Pt. I. Perishing possessions -- 1. Liber-ate -- 2. Supermarkets -- 3. Manufacturers -- 4. Selling the sell-by mythology -- 5. Watching your wasteline -- 6. Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste -- Pt. II. Squandered harvests -- 7. Farming : potatoes have eyes -- 8. Fish : the scale of waste -- 9. Meat : offal isn't awful -- 10. Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger -- 11. The evolutionary origins of surplus -- 12. Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?' -- Pt. III. Where there's muck there's brass -- 13. Reduce : food is for eating -- 14. Redistribute : the gleaners -- 15. Recycle : compost and gas -- 16. Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us -- 17. Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea -- 18. Action plan : a path to utrophia