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Welcome to Trashwiki, the collaborative world wide guide of creating value from trash!
It is written for and by dumpster divers, freegans and others of such kind. Here you will find plenty of trash-related articles: you can search by specific countries, by places like markets, by food types, etc. We already have 881 articles on trash and living for free. You can find precise descriptions of how to get rid of your trash in a sustainable manner, how to sensibly recuperate trash, how to share and get stuff for free, and much much more...
- Dec 2017 - ePetetion to the German Bundestag released to make dumpster diving legal.
- Feb 4, 2017 - First German supermarket to sell only waste food, The Good Food
- July 13, 2016 - Dumpstermap.org, a collaborative map for sharing dumpster diving locations has been released.
- February 4, 2014 - 3 dumpster divers convicted of stale food theft in France — sad day for dumpster diving in France.
- April 15, 2014 - We started an interesting article here: How to prevent dumpster diving.
- April 5, 2014 - FallingFruit.org/freegan - Falling Fruit launches their global freegan map, meticulously assembled from data all across the internet (including all the locations on Trashwiki).
- January, 2014 - Three charged with stealing food from skip behind supermarket in the UK writes The Guardian.
- December, 2013 - Research on dumpster diving in UK. Please fill in the survey. Results will be shared on trashwiki.
- August 31, 2013 - Some of the folks behind Trashwiki have started Moneyless.org, a website with a lot of information about living without money.
- July 16, 2013 - Let's work on a collaborative submission to an EU Food Waste consultation
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Dumpster Diving Maps
- Dumpstermap.org - Worldwide Dumpster Diving Map
- Fallingfruit.org Gathering of the most freegans maps (mostly trees) - Add new location by manually pinpoint on the map.
- Worldwide Dumpster Diving Google Map - lists a lot of spots in the US and Finnland - Add new location easily by typing place name or address.
- another Worldwide Dumpster Diving Google Map - listst a lot of spots in Sweden and Portugal
- Dumpstermap.com - Yet to improve map (a bit tricky to add new spots)
