In Japan, food products have deadlines within which they should be shipped to stores. Products that miss these delivery deadlines get discarded although they are still well within their ‘best by’ dates. To combat this problem of food waste, Nestle Japan and startup Minatoku have worked together to install vending machines which sell food products like KitKat and Nescafe which are past their delivery date but still perfectly consumable.
Our resident news anchor helps you to understand the two ways in which food waste is mainly created in Japan, and the various measures the country is taking to reduce food waste.
- Summary 食品ロス問題OP
- What is food waste and how is it created? 食品ロスとは
- The environmental impact of food waste なぜ食品ロスを削減する必要がある？
- What is Japan doing to combat food waste?日本の食品ロス対策
- Conclusionまとめ
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Watch the news video with Japanese transcript here!
https://perapera.ai/watch/youtube-qvG2Jdj4v_k
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This podcast episode is best listened to in conjunction with the following news video from FNN Prime Online.
ネスレ 食品ロス削減の無人販売機 出荷できない「キットカット」など
https://youtu.be/qvG2Jdj4v_k
FNN Prime Online YouTube Channel
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