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I am in Germany and I am a member of https://foodsharing.de/ https://foodsharing.de/ . We collect food from shops that would throw it away otherwise. In my tow
by jglauche 11y ago
I am in Germany and I am a member of https://foodsharing.de/ https://foodsharing.de/ . We collect food from shops that would throw it away otherwise.
In my town, we have a cooperation with a small organic supermarket where we collect food twice a week. Sometimes the quantity of the food that gets thrown out is sheer incredible: http://i.imgur.com/5mb4WN1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5mb4WN1.jpg
Over 95% of the collected food is still edible. It's mostly unpackaged food such as fruit, vegetables and bread, but sometimes packaged food as well with expired "Best before"-date (which honestly doesn't say anything about the quality of the contents).
We usually split these quantities up with 4-6 people and it has fed me well over the past months.
- icebraining 11y agoHere in Portugal there's also a project called Refood, founded by an American, which collects food from restaurants, coffeeshops, etc, and provides them to people in need. It's now distributing 24 thousand meals per month.