Chase Meals no longer desired

The Food We Waste at Wheaton

I was dining in Chase with my friends, and as I looked around the table, I was shocked at how much food we were wasting. All of the dishes in the image above are meals my friends had tried and no longer wanted to eat even though there was still a significant amount of food leftover. I have just arrived back on the Wheaton campus from studying abroad in South Africa, and in the dining hall there, we were given our food already distributed in specific portions due to the fact that the university could not afford to waste. Needless to say, being back in the Wheaton dining halls has been quite shocking seeing how much food our students waste and push aside, when for 5 months I was in a country where the majority could not afford to waste, and many would be grateful to have the food we push aside. I am not sure how as a community we would address/improve this here at Wheaton, it is just a thought that has come to my mind during my recent days here.