I had a very big eye opening experience as a kid

This is going to sound gross, but it’s opened my eyes when I was a kid.

In elementary school when everyone else went to go play on the field and all the teachers and what not were gone; I stayed behind at the lunch tables.
I decided to dig through the trash. Aside from empty wrappers and mostly eaten food, I would pull out unopened bags of chips, candy, cookies. Half eaten sandwiches. Things that only had two bites taken out of it. Sandwich bags of grapes and what not. Even healthy food that kids didn’t want to eat was tossed. I mean out of one trash can I pulled out enough to feed a at least 3 different families. There was 15 more trash cans.
This opened my eyes. This all this stuff that was thrown away could have fed someone. I mean this could have been given away to kids who didn’t have something to eat, but was just tossed out. It amazed me how much was thrown out and no longer “good” when it was all in all still good.
You can tell kids and people over and over about the kids starving. Or that there’s a lot of waste in food. But I personally didn’t understand that until I quite literally got my hands dirty and pulled stuff out of the trash.
That was the day I started seeing the world differently. Started questioning a lot. That was the day I especially started to hate wasted food. Or people who throw away idioms that are still good. (TVs, cars, clothes, other things that they don’t want but still perfectly good)
Please don’t waste food. Or idioms. Others seriously could use it.