THE REAL JUNK FOOD PROJECT Adam Smith is the founder of The Real Junk Food Project. He is passionate about collecting food that has been discarded by supermarkets, and transforming this wasted food into healthy nutritious meals. Smith worked as a head chef for ten years and thought of the idea for The Real Junk Food Project when he was traveling in Australia and witnessed the scale of food waste in the agricultural sector and catering industry. The global statistics are staggering: roughly one-third of food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted. Smith founded The Real Junk Project to fill the gap between hunger and excess food and to raise awareness about how much food goes to waste. "Over 800 million people in the world (that's one in every nine people on Earth) do not have enough food..." Smith started the project and opened the first Real Junk Food café in his hometown Leeds in 2013. Since then, the concept has been exported as far away as Los Angeles and Brazil, Warsaw and Zurich. The idea is simple: volunteers go out and collect food from various sources: farms, restaurants, factories and supermarkets. Meals are produced and sold in cafés on a 'pay-as-you-feel' (PAYF) basis so that nobody is excluded. The cafés are for the community in general, not only for the impoverished. Those who can afford it pay what they think the meal is worth, while those who can't afford to buy meals from the café can earn their meals by volunteering for instance, they can help with the washing up.