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linzibean

one of my OH's housemates at uni skip dives... he's had pies to birthday cakes, huge bags of crisps and all sorts of wierd things! One drunken evening he was caught by the police who told him it was against the law to take from bins, to which he replied "It's not me you should be talking to! Its criminal how much they throw away!!"

calleyw

Hermia wrote:

I wouldn't eat food out of supermarket bins, I've seen the maggots in them.

If you had listened to the show you would heard that they check everything out and only take stuff that is wrapped. And when they take milk they take it only if it is cool or cold.

And according the young man he said that that meat/fish/veg does not know it is out of date :rotfl:

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Calley

calleyw

linzibean wrote:

"It's not me you should be talking to! Its criminal how much they throw away!!"

I agree totally. There are thousands of people starving in the world. And we have so much food we can afford to throw it away.

It is disgusting and nothing to be proud of.

What I want to know is who is chucking out my £1200 a year of food though :rotfl:


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Calley

Bogof_Babe

Me too Calley - you should see what I can do with an eighth of a week-old onion! (That is, started a week ago, probably been in the fridge a month!)

halloweenqueen_2

Some dinners are designed with ingredients that might be going a bit manky,so someone is chucking away my £1200's worth as well. I can't bear to chuck anything out. £1200 is a lot of money to earn to throw away.

calleyw

halloweenqueen wrote:

I can't bear to chuck anything out. £1200 is a lot of money to earn to throw away.

But that is drop in the ocean when you compare it to what people spend on clothes, going out, cars, holidays, widescreen TV's, DVD's etc.

I would rather have that money in bank account. OK my ISA earning loads of interest.


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Calley

Savvy_Sue

Was listening to A World in Your Ear on Radio 4 as I drove home from shopping this afternoon. Particularly impressed at the suggestion that you can shave a bit off all the dog biscuits you feed your pet, still give it the same number, and mix the shavings with roadkill to make a smoothie ...

Mind you, in my view, if life's too short to stuff a mushroom, it's definitely too short to shave a dog biscuit! (And we don't have a dog, either.)

reehsetin

Hermia wrote:

I wouldn't eat food out of supermarket bins, I've seen the maggots in them. I did once 'liberate' some books from a WHSMith bin. They were in perfect condition and I couldn't believe they couldn't just donate them to a charity shop.

i used to work at whsmith - me and my assistant manager wanted to donate some of the old books to a school down the road, the manager wouldnt let us blaming head office tho i think it was more him who didnt want to - such a shame, they even ripped the books up so they couldnt be sneaked away!
i can understand perishables for health and safety reasons - but no logical reason at all for them not to be donated to schools at least or even to be generous liberaries

kittiwoz

Taking stuff from skips or bins is illegal because the contents belong to the owner of the skip or bin so it is theft and you could be arrested but I doubt that you would be unless you were making a lot of noise or mess while you were at it, for example if you were drunk like Linzibean's OH's housemate. You probably couldn't be arrested for tresspassing because unless there is a sign that specifically says "No public access" you can't be arrested for tresspass unless it is acompanied by criminal damage.

While it is illegal I don't think it is imoral and I am in fact sat, while typing this, on a chair which I wombled out of a skip at uni. I'd do it much more often if I had a car. They'd be a great source of firewood.

RacyRed

How ridiculous is it that it is illegal to "recycle" things that have been thrown away, but perfectly legal for the shops to be so seriously wasteful?

If current legislation is over-riding common sense it is time it was revised.

Health and Safety regulations are absolutely necessary, but there should be a point at which "own risk" kicks in and people are allowed to make decisions for themselves about what they will or will not eat, on the understanding that they have no come back whatsoever on the retailer who disposed of the goods.

As for defacing and throwing away books rather than donate them to local children or people? No-one who can contemplate doing such a thing is fit to be in charge of a bookshop, in my view!