bread.
15:50 All food that cannot be sold is donated to NGOs like the shelter of some distressed OFWs,
15:57 which is also in accordance with the policies of the police in Hong Kong.
16:01 What food did you receive?
16:04 We received eggs, bread, sandwich, and salad.
16:12 For the rich, this is a snack but for us, it is our breakfast.
16:18 The government is also helping to reduce food waste in the Philippines.
16:23 They say that for the many people who are hungry in the Philippines,
16:32 they should not waste food.
16:36 It is true that there is food waste from production to eating.
16:44 Aside from the initiatives of various companies and NGOs,
16:47 it is important to start this for ourselves.
16:50 Think twice if you will throw away the food that you are eating.
16:56 It is also a big help if the police will be there to reduce food waste.
17:04 Until next Thursday, I am Jun Veneracion.
17:08 I am Mackie Pulido and this is what's on our Reporter's Notebook.
17:13 Reporter's Notebook.
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