Taking out of date food from shop car park?

lally666young

Our local co-op asks at the end of the day if anybody wanted the reduced items for a 1p each! Hence now people will wait. But I dony think it will be long before head office finds out. As it is just a recent thing and the manager hates waste. I would have dumpster dived it is tough times we are living in now. Corporations are just plain evil and mean!!!!

zippychick

as this has dropped down the OS board, ive moved it to the green and ethical board.

heres a link to our freegan old style thread so you can read others thoughts.

Zip

Obukit

Put it this way - I don't ever buy bread, fruit or vegetables, meat, fish or ready prepared food. I only buy pasta, rice and other "long shelf life" goods. Anything with a use by date comes courtesy of Tescos!

I've even got quite picky about what bread I get as there is so much in the bins - I only get Tesco Finest or branded bread now!

The store manager got in a strop with me once but I told him if he wanted to reduce it all down to a token amount I would gladly buy it and save his staff from putting it in the bins. He declined and, as they only reduce the food by 25% then bin it, I will continue with my effort to help Tesco reduce their refuse disposal bill!

You just need to be sensible and test food with your nose rather than relying on the sell by date. I have never had food poisoning except once, from a pub meal.

JohnyBM

miss_emmajane wrote: »

Earlier today my OH and I went to CO OP to pick up some fruit and whilst getting in the car we saw a clear bin bag left out with potatoes, leeks and peppers in which looked fine. After a little thinking we thought "why not? it is clearly rubbish" and we've brought it home with us. We have potato and leek soup cooking as I type.

Thing is, I know of 'freeganism' but I have never gone looking for food in bins etc, though with all that is wasted I don't have any problem with people doing that. But I am a bit of a goody two shoes, and have now connived myself that I could get in trouble for this ... even if it was just going to rot anyway.

Can anyone please put my mind at rest that I won't be arrested for taking some binned veggies?

you are doing a lot of good by liberating waste food that would be dumped on landfill and creating harmful methane as it rots. Every waste food liberater should be praised as hero's for helping to reduce climate change.

antrobus

JohnyBM wrote: »

you are doing a lot of good by liberating waste food that would be dumped on landfill and creating harmful methane as it rots. Every waste food liberater should be praised as hero's for helping to reduce climate change.

As far as I'm aware, Tesco doesn't dump any food in landfill. It all goes into power generation.

KellyKim

As a pretty obvious rule of thumb, if its in the bin they don't want it. If its beside the bin, its hard to tell, unless the bin is full, meaning again its highly likely it is waste.

In terms of the law, technically it is illegal, but many 'freegans' do this every day and no one has ever been charged for it. The absolute worst that could happen is that someone would take your name and tell you to be on your way.

Best time to go 'skipping' is at night. Bins are packed full of food that is more than good enough to eat, and in a world where many can't I'd say we have an obligation to use as much of it as we can - especially with food prices soaring!

So I'd encourage you to go 'skipping' every week if you can!

Kel x

HappyMJ

KellyKim wrote: »

As a pretty obvious rule of thumb, if its in the bin they don't want it. If its beside the bin, its hard to tell, unless the bin is full, meaning again its highly likely it is waste.

In terms of the law, technically it is illegal, but many 'freegans' do this every day and no one has ever been charged for it. The absolute worst that could happen is that someone would take your name and tell you to be on your way.

Best time to go 'skipping' is at night. Bins are packed full of food that is more than good enough to eat, and in a world where many can't I'd say we have an obligation to use as much of it as we can - especially with food prices soaring!

So I'd encourage you to go 'skipping' every week if you can!

Kel x

Sorry to pick you up on this. Many have been charged for it.

Google Sacha Hall who was arrested and charged for theft after Tesco discarded a lot of food after a power cut and she helped herself to it.

KellyKim

HappyMJ wrote: »

Sorry to pick you up on this. Many have been charged for it.

Google Sacha Hall who was arrested and charged for theft after Tesco discarded a lot of food after a power cut and she helped herself to it.

@ HappyMJ - thanks for this, I hadn't heard of this case. Are there any more though? I know lots of people who have 'skipped', one or two got a little friendly telling off once, but that's it. Good to be smart about it though, and go when its dark, quiet and never leave any mess (not just because it doesn't draw attention, but because its not nice for others to have to clear up.

Thanks

POPPYOSCAR

I think it is so hypocritical of any companies who continually state that they are doing everything they can to be 'green' and yet will put perfectly good food in the bins.

Our Sainsburys put all their reduced items to 10p at around 7.00pm and everything goes, so I commend them for that.

Once when I went to collect some items from the collection point at the back of a well known store, there were 3 huge bins full of gardening items such as hanging baskets etc.

We asked if we could take a couple of things and were told no they had to be disposed of.

What a waste.

JohnyBM

antrobus wrote: »

As far as I'm aware, Tesco doesn't dump any food in landfill. It all goes into power generation.

Well that can not be good for the Earth. How does that work in reality, how can they seperate the packaging?

Sounds like a smokescreen to me.

You are still better of liberating the waste than letting it damage the Earth.