“No Act of Kindness
No Matter How Small
is Ever Wasted"
by @reko
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Dumpster diving
The Latest Update:
Been cooking food like a large-scale catering establishment lately! :P
Been guiding some dumpster diving safaris lately on my sturdy bike! ;)
This is what @kundaliniyoga found on his last free the food mission! :)
Current Free Food in Stock:
BananaPasta
Broccoli
Salad
Rice paper
Onion
Tomatoe
Bratwurst
Pepper
Squash
Kale
Orange
Corn
Oat milk
Cottage Cheese
Shrimps
Bread
Coffee
Mushroom
Carrots
Celery
Clementine
Beetroot
Pomegranate
Herbs
Fennel
Head cheese
Chicken
Crème fraîche
Sun dried tomatoe
Cheese
Wheat
Flour
Tacos
Salmon
Garlic
Potatoe
Mustard
Herring
Lemon
Greens
Latest Update @solikyl:
Friday Food Waste Pickup #8 Christmas ham, 50kg Salt, Salami, Pickled Capers [2018.03.02]
Past Treasures:
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Why Do I Dumpster Dive?
- Bring awareness on how much food is wasted with the current system...
- Free the food that is wasted and share the abundance...
- Minimizing my costs enabling me to be less dependent on Fiat enabling me to power up...
- Great regular exercise and a shit-load of good karma! ;)
Here you will find plenty of trash-related articles: you can search by specific countries and cities to find the best places in your area!
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Good work. Now, there are many methods to protect waste products and utilize in a very useful way. not only food even the plastic, glass animal waste all are not waste less .
Creativity, well done
Thanks for the pictures, amazing initiative
Nice post
Nice voting record. Amazing generosity.
Very wow!
All of this food was seriously pulled out of various dumpsters?? WOW!
I am grateful that it wasn't wasted. It makes me think about the amount of food I may be wasting without even realizing it. Thank you for bringing awareness to the Steemit Community showing us we can still make it a better place for us all @reko
it has indeed and trust me, it's just the tip of the iceberg...
It is really sad to see that people throw away so much good food!
More power to you. I am a frugal person but I just can't get myself to dumpster dive. That bridge is way to far for me hah.
Glad you are doing so well. Keep living the life you want!
First time I read about this experience in first person. I barely can believe that you can find this much food! This is what is wrong and needs to be changed. How many people are starving and we're throwing food away. This is incredible... I think in France it's against the law to throw away food, we need to follow this kind of thinking.
Have a great day and thanks for sharing your experience, it was trully amazing for me...
Cheers, Luka.
Pretty incredible stuff, my friend, you got some great hauls there. Your mission is no doubt a worthy one, it only sucks that people like yourself are having to scrounge around in dumpsters to find all this stuff. There needs to be much more support for reducing waste in a functional way from a policy and procedure standpoint, not only from the businesses themselves, but from the government and outside nonprofits. I've heard a common answer most people hear when asking food places why they throw away so much that is still perfectly edible is that it's a liability issue, but there's very little actual evidence to support that. Perhaps the solution lies in incentivizing businesses to reduce waste, and having a more widespread and easily accessible network to funnel donated items to those in need.
check out @solikyl ! :)
Always makes me smile to see your dumpster diving posts, because as I've said, I dumpster dive in my own dumpster (for lost items). It's crazy the bounty you recover! Hopefully you don't have too much competition.
Any dental floss on your search?...hehe....that kale can be a bugger!
hehehe not yet unf!:P
These hauls are amazing! Curious- how often are the meat and dairy products you find still fit to eat? Do you have to sift through what you find or is it a timing thing? i.e hanging around until the food is discarded and fishing it out immediately?
yeh as fast as possible same night as it is thrown, use your senses to decide what's good or bad especially important when it comes to meat...
Interesting perspective. There's a Listeria outbreak in South Africa at the moment, so think I'll hold out on trying to find a haul until it all blows over!
I still can't believe that people really throw those ingredients. People are being so wasteful these days! But it's good that you can utilize those and made people who read this post aware that food waste problem is real.
It is such an irony that there are starving citizen but on other side, there are people who are being wasteful.
yup but things are about to change!!;)
I'm always impressed by all the healthy food you can find into trashed of all supermarkets ...
That's a shame!
Here is France the supermarkets put bleach into the garbage to avoid people getting the foods....
Didnt France forbids food waste by supermarkets ??
source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/24/586579455/french-food-waste-law-changing-how-grocery-stores-approach-excess-food
This is at the same time True ... and false!
Supermarkets should donate their wasted food... but only to non-profit organizations that have all the requirement to manipulate and transport food. This includes Approval from the official institutions, a truck with a freezer (with a lot of norms, need to be approved), a local (that ALSO need to be approved by the authorities ... ), etc ... )
This requires a HUGE financial investment for any local association... so only the "big" ones could pick-up wasted food.
So, yeah, it's forbidden to waste food IF an organization with all the requirements have made an official request to the supermarket.
So 99% of the food is still wasted ... :(
Thanks for explainig the issues with this law in France.
Our project is trying to facilitate an alternative to save food in a decentralized way, instead of relying on "BIG" charity organisations that do not really change anything long term but instead preserve the status quo.
We hope that Steem/Steemit can help us reach a broader community so we all can start fixing this problem from a grass roots level.
I wish you the best! I really appreciate those kind of projects! Keep up the good work
This is, for example, what a group on Facebook (called Les Gars'pilleurs) found into the garbage of a supermarket in France:
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pg/lesgarspilleurs/photos/?ref=page_internal
This law is supposed to be place in every country. I think I agree with you in the sense that in some countries,people sell such food stuffs till the last day of expiration and then throw away because they think they bought them with their money. That is really inhuman.
so much food and the people of my town eating just this
venezuela :(
a help does not go wrong
We had our first experiences with dumpsterdiving a few weeks ago and it was indeed eye-opening. Deep down you already know how much gets wasted, but when you actually experience it... it's absurd that so many people live in poverty and with hunger, but still society thinks that it's okay to waste so much food.
I do admit that I'm not completely liberated yet. I'm 2 months pregnant and I have a hard time combining the two. I keep thinking that I harm my baby by not eating "clean" food. Pure societal mindblur, I'm well aware and working on it. Thoughts like that are forced upon us from a very young age and I notice now that it's a huge task to break up with those ideas.
But step by step we free ourselves from the fogs in our minds... step by step.
Thank you for sharing!
Good for you buddy, am I a share holder? If I do Hold some shares you can send them through steemit and I will get them. I am starving I wish I was close lol😂. Steem is everywhere. Cheers Great job done be Blessed. Resteemed @reko
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thats alot of food
WOW! i knew people wasted food but this is unreal! Look at all that fresh produce! I am speechless!
Wow this is good, you are doing great reko. Blessed they said is the hands that giveth.
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Nice one
Large cities <- wasting food to restock with the freshest most attractive food.
Good for you on recovery this treasure.
I have never come across wasted food like that in the west Indies.
God bless you
good post! greeting
Great work @reko
Holy shit!!! I heard of dumpster diving but I had no clue one could get this much food. WOW I am speachless
It's amazing what you come up with as always, in a way it's a good thing, that's how you know that no one else is really that desperate and that everyone is well fed in your area. One time I cleared all the expired food out of my pantry and put it up on craigslist to see if anyone wanted it and I got quite a few takers, it was gone in a day.
I seen this show on television that does the same thing, but they used their findings to create meals to feed the homeless. It's amazing how we rather through the food away instead of just sitting it out for whomever need it.
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Please, I am short of words, the food is much.
Love what you do and the awareness you bring to the waste. The fact that this happens is constantly disturbing, but totally not surprising. Thanks .. Geoff
Does the collecting get slimmer as it gets warmer?
dunno really how the stats are although I will forage more straight from nature in the spring...
Whoa! Well done.
Nice Photo
Fryser inte maten sönder så här års? Tänker på frukt och grönsaker.
de mesta klarar sig faktiskt riktigt bra trots kylan, åt en frusen tomat igår dock vilket inte var den roligaste upplevelsen:P
Amazing! That is a ridiculously large amount of food. So many could be fed with that, and yet so much is just discarded like garbage.
It is insane how much gets thrown out, especially by restaurants and grocery stores. I wouldn't have expected the fruit, though! In the USA, the "sell by" and "use by" labeling system is confusing and leads to a lot of still perfectly good food being thrown out prematurely.
On the bright side, things like urban farming and food pickups are on the rise, here. Maybe, with programs like these, awareness, and technology, the system will become efficient.
I was a professional cook for 15 years and have seen a lot of wasted food, look at thes pictures i have recipes, all the things I can make with all that.
You are awesome
awesome post
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great awareness for the people! please never forget also to feed less fortunate people. may God bless you! :^D
Very nice .here in berlin it`s a bit dificult to dumpster if they dont lock the bins they deliberatly destroy the food.germans consider rubbish as property.in worse case they call the cops.
but it does work if you take care and know good places or know cool shop owners.
All that food was taken out of the trash? It's in perfect condition, I'm very surprised at the way the food looks (obviously I suppose there were worse things in worse condition) here in Venezuela, where I was born and alive there are many people going hungry and unfortunately they have to eat from the garbage because it's not enough for them at all, but it is not comparable the state of food in your country to mine, I dare say that the food in your photos is not considered trash and in the supermarkets would perfectly sell it, very proud of what you do and I wish you all the best... Good vibes brother, you got one more follower!