S HA R I N G i s CARING
TUNTREET
Pauline Marie Søndenå Translator
Iris van Brunschot Journalist
Lina Photographer
Food waste is a topic that has received a lot of attention in both the media and politics lately. In Norway, more than 390 000 tons of edible food is thrown away every year, which is equivalent to the weight of 19 500 trucks. With such frightening numbers, it is easy to think that we have fallen into an infinitelu deep hole without a way out. Luckily, we have plenty of committed students and local residents in Ås who contribute to the solution on how to get out of this hole.
NMBU foodsharing For a long time, fighting food waste among the students at NMBU has been a big interest. NMBU Foodsharing started up three years ago as a part of Spire, an environmental organization, only as a shelf in the ABC-basement. Here, students who were going away could leave food they no longer needed. The shelf quickly developed to become a place where people left food they had found while dumpster diving. The local team of Spire began to think how the project could be better managed, and eventually they created NMBU Foodsharing, a group on Facebook. Eva Helene Nagelhus, who was involved in the start-up phase of the project, tells us that NMBU Foodsharing is not an organization, but an initiative everyone can participate in. “The Facebook group has now developed into a platform where students can find both fellow students to dumpster dive with, and to put out the food they have found in the dumpsters to share with others”. She emphasizes that it should be an environment where you can do exactly what you want and have the capacity to. Today the Facebook group has nearly 900 members, so it is clear that the topic is of big interest. But how many people in Ås actually know what “dumpster diving” is? And why do the students at NMBU search for food in dumpsters?
Are you a member of the Facebook group FOODSHARING NMBU? Er du medlem i Facebook gruppa FOODSHARING NMBU? 199 replies
199 svar
Ja, jeg er medlem Yes, I am a member Ja, jeg er aktivt medlem (legger ut og deler) Yes, active member (publishing, sharing)
Not member, but I’d like Nei, jeg er ikke medlem, mentovil gjerne være Nei, er det? No, hva what is it?
16% of students would rather join the group
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