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It's not "buy nothing", but there's a forum local to my area where a sub forum is basically "curb pickup" and people post anything they want to give away. If so

• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  It's worth taking a moment to look for such groups (they're often on Facebook). Where I live, there's a bunch of flavors to pick from. There are buy/sell groups. There are giveaway groups. There are "curb pickup" groups. There are hybrid "curb pickup"/"spotted" groups, usually named "Uwaga, śmieciarka jedzie - $location" ("Attention, the garbage truck is coming"), where people put both stuff they want to give away and interesting stuff they've spotted someone else throwing away. On the food front, there are freegan groups. Interesting place to look if you want to see the degree of food waste happening daily. When I saw some photos just how much perfectly good, high-quality foodstuffs people can find in dumpsters by grocery stores, my jaw fell to the floor. We're talking "feed a family of 4 for a week from one garbage-spelunking trip" levels. Further on the food front, I was happy to discover public food fridges are becoming popular in Poland. We have one ~5 minutes from where we live, so now whenever we miscalculate our cooking and end up with a bunch of food that we don't feel like eating, or some ingredients that we're sure we won't make use of before they expire, we just pack them, label with date and list of ingredients, and put them in the public fridge. Less food thrown away, somebody gets a meal for free, and it's much less awkward for everyone involved.