You should know your neighbours well enough to borrow a cup of sugar or an onion. Plus your actual neighbours should be actually next door, not halfway down the

You should know your neighbours well enough to borrow a cup of sugar or an onion. Plus your actual neighbours should be actually next door, not halfway down the street. I think the LFP adds a great deal to a community so I am not knocking the idea. Maybe the idea needs to be more than a pantry though. We all chuck stuff out that could be given a second home. Some people pay good money to drive to the tip and dump stuff that could be re-used. We also get stuff in the back of our food cupboards that are not going to be eaten. Maybe we need small-shed sized 'pantries' that enable more to go on. As well as being community they could also have the council clear the contents out on a fortnightly basis, so it is just a well ordered 'cache' of stuff to go to the tip.