Free the Food #33 ✔ | One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure [2018-02-20]

reko (70) in food • 7 years ago (edited)

The Quest to End the Systematic Food Waste...

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by @reko
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Uhm, abundance?

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.

Latest Update:

STEEEEEEEEEEEEEM...

POOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEER!!

Lots and lots of fruit. many avocados being one definite favorite...

Most of the bananas weren't even ripe yet...sigh

Check out @solikyl they as well work on ways to minimize the food waste here locally in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Current Free Food in Stock:

Bananas
Pasta
Oranges
Dill
Broccoli
Salad
Corn
Clarified butter
Organic milk
Rice paper
Pommes Pinnes
Onions
Dried Cherries
Tomatoes
Peppers
Squash
Liver pâté
Corn
Crackers
Gooh (pre-made food)
Bread
Coffee
Butter
Mushrooms
Beetroot
Herbs
Fennel
Sun dried tomatoes
Coleslaw
Cheese
Wheat
Apples
Flour
Garlic
Mustard
Lemons
Greens

Past Treasures:

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Dumpster Diving - Behind the Scenes.

Arriving at out favorite blue container providing an ever lasting stream of ~~trash~~ treasures...

Why Dumpster Dive?

Save the abundance of food that is wasted and share it...
Minimizing costs enabling me to be less dependent on Fiat and Power Up 100%...
Shine a light on how much food is wasted with our current system...
Great exercise biking and carrying a shit load of food as well as a huge karma boost...
Lots of fun!!^^

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!

I also invite friends over to share the abundance of food, been doing it for many years now I make sure to always introduce them to the Steem blockchain and what is has to offer!

I've got great plans for 2018 and beyond and I'm working hard to achieve it. The Steem blockchain is the perfect place to create positive change as it rewards individuals that contribute to the community and humanity at large. I am wholeheartedly dedicated and committed to this and my intention is to create solutions for today's problems, unite humankind once and for all. The seeds have been planted, let us grow together...

Join my Discord Chat & May the Steem be with you!

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7 years ago by reko (70)

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iamai (48) · 7 years ago

Discarding and destroying food is a form of rationing to the population. God bless you for de-rationing.

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turksays (49) · 7 years ago

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nicolelang (41) · 7 years ago

Absolutely incredible and inspiring! Such great work you are doing!

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dobartim (83) · 7 years ago

Amazing work

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gaul (44) · 7 years ago

you are a great person, baerbagi is a good job, I salute you, good luck

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treebuilder (49) · 7 years ago

Awesome. Unfortunately many of the grocery stores around here have large trash compactors that have no access from the outside. I need to scope out some of the smaller stores.
In the past I have scored quite a bit of copper from construction dumpsters :)

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thelovejunkie (56) · 7 years ago

Wow @reko you are doing an amazing job, getting all these food items and giving them out to people who really need them. God bless you bro

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barbie.doll (48) · 7 years ago

You are doing a great job reko ...may God you reward for it😀

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themanwithnoname (64) · 7 years ago

That's a lot of abundance. Time to start up the juicer again and start making smoothies!

How often do you do the juicer cleanses?

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samest (61) · 7 years ago

@reko still doing his thing by demonstrating selfless character he portrait. You have been a blessing to many. Well done

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carey-page (50) · 7 years ago

Wow amazing. Our stores really do throw out so much food that could feed sooooo many people. I worked in the bakery department in a grocery store years ago. The Big guys came in to see how the food looked and we had to throw away many shelves of bread because it wasn't the right color. It was just a bit too dark. It was criminal. This was the first time I heard of stores throwing things out. At the time I had barely enough to feed my two children and this store was throwing out so much food.

Good for you!

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dishamoni (43) · 7 years ago

i like your all post.i know you so good

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kavinpeterson (16) · 7 years ago

nice food& i also like your food thanks for sharing....

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nicknightshade (49) · 7 years ago

Wow @reko! Dude this initiative is amazing, it just shows you how much waste is in our actual waste?!

What the hell!

I also find it amazing how you find so many of the same item too? Like do people just never eat those things? haha bizarre

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jeenger (68) · 7 years ago

Very good work! Very meaningful pictures! I'm with you! The seeds are scattered!

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zarakashi1 (25) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing i will done upvote I always see your post. And follow you!

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silentscreamer (69) · 7 years ago

Yeah.. Interesting idea, but no amount of free food would be enough to make me want to dive into dumpsters. There are other things in those dumpsters other then eatable food.
To each his own. 😌

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steem-samiam (64) · 7 years ago

You are wholeheartedly dedicated with a HUGE heart! Thanks for sharing this post and LOVE the steem power poses at the start of your post!

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kenhudoy (61) · 7 years ago

May the steem be with you bro you doing great and am sure many who need this will be glad you there to help. Imagine so much good food would have wasted if not for you. Thanks for sharing.

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robus (44) · 7 years ago

That's true. One man's trash is another man's treasure

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ligayagardener (62) · 7 years ago

An amazing effort. Keep getting that food to where it needs to be!

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xuancar (41) · 7 years ago

Sorry, but I can´t see anything glamourous in putting your head into garbage to get food.

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solikyl (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

@xuancar let me help you:

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rawdawg (61) · 7 years ago

Nobody said it’s glamorous. Can you not see the benefit in Reko’s work?? He is bringing awareness to a topic that gets overlooked and in doing so maybe showing others to not be wasteful pigs.

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emiratesp3md (43) · 7 years ago

In our place fruit like that
in aceh easy we get

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sabby12 (25) · 7 years ago

So sad the amount of perfectly good food thrown away. Thanks for sharing

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rawdawg (61) · 7 years ago

Hey @reko !!! I don’t know if dumpster diving would be for me, but what I can say is what you are doing is bringing awareness to the issue of how wasteful human beings are. And for this, I say thank you. Very kind work you are doing for humanity.

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