Free the Food #31 ✔ | The Quest to End the Systematic Food Waste [2018-02-02]
“We are Trashing our Land to Grow Food that no one Eats.”
by @reko
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Dumpster diving
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The Blue Container of
Coop is throwing away shitload of food at the same time doing green washing campaigns telling everyone how good they are...
She might look sweet, but she's a real killer! ;)
Another night of overfilled garbage cans
Home sweet home...
Stocks are filled again...
Current Free Food in Stock:
CornClarified butter
Organic milk
Rice paper
Root chips
Pommes Pinnes
Avocado
Onions
Dried Cherries
Mango
Tomatoes
Bratwurst
Peppers
Squash
Kale
Oranges
Liver pâté
Peas
Greek Yoghurt
Organic BBQ Chips
Corn
Crackers
Falafel
Oat milk
Gooh (pre-made food)
Cottage Cheese
Pesto
Shrimps
Bread
Coffee
Butter
Sugar snaps
Mushrooms
Carrots
Celery
Clementines
Beetroot
Pomegranate
Herbs
Fennel
Head cheese
Chicken
Crème fraîche
Salad
Sun dried tomatoes
Yoghurt
Coleslaw
Cheese
Wheat
Crispbread
Sweet buns
Apples
Crisps
Mozzarella
Flour
Tzatziki
Tacos
Roast beef
Salmon
Garlic
Potatoes
Mustard
Herring
Lemons
Greens
Past Treasures:
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Dumpster Diving - Behind the Scenes.
Was a cold and snowy night here in Gothenburg...
Arriving at out favorite blue container providing an ever lasting stream of 
Why do I Dumpster Dive?
- Bring awareness on how much food is wasted with our current system...
- Save the abundance of food that is wasted and share it...
- Minimizing costs enabling me to be less dependant on Fiat and can Power Up 100%...
- Great regular exercise and good karma... ;)
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excellent work @reko
Its a sin how much the western world throws away on a daily basis. I hope your work educates more people to do what you do.
Another good way to cut down on waste is to grow your own vegetables, take what you need and if you have left-overs that you cant eat, throw them in the compost bin for next years compost.
In my country allotments (community gardens) are quite cheap. mine costs me £72 per year, bargain.
keep on educating the world @reko, ur a legend :-)
Thank you @pcste!:() Taht's great advice but I'm more of a forager then a grower as the abundance of food growing freely here is crazy especially considering I'm the only one using it....
Our compost bin is always filled up as you can imagine!!;)
you always get so much! nice haul
yeah, 9 out of 10 times...thanks for the support!:)
Good job man. The last time i read your post was on certain stock of food stuff and now you got another stock and they are well delicious to say the least and thanks for helping humanity because its rare thing for even the government to participate in it. But you showed love ro as much you can at where you reside and trust me you are very much blessed for it..keep up the good work man.
#teamsavehumanity
Your first line hits so hard. We ARE trashing our land for literally nothing. Not to mention all of that packaging, the fuel used to ship all around the world. If that isnt an exmaple of the absolute futilty of racing forward at full speed , I dont know what is 😒
yes, we must just stop and chill ut for a while then we will most certainly see the total craziness that is today's society...
It is a great cause you've taken on. Food wastage is a worldwide canker that should be addressed through education and change of attitude. In my country, majority of our food crops go waste due to our inability to process and store them for future use. I loved the second reason why you dumpster dive, which is to save enough and share. We can save a lot of money if we adopt this attitude. The next time I eat, I'll only take what I can consume, to save food.
that is a lot of food to be wasted , looking at my country and the way food is precious been a third world country , i can only stare in shock at how you guys throw away so much edible food, .... whaat this is absurd
Thanks for the invite, you are doing a great job, more grace...nice dog
I have volunteered at food banks and homeless shelters here in the USA and almost 100% of the food used to make take away packages and hot meals were donated by supermarkets.
I am not the most well traveled of individuals so I am not sure what the situation in European countries is with food banks and homeless shelters... but have you approached these supermarkets about donating this "expired" foods to shelters or churches in your area?
Most of the time super markets and other retailers are perfectly willing to donate these goods if you take care of the logistical issues of transportation ect...
Most supermarkets and other retailers are not by any means evil or want to be wasteful... but simply don't want to waste time researching possible donation sites.
I am always very impressed by what you are able to recover, the cold weather must help keep things fresh. It seems to me though that as a solution it does not scale well. Have you considered trying to get these supermarkets to use biodegradable or consumable packaging? Then they could compost everything or better yet use it as hog food. Then nothing would go to waste. Humans have always produced a lot more food than we eat but we never considered the excess to be waste, it was animal feed or compost.
nice food...so delicious...
.i realize it so much...
i like it too much...
awesome...blog.. over all..
best of luck..
keep it on