And why dumpster diving will still be a criminal offense. Sabine Werth , founder of the food banks, sums it up perfectly: "As long as food waste is legal, dumpster diving must also be legal."
Every minute, an entire truckload of food is wasted in Germany. Food waste has existed as a phenomenon as "dumping" for discarded food, although it has only recently gained significant public attention in the last ten years.
How wonderful would it be if wasting edible food were finally punished and rescuing food from the bin was legal?
But it's not that simple in a state governed by the rule of law. Even during my five-year money strike, I tried to decriminalize food rescue via an e-petition, unfortunately without success.
While the idea of legalizing dumpster diving is fundamentally good, some questions arise: What happens if someone injures themselves while dumpster diving or even if there's a shard of glass in the rescued food?
A case like this one in Austria is, thankfully, quite rare. But there are also legal and straightforward ways to rescue food, and even for free: foodsharing, for example, where over 400,000 people now participate and which I started in 2012, or our online shop SIRPLUS, which offers the opportunity to purchase surplus food. With every purchase, you not only support the reduction of food waste, but also provide two meals a day for schoolchildren in Malawi, together with our partner Mary's Meals Germany e.V.
Have you ever rescued food or participated in dumpster diving?
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