Messages from freegans around the UK.
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Tuesday 9 March, 2010 (Food Surplus) - hellfire says:
having trouble finding decent skips in london
anyone have any pointers ie places, best times pref central london
Tuesday 9 March, 2010 (Select ) - says:
reading just the very beggining of the faq it seems clear that the writer has a very limited or distoorted understanding of economics. "Rather than working for money, as in the current system, freegans occupy their time giving and receiving for free" This seems to be suggesting that we aought to abandon money as a means of trade and should revert to bartering. Insteadd of doing a job to earn money with which we can buy goods and services, this seems to say we should swap favors with no exchange of money. Unfortunately swapping favors requires that the seperate parties envoved in the swap have a coincidence of wants (happen to each want what the other is offering) In reality this is rare. The local baker may have no interest in your offer of cleaning his windows, however you would like to recieve some bread from the baker. Without money, you have nothing to offer the baker in order to recieve the benefits of eating his bread. Money means you can clean one shops windows, recieve payment and then use that money to buy bread from the baker.
Money as a means of exchange is essential for complex trade. This website seems to be suggesting that it is unresonable to "work for money". Money is not an evil force, mearly a way in which we are able to live and work together, each doing what we are good at and benefiting collectively from greater production.
Tuesday 9 March, 2010 (Media enquiries) - Kimberly Godbolt says:
I’d like to speak to freegans about skipping in London with a view to doing some filming to make a statement about waste.
A new not-for profit, communty food project that we're following in a documentary series for Channel 4 is holding a really big event in two weeks’ time to highlight the amount of waste that our society generates, and I need some help from passionate people like you…
I can tell you much more over the phone, so if you and/or someone you know can help, my phone numbers are 020 7241 9239 or 07946 184168, or send me an email with your details if you’d like more information.
Thank you very much,
Kimberly
Monday 8 March, 2010 (Dumpster Diving) - LJ says:
The ultimate has to be bottles of water thrown out as past their sell-by date. Since when did pure spring water go off. The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland could never have dreamt up such an absurdity.
If VAT is put on food will a lot more be thrown out? You bet!
Regards to JD...keep up the good work.
Monday 8 March, 2010 (Information) - Laura Jones says:
Hi there, I'm looking to write and take pictures of Derby freegans for a piece I'm doing. I'm newish to the area and was a common visitor to the skip myself in the past but haven't found the best places in Derby yet. Please contact me on 07886 245477 if you can help. Thanks.
Saturday 27 February, 2010 (Community) - JD says:
Hi Shobha,
Thanks for your recent posts and for letting us know about the furniture/household items that are available to be picked up. Hopefully someone takes you up on this kind offer.
Regards freegan groups in your area, I'd suggest checking out the 'Meet-up' function on the site (which is very simple to use) for any current meet-ups people may have suggested near to where you live. If there aren't any, you may wish to consider posting your own meet-up, to lead the way in building some freegan bridges in your local community.
Best of luck!
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Freeganism in General) - SHOBHA DHAMI. says:
HI ITS SHOBHA AGAIN,I LIVE IN ILFORD.AND SOME TENANTS HAVE BEEN THROWING SOME VERY NICE ITEMS,ESPECIALLY SOFA,SETEE'S,AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AS WELL AS FEW BEDS.
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO PLEASE COME AND PICK THEASE UP,AS YOU WILL NEED A VAN OR TRUCK TO PICK THEM UP FROM OUR SHED.
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Freeganism in General) - ms shobha dhami says:
Hi can you please let me know if there are any Freegan groups in Ilford essex,or rebridge.As i would like to be able to pick up foods from outside city centeres,and from farms.
cheers.
shobha.xx
Wednesday 24 February, 2010 (Dumpster-diving) - JD says:
There seem to be a number of different reasons why items get thrown out, with varying degrees of insanity, or carelessness, or thoughtlessness attached to each example of waste we find. I think the primary reason most items get thrown out is because (at least here in the West) the way things are set up, it costs retailers more to recycle, especially due to the low cost of purchasing in most cases from suppliers.
So, in most cases, even though there is usually a very bad reason for the waste I have encountered, I have usually been able to rationalise it, looking at how the system is set up. However, there have been times when I have found this very hard to do. This has varied from times I have found things like really expensive chocolates and bottles of wine to brand-new three piece suites to electrical gadgets, like i-pods with no apparent fault.
I thought I'd throw this question out to people... what is the most insane/surprising find you have had?
Saturday 13 February, 2010 (Information) - freegan Sue says:
One thing I have also noticed getting chucked out more than ever is flowers during this time of year. Considering they are selling 12 roses in a paper bag for £40 outside Clapham Junction railway station, they don't care about the flowers that don't get sold. They make a pretty decoration in the house, but it's sad to think how they were probably grown on land and with resources like water that could have been used to feed people in the developing world.