00:00First and foremost we're a community fridge so anyone can come and pick up the surplus
00:07food and then to make it more sustainable we had the cafe so we do like a small amount
00:17for like tea, coffee, toast if people want it.
00:22No one likes wasting food but most of us can put our hands up and say we've probably left
00:26those peppers in the veg drawer a bit too long or forgot about something at the back
00:29of the cupboard. It's easily done, when you look across the whole of Wales it can seriously
00:34add up. Supermarkets are no different to all of us and thousands of kilos of wasted food
00:39gets thrown out at shops, restaurants and our homes every year. Tasty Not Wasty is hoping
00:44to put an end to all of that as best they can and are trying to give the food that might
00:48have otherwise been wasted back and give us an opportunity to waste as little food as possible.
00:54Sabrina saw how much was being wasted and wanted to do something about it.
00:59It was just me at the start and then we had to have a small grant when we were first incorporated
01:06from the council and that allowed me to get insurance to allow me to have other volunteers
01:14to join me. We only had like one or two at the beginning and then now it's like 35 a week.
01:25Tasty Not Wasty are far from the only community fridge but Sabrina says they have a particular
01:31focus not necessarily on feeding those in need but the waste element itself. The food
01:36is all edible and cookable but not sellable so it just makes sense to make sure it gets
01:41used. Everyone does it slightly different but we very much are dear to what Neighbally
01:49and Fairshare say where we can't charge for the food and we like people to have autonomy
01:57so we like people to pick up their own food and choose for themselves. We don't just hand
02:03them a bag of food because it might just, that's like waste transference, they'll just take
02:08it home and then waste it in their own home. Sabrina has recently been awarded a British
02:13Empire Medal and when asked about how proud she is of the achievement, Sabrina of course
02:17could only talk about the dedication and hard work of her volunteers.
02:21I'm very, you know, I'm very happy to get it but I'm very proud of the volunteers that I've
02:27got because they've really made Tasty Not Wasty what it is and they have really pushed it forward
02:37and every time that someone in the community has an idea of what we can do to help they really
02:44try to help them the best they can so it really helps the community come together. So yeah, it's
02:51really, yeah, I'm just really proud of the volunteers and grateful to be honoured with a BEM.
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