Free the Food #28 ✔ | A Quest to End the Systematic Food Waste [2018-01-29]

in #food7 years ago (edited)

Another Successful Dumpster Diving Mission Completed!

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by @reko
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Dumpster diving

The practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.

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Latest Update:

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Going out for another dive in the rainy night...

DSCN1501.JPGArriving at out favorite blue container providing an ever lasting stream of trash treasures...

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Not Lizzys favorite activity but much needed after a night like this...

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I've got great plans for 2018 and beyond and intend to work hard to achieve it. The Steem blockchain is the perfect place to create positive change as it actually rewards individuals that contributes to the community and humanity at large. I am wholeheartedly dedicated to this platform and my intention is to create solutions for today's problems, unite humankind once and for all and I invite you all to join in...

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Latest Treasures:

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Corn overload...

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Hundreds of dollars worth of food and a shitload of Norway lobster...

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Mission accomplished...

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Current Free Food in Stock:

Norway lobster
Corn
Crackers
Falafel
Oat milk
Gooh (pre-made food)
Cottage Cheese
Pesto
Shrimps
Bread
Coffee
Bananas
Butter
Sugar snaps
Mushrooms
Onion
Tomatoes
Avocados
Carrots
Strawberries
Blueberries
Celery
Clementines
Beetroot
Pomegranate
Chips
Herbs
Fennel
Head cheese
Chicken
Crème fraîche
Salad
Sun dried tomatoes
Yoghurt
Coleslaw
Cheese
Wheat
Candy
Crispbread
Chestnut cream
Sweet buns
Apples
Crisps
Mozzarella
Flour
Tzatziki
Tacos
Vegan products
Roast beef
Salmon
Garlic
Potatoes
Mustard
Herring
Sausages
Herbs
Lemons
Greens


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Past Treasures:

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Salmon and cucumber is gonna be on the menu here for a while...

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Found some sweet coconut water with peach and mango and also one with coconut water and espresso...nomnom! :)

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Massive amounts of food in stock, this is just a part of it all...

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Introducing Trashwiki, the collaborative world wide guide of creating value from trash! 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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Dumpster Diving - Behind the Scenes.

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Was a cold and snowy night here in Gothenburg...

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Lizzy is my loyal partner when diving, always ready to go! :)

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Mission accomplished... ;)

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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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Thursdays Weekly Meet-ups:

We meet up on Thursdays in the middle of the city to share the food we've saved during the week. It's a great way to meet, connect and support each other. We meet between 6-7 pm at the same time as the decentralized farmers market that I've initiated!

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I regularly invite friends over to share the abundance of food, been doing it for many years but now I also of course make sure to introduce them to the Steem blockchain! ;)

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This is impressive and depressing at the same time. I am impressed by your resourcefulness and depressed at what might have all been thrown out if you hadn't salvaged it! I was wondering how all of that meat stayed good, and then I saw what you were wearing and figured it's probably rull cold there!
I love this! I do something similar with furniture that people put outside their homes to be taken to the dump. I refurbish it and either donate it or sell it. Isn't is such an amazing feeling to save something usable from being thrown away? I also find it's such a rush each time not knowing what I will find. This is so cool. Keep up the good work!

Good work and to a great cause!

Subarasii
This is great! I lived on the street for a couple years and ate quite a bit of "garbage", a few months ago a friend gifted us a gigantic brick of gouda cheese from a local cheese dumpster. Just had to cut the mold off whenever we wanted to use some, I think there may still be a brick somewhere in the pantry. Kinda scary to consider what it looks like now. I am feeling inspired after seeing this, I foolishly spend most of my income on food when i have work lately.. I could at least forage for non parishables, besides the practical aspect, binning is a ton of fun.
Arigato gozimasu! Followed you, looking forward to more of your expiditions.

This act is really outta this world. I haven't seen this kind of stuff in my whole life
Yeah i know of charity and foundation but this,nah nah!! This is good and really helping humanity because food is energy and it keep people alive to search for their long time daily bread. Food keeps people on the street begging,makes people illegal and all kinds,but ere is much more in stock for free..man you are a good Samaritan. God bless your effort and sure you got a nice dog too😊 am a lover of dogs so dont mind me. Just keep the good works on and keep people alive as you keep them hope to live. Countries
Citizens should try and keep this in practice and introducing them to the steem block chain is the best, making money on their own so they dont live on bread alone
.good job man👏👏👏👏

Mate, that's an impressive haul.

I've always been fascinated by dumpster diving. The food that people collect is just insane.

It really does highlight just how wasteful our society can be.

I'm curious though, how long will that Norway Lobster last? It looks incredible but I'd be concerned for its shelf life.

Well done on your mission! What you're doing takes real dedication.

It's expiry date is tomorrow so will have to try to get it out to people ASAP! :D

Absolutely, or eat it all yourself :P

I freaking love lobster.

This is a really selfless thing that you're doing.
I pray you get support and assistance everywhere/everything you need it.

thank you seems like support is coming our way!:D

unhappy to see that much meals has been thrown down when it can be donated to someone neeedy..incredible attempt performed by means of you ! and yes lizzy is so adorable.

my goodness ! thats alottt of food..sad to see that much food has been thrown down when it could be donated to someone neeedy..great effort done by you ! and yes lizzy is so cute.
more power to you !!!

I'm currently in military and one thing that shocked me at first was the ammount of food that gets wasted. Thankfully things have improved, but years ago even underpayed kitchen workers couldnt take any left overs home and it was dumped.