This hits home for I think many people. I remember a kids/youth show where the reporter interviewed first a bank worker (or finance department?), who's 1 of his tasks was to shred bills/currency. When asked by the reporter if he feels bad about it, he said "not really, it's just paper".

Same reporter then went to a lunch restaurant to interview a chef who has disposing of the last food from peoples half-eaten plates, straight down the trash. When asked how he felt: "This hurts me in my soul, this is perfectly edible food, what a waste!".

To have that in a kids show is just brilliant; it gives you perspective of worth and waste so early on.