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not in personal contact
CANADA - Ottawa - Foodsharing Ottawa
not in personal contact
DENMARK - Foodsharing Copenhagen
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Update 2017-01-12:New Slack chat for team communication since November 2016. Food from the big market is mainly distributed at one indoor share point that they can use for free.
ECUADOR - Cuenca - foodsharing Cuenca
2nd group in Ecuador, just emerging in Spring 2018
ECUADOR - Quito - foodsharing Quito
1st group in Ecuador, started by Fausto and Chalo.
ENGLAND - London - OLIO
Blog post about Marilyn Kendall
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not in personal contact
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Amsterdam - Guerilla Kitchen
not in personal contact
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Bussum - Taste before you waste
facebook fanpage
facebook
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Maastricht - Foodsharing Maastricht
Information provided by Niki Ba on facebook
Informative article on foodsaving.world
NETHERLANDS - Utrecht - Taste before you waste
facebook fanpage
facebook group volunteers
not in personal contact
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Contact: wageningenfoodsharing@gmail.com
POLAND - Foodsharing
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Info provided by karolinahansen on Slack, Janina Abels visited Warsaw in September 2016
Agnieszka and Karolina started a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience around March 2016.
Community: 15 core people who meet every two weeks, only 1 verified foodsaver so far (because of a lack of cooperations) and around 30 more aspiring ones (by 09/2016). After 10-20 interviews for different media in May they now get contacted by people all over Poland and other cities already started foodsharing initiatives as well.
Food-Share Points: 3 fridges, soon 4 (by 09/2016). They call them 'Jadłodzielnia' (from 'jadło' - the fodder + 'dzielić' - to share + '-nia' - marks a location). Are used by the people, but sometimes empty.
Stores: The most lacking part so far. No regular pick-ups, just spontaneous calls from a bakery, a chef-in-training, and a seafood store.
Legal: foodsharing Warszawa doesn't want to register as an organization, because as private individuals noone is liable for possible problems due to the FSPs.
Difficulties: getting more stores to cooperate. Will focus from Oct. 2016 onwards to get regular cooperations. The Polish gift law, which makes the recipient of a gift pay 10% of its value to the state.
Solutions for handling the gift tax problem:
- First solution is clandestineness (The food is 'abandoned' and 'coincidentally' gets found by the foodsaver. Downside: Makes the cooperation inofficial and illegitimate.)
- Second solution is price reduction (where the store reduces the price to ridiculously small amounts and thus makes the tax almost non-existent. Downside: There still is money involved and the store has more work in accounting.)
- Third solution are tax-free amounts (If the value of the gifted items doesn't exceed a certain amount of money over some years, no tax needs to be paid. Downside: Work in accounting.)
How does it work? Extensive use of facebook:
Fanpage with 2246 likes (by 09/2016) https://www.facebook.com/FoodsharingWarszawa/
A closed group for the orgateam consisting of 14 people (by 09/2016)
A closed group for private foodsharing, dumster diving and freeganism, which already existed before, with 2069 members (by 09/2016)
A closed group for connecting organizations that have food with those who need it with 13 members (by 09/2016)
A closed group to coordinate the expansion of foodsharing to other Polish cities with 26 members (by 09/2016)
They have no quiz. 3 trial pick-ups are needed to become a verified foodsaver, two meetings must be visited to get the password to the orga-googledrive. On that drive there are spreadsheets about FSPs, pick-ups and verified and aspiring foodsavers, meeting minutes, a general rules sheet, flyers and posters, also to approach stores and basically everything they work on. The googledrive is like the office of foodsharing Warsaw, and who has the password is part of the orgateam.
Still dreaming of translating foodsharing.de. Interested to try out a basic software. Already thinking about building an app for themselves.
RUSSIA - Moscow, St. Petersburg
Contact: Анастасия Терехина via Tilmann
Web-site: http://www.foodsharingrussia.ru/
We aim to collaborate with organizations based on foodsharing.de's experience. The project is fully non-commercial. All related costs are held by members who manage it.
Started: July 2015
Community:
- ~2500 in Moscow (separate group in VK.com - https://vk.com/foodsharing_msk),
- ~3700 in St. Petersburg (separate group in VK.com - https://vk.com/foodsharing_spb)
Active members: several hundred
Collaborate with: ~30 stores, cafes, etc. Usually we have several pick-ups every day, apart from regular activities we have been involved in some events like cooking the world biggest Greek salad in Moscow on the Red Square
Totally saved: over 28 000 kg of food.
How does it work? Members who want to become active have to sign up, take a quiz and wait for the facilitator’s invitation to join the team. 1 trial pick-up is mandatory.
Tools: free tools - group chat on VK.com, Google Sheets, etc.
Difficulties: getting more stores, cafes, etc. to cooperate. Getting more active volunteers to establish contacts with organizations and develop the project. Current legislation does not include foodsharing possibilities so in some cases stores are required to dispose leftovers.
RUSSIA - VK Foodsharing page
Summary of the page by Kirill:
This page works like a bulletin board for people, who have more food than they need. On this page they are leaving their offers (for example: "5 kg of potato, Pushkina street 12, +7917..., after 18:00 till the end of this month") and everybody can contact them, visit and get the food.
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Łódź
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 2 foodsavers.
One Food-Share Point in university, not many regular cooperations and way too little volunteers. They try to condense their big facebook group for volunteers to build and actually functional group now.
POLAND - Foodsharing Warsaw
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 7 foodsavers.
Foodsharing Warszawa has around 60 members. They have cooperations with 20+ stores, which are mostly one-person pickups, managed through their Karrot group. Members are encouraged to bring picked up food to the public fridges (Jadłodzielnie). They are mostly communicating in their closed facebook group which has lots of discussions.
There are some stores where many people want to pick up. Some people do so more often because they are immediately clicking the "join pickup" button when it appears. Talking helped to alleviate to a certain degree, but sometimes the people just don't reply or when asked to meet up to clarify the situation, they say they are busy. Many in the group are of the opinion that those doing "nice" pickups should also help with hard pickups. (Noteworthy: despite this problem, most people respect the pickup settings, they don't increase max slots. So far, there might have been one person in the Warsaw group who did it.)
If people miss a pickup, it's sometimes hard to reach them. And Karrot still says that they did it.
There was a person in the group who offended many. They made a decision to remove him and told him "as you have been kicked out, you should leave our karrot group". This bluff worked, probably because the person didn't know that there were no admin roles in karrot.
Discussions in the facebook group are sometimes heated. This puts off people who want to introduce newcomers. Our discussion round liked the option to turn off comments for posts (in facebook).
Not many new people join and even less stay. They usually do advertising via their public facebook page. "For every 3 posts, 1 person joins."
There are not many people coming to meetups and not much in-person discussion. This leads to a feeling of low cohesion in the group.
At least one person has been requesting food deliveries from the group for reasons of being poor but having no time to pick up food. This is half met with resistance, half with support.
For starting cooperations with big stores, they miss people with more transport capacity. Not many have a car and there is no cargo bike culture in Warsaw (so far at least...). A cooperation with car rental companies could be a intermediate solution.
They avoid forming an association to reduce liablity and fees. This makes it harder to cooperate with big stores who usually want to a contract.
For a recent city event, a group member made a board game where players have to gather ingredients for a meal by picking up food from public fridges. The fridge on the game board closely resemble the real locations. It looks very well-done, printed on thick A0-sized paper, cardboard pieces for ingredients and cards for the meals. It was a hit with the children at the event.
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Agnieszka and Karolina started a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience around March 2016. Community: 15 core people who meet every two weeks, only 1 verified foodsaver so far (because of a lack of cooperations) and around 30 more aspiring ones (by 09/2016). After 10-20 interviews for different media in May they now get contacted by people all over Poland and other cities already started foodsharing initiatives as well. Food-Share Points: 3 fridges, soon 4 (by 09/2016). They call them 'Jadłodzielnia' (from 'jadło' - the fodder + 'dzielić' - to share + '-nia' - marks a location). Are used by the people, but sometimes empty. Stores: The most lacking part so far. No regular pick-ups, just spontaneous calls from a bakery, a chef-in-training, and a seafood store. Legal: foodsharing Warszawa doesn't want to register as an organization, because as private individuals noone is liable for possible problems due to the FSPs. Difficulties: getting more stores to cooperate. Will focus from Oct. 2016 onwards to get regular cooperations. The Polish gift law, which makes the recipient of a gift pay 10% of its value to the state. Solutions for handling the gift tax problem:
How does it work? Extensive use of facebook: They have no quiz. 3 trial pick-ups are needed to become a verified foodsaver, two meetings must be visited to get the password to the orga-googledrive. On that drive there are spreadsheets about FSPs, pick-ups and verified and aspiring foodsavers, meeting minutes, a general rules sheet, flyers and posters, also to approach stores and basically everything they work on. The googledrive is like the office of foodsharing Warsaw, and who has the password is part of the orgateam. Still dreaming of translating foodsharing.de. Interested to try out a basic software. Already thinking about building an app for themselves. |
POLAND - Foodsharing Wrocław
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 5 foodsavers.
Many Food-Share Points all over the city, but mostly put up by a different organization. Basically no regular cooperations with stores, but spontaneous pickups when called. Unclear state of collaboration with the other organization, but definitely motivation to proceed.
RUSSIA - Moscow, St. Petersburg
Contact: Анастасия Терехина via Tilmann
Web-site: http://www.foodsharingrussia.ru/
We aim to collaborate with organizations based on foodsharing.de's experience. The project is fully non-commercial. All related costs are held by members who manage it.
Started: July 2015
Community:
- ~2500 in Moscow (separate group in VK.com - https://vk.com/foodsharing_msk),
- ~3700 in St. Petersburg (separate group in VK.com - https://vk.com/foodsharing_spb)
Active members: several hundred
Collaborate with: ~30 stores, cafes, etc. Usually we have several pick-ups every day, apart from regular activities we have been involved in some events like cooking the world biggest Greek salad in Moscow on the Red Square
Totally saved: over 28 000 kg of food.
How does it work? Members who want to become active have to sign up, take a quiz and wait for the facilitator’s invitation to join the team. 1 trial pick-up is mandatory.
Tools: free tools - group chat on VK.com, Google Sheets, etc.
Difficulties: getting more stores, cafes, etc. to cooperate. Getting more active volunteers to establish contacts with organizations and develop the project. Current legislation does not include foodsharing possibilities so in some cases stores are required to dispose leftovers.
RUSSIA - VK Foodsharing page
Summary of the page by Kirill:
This page works like a bulletin board for people, who have more food than they need. On this page they are leaving their offers (for example: "5 kg of potato, Pushkina street 12, +7917..., after 18:00 till the end of this month") and everybody can contact them, visit and get the food.
- No meat, no fish, no seafood
- They also have a special topic for sharing clothes, pets, tools and some other stuff
- It isn't connected with shops, just individual offers
- Around 10-20 new offers per day
- Sometimes it's offers from shops, sometimes from charitable organizations -- everything in one list
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SCOTLAND - Foodsharing Scotland
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SCOTLAND - Foodsharing Edinburgh
Info provided by Jess Acton via facebook in November 2017
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SPAIN - Barcelona
info collected by Arno Döpper, met with one of the people in November 2016
related Homepage (Wordpress page - not only for Barcelona)
Community: community exists since about 4 years. They have monthly assemblies, to welcome new members. They used to be more open but limited the 'membership' at some point (I forgot why exactly). They pick up food twice a week and meet once a week to distribute the food (equally) among the contributing members (two people get one basket and share the food between each other). Before the food distribution there is an assembly. There are different sub groups in the community taking care of various tasks (communication, internal workshops, raising awareness at schools or other institutions, ...). The community is run very local (mostly Garcia as I understood) and also more or less analog. (Having one whatsapp group). They used to do their assemblies in a squat (Banc Expropriat), now in a new squat next to it (Ateneu Entrebanc).
Food-Share Points: No food share points.
Stores: Several small stores, which are happily collaborating. (At least more than 10)
Legal: no legal arrangement.
Difficulties: language: Catalan or Spanish.
Plans: trying to create a closer relationship with food stores
SCOTLAND - Foodsharing Edinburgh
Info provided by Jess Acton via facebook in November 2017
"We're funded by the Climate Challenge Fund (Scottish Government) on the basis that we reduce carbon emissions, and that pays for equipment and expenses and my salary. We're collecting and redistributing food from 17 local businesses (around 2 tonnes a month) and we also are running around 3 Disco Soups a year. We're thinking of changing the Disco Soup format for summer to make it more like a food show.
We do a weekly free food table on a local park (Waste not Wednedays!) and run sustainable cooking classes with students. We also have a research project going on at the moment which is looking at preventing business food waste."
SPAIN - Barcelona - La Xarxa d'Aliments de Gràcia (Banc Expropriat)
Info provided by Lukas Gebhard in March 2019
Community: The Xarxa d'Aliments de Grácia exists since several years now. It is one of the initiatives of the community Banc Expropriat, a squad in Barcelona's neighbourhood Grácia. The Xarxa has weekly meetings. At each meeting, there is an agenda of topics to be discussed. During the discussion, participants come and go to pick up food at cooperating stores nearby. In the end, every participant receives an equal share of the saved food. The Xarxa is generally open to newcomers.
Food-Share Points: None.
Stores: About 15 stores (including bakeries, markets, and organic stores).
Legal: No legal arrangement.
Difficulties:
Plans:
SPAIN - Bilbao - Foodsharing Bilbao
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- How foodsharing in Gothenburg began
- Main practical challenges
- Tools to connect and to organize
- Strategies for the future
SWEDEN - Borås - foodsharing i Borås
Contact: Lotta of foodsharing Chemnitz
SWEDEN - Östersund - foodsharing i Östersund
Contact: Little Teddy on facebook
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not in close contact
TAIWAN - Taipei - Foodsharing Taiwan
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Difficulties: People are still not familiar with the idea of Foodsharing. Therefore, the first task is always to educate the group and the people of Ankara to rescue more food. People don't usually want to take cooked food or even the fresh rescued food. To change this mentality is the greatest challenge . The group is still working on this task and share the advantages of freeganism on social media. A system without any requirement of membership, where people can easily find the locations of the food share points and take/leave fresh food is needed for the next steps, due to huge amounts of rescued food from Çerçöp. Another difficulty is finding more people to take responsibilities in foodsharingshare the advantages of freeganism on social media. A system without any requirement of membership, where people can easily find the locations of the food share points and take/leave fresh food is needed for the next steps, due to huge amounts of rescued food from Çerçöp. Another difficulty is finding more people to take responsibilities in foodsharing.
USA - Savannah - Food Not Bombs
contact: wutogui on foodsaving worldwide forums
Food Not Bombs is a widespread international organization that has chapters in many cities of the world. They are all independent and not centrally organized, so you never know which one's are still active if you don't have personal contact. Still, here is a map.