By Derek Markham, Source: Treehugger

Last summer, Greenfield cycled 4,700 miles across the US on a bamboo bicycle during his Off the Grid Across America bike tour, and he’s also gone a year without showering, pedaled across Iowa with no bike seat for his Stand Up for Sustainability tour, and biked from NYC to Boston using only water from leaky faucets (Drip by Drip tour) to highlight water conservation, so he’s no stranger to putting it all on the line for what he believes in.

Greenfield is now cycling across America on a bamboo bicycle during his Goodfluence tour, seeking to inspire Americans to help boost the sustainability movement, starting with their own lives. And along the way, he’s also finding that dumpsters, which most of us associate with being virtually untouchable, can be a viable source of food, not only for himself, but also for many others, and he’s drawing attention to what he calls Food Waste Fiascos.

According to Greenfield’s website, “1 in 7 Americans don’t have the food they need yet we are throwing away enough food to feed every hungry American five times over!”, but by changing the policies of grocery stores, drugstores, and other food-wasting businesses, this trend can be reversed by those businesses choosing to donate the food instead of trashing it.

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