While foodsharing started and grew within the borders of German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), many have already taken the concept much further. There are functioning foodsharing groups in the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and all the other ones we don't even know about! Follow their example and just do it. Here is some practical advice that could come in useful in your new mission of enabling people to save beautiful, edible food on a daily basis.
We are collecting more detailed information about foodsaving and -sharing in our International Foodsaving Wiki. If you are already part of a related initiative, feel free to join the team and contribute!
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Documents
- Fair-Share Point Mini Manual
- Cooperations Manual
- Ethercalc Template Sheet for Store Pick-ups
- Benefits for Cooperating Stores
- Background Information
- Guideline for Nice Cooperation among Team Members
- Liability Contract from foodsharing Edinburgh
- Legal Statement from LivsmeDela Uppsala
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Fair-Share Point construction workshop: if you want to set up a location where people can share food unconditionally, this can be a wonderful activity for members to connect. Here you can find relevant information about our precious Fair-Share Points, the foodsaver's hub!
- Brunch with saved food : if Sunday brunch is a thing in your town, there will surely be open-brunch cafés and restaurants who usually have a lot of yummy leftovers that can be saved. Get in touch with them, bring a lot of containers, from small to big, and save it! If you have access to a location nearby like a neighborhood center, a foodsaver's living room or a park in the warmer days, you can invite your whole community to join for a late and sustainable Sunday brunch
- Saving at festivals: Music festivals are a great saving opportunity, not only for food but for various items people leave behind there. It also is fun to go to a festival with your friends! So why not combine the two? Here you can find more detailed information on this idea.
Of course it is as important to keep the people around as gathering them, so be sure to be nice to each other! If there are some who don't get what this means, you may want to refer to more clearly formulated criteria. In that case have a look at our guideline for nice cooperation (among the team members, in this case).
As big as possible, while still manageable
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Most importantly: Never use the "free of cost" incentive!
Foodsaving isn't about promoting access to free food, it's about fighting a waste-system that we disagree with.
Make a clear statement and don't let people assume that you are bunch of cheap garbage-hungry humans.
What you are doing is amazing and you know it!
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- Media catalogue of foodsharing: it is basically displaying material for foodsharing (flyers, banners, etc).
- A reviewed wiki containing users guidelines, based on our experience in Germany and aimed at an international audience.
- Templates from foodsharing to businesses, asking them to give their food waste away: benefits for cooperating stores and background information on foodsharing
- Content from Foodsharing Edinburgh : flyers, guidelines, letters to businesses, liability contract, membership agreement
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