你上周扔掉食物吗？

Discussion Questions

1.你上周扔掉食物了吗？
Have you thrown away food in the last week?
2.你会查看保质期吗？
Do you observe the best-before date?
3.食物浪费是不是太多了？
Is there too much food waste?
4.你有没有试过‘翻垃圾箱’？你会这样做吗？还是这仅仅是嬉皮士的事？
Have you ever done 'dumpster diving'? Would you do it? Or is that just something for hippies?
5.你家乡的情况怎样？
How is it in your home country?
6.你如何减少扔掉的食物量？
How can you reduce the amount of food thrown away?
7.你会吃剩菜吗？
Do you eat leftovers?
8.超市应该要求捐赠未售出的食物而不是扔掉吗？
Should supermarkets be required to donate unsold food instead of throwing it away?
9.有些超市不销售包装食品 - 你必须自带罐子等。这个想法会流行吗？
There are supermarkets where nothing is sold in packaging - you have to bring your own jars etc. Will this idea catch on?
10.消费者在减少食物浪费中扮演什么角色？
What role do consumers play in reducing food waste?

食物浪费 (shíwù làngfèi) - food waste

扔掉 (rēngdiào) - to throw away

过期的 (guòqī de) - expired

保质期 (bǎozhìqī) - expiry date

大约 (dàyuē) - roughly

一次性包装 (yīcìxìng bāozhuāng) - single-use packaging

数量 (shùliàng) - the quantity/amount

剩菜 (shèngcài) - leftovers (left over food)

可持续发展概念 (kěchíxù fāzhǎn gàiniàn) - concept of sustainability

重复使用 (chóngfù shǐyòng) - reuse

避免食物浪费很重要。

It's important to avoid food waste.

大多数食物浪费发生在家庭中。

Most food waste occurs in households.

很多人不知道如何创造性地重复利用剩菜。

Many people do not know how to creatively reuse leftovers.

在某些国家，有挽救食物的倡议。

In some countries, there are initiatives to save food.

我们应该更好地利用我们拥有的资源。

We should make better use of the resources we have.