2021/11/30

In the “Niji’iro Marché Special!” event held in the Kyoto City Shimogyo Junior High School on Saturday, November 20th, seven students of the Department of Global Tourism performed a picture card storytelling to address the issue of food waste.

The visual narrative was organized by the Food Waste Reduction Project Team which began this April, gaining the support of the Daimaru Kyoto department store and the Shutoku Children’s Center. To local children and their guardians who gathered to listen, students addressed the escalating issue of food waste through picture cards and narration. They also explained the importance of cleaning your plate by giving quizzes on the amount of food waste in households and encouraging consumers to buy products with earlier best-before and use-by dates. The children in the audience seemed to enjoy the show, raising their hands with excitement when they knew the answers.

The leader of the team, 3rd-year student Keito Tanaka of Department of Global Tourism, said smilingly, “It was a good experience to think about the issue of food waste with the local community. Today was a day full of surprises and findings, seeing how children are clearly aware that they should not waste food.”

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