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not in personal contact
CANADA - Ottawa - Foodsharing Ottawa
not in personal contact
DENMARK - Foodsharing Copenhagen
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not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam - Guerilla Kitchen
not in personal contact
NETHERLANDS - Bussum - Taste before you waste
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Contact: wageningenfoodsharing@gmail.com
POLAND - Foodsharing
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Łódź
Latest update from 2018-09-28, Janina Abels and Tilmann visited and met up with 7 2 foodsavers.
Foodsharing Warszawa has around 60 members. They have cooperations with 20+ stores, which are mostly 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.
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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. |
RUSSIA - Moscow, St. Petersburg
Contact: Анастасия Терехина via Tilmann
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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.
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"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
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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
SPAIN - Bilbao - Foodsharing Bilbao
Contact: Unai Gaztelu
Community: Emerging, more info after the intro event on 2017-04-08. One closed facebook group for foodsavers and one open one for foodsharers. Management of the pick-ups is organized via foodsaving.world.
Food-Share Points: None so far, but a fridge was already secured and some probable locations spotted.
Stores: One small organic supermarket agreed to daily pick-ups, one panadería allows for random and unscheduled pick-ups
Legal: A translated version of the liability waiver from foodsharing Edinburgh
Plans: Expansion!
SWEDEN - Gothenburg - Solikyl
Contact: Bruno (brunomc on Slack)
There are four detailed articles about Solikyl written by Bruno on foodsaving.today:
- How foodsharing in Gothenburg began
- Main practical challenges
- Tools to connect and to organize
- Strategies for the future
SWEDEN - Östersund
Contact: Little Teddy on facebook
SWEDEN - Stockholm - OLIO
Contact: Taras Kucherenko (via facebook)
not in close contact
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- 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
Contact: Unai Gaztelu
Community: Emerging, more info after the intro event on 2017-04-08. One closed facebook group for foodsavers and one open one for foodsharers. Management of the pick-ups is organized via foodsaving.world.
Food-Share Points: None so far, but a fridge was already secured and some probable locations spotted.
Stores: One small organic supermarket agreed to daily pick-ups, one panadería allows for random and unscheduled pick-ups
Legal: A translated version of the liability waiver from foodsharing Edinburgh
Plans: Expansion!
SWEDEN - Gothenburg - Solikyl
Contact: Bruno (brunomc on Slack)
There are four detailed articles about Solikyl written by Bruno on foodsaving.today:
- 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
SWEDEN - Stockholm - OLIO
Contact: Taras Kucherenko (via facebook)
not in close contact
SWEDEN - Uppsala - Livsmedela
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 foodsharingfind 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.