After getting lost a few times using the tram my first couple days in Melbourne, I had the pleasure of accompanying Brad on his runs for OzHarvest , an organization that works to reduce food waste by redistributing food that would otherwise be thrown away to various charities across Melbourne. I wish I could provide you with a map of everywhere we went to pick up and drop of food, because we racked up quite a few miles between 8 and 4:30. One of the most important parts of a food system that is often forgotten is the end of product's lifecycle. In this case, it might be food items taken to patients in a hospital but which aren't consumed and left unopened, too-ripe mangoes in the produce section of Coles or Woolworths (known as the two biggest grocers in Australia), day-old pastries from a bakery, or browning bananas from Aldi. Having read many times about food waste in America (check out this article from Food Tank for some good insight into how much we ac...