Behind the smiles and the pride of being able to spread this joy to others and satisfaction to send a strong signal to the outside world by Fabian Vennekilde, Mikael Miehs Andersen and Mira Suljic better than many, that the three ‘skralderes’ spontaneous gavebod of collected food and non-food goods has been a sad background.
There was only a few minutes on this warm spring day in February, so was the corner in front of the nobel park, Aarhus University, in addition to one of the city’s most trafficked intersection between the Principal and the ringstrasse and filled with dozens of curious students. They had out of the windows followed the trio’s establishment of a gavebod in the best sense, and right in front of a well-chosen target market personified by the many students, who often have a strained economy, while they educate themselves.
Scores of particular students visited on Monday afternoon the spontaneous gavebod, as three volunteers food and non-food fundraisers set up after having spent five hours the previous night to collect between three and four tons of food, furniture, clothing, etc. Photo: Anita Graversen
Tag, what you will have. So, we avoid more waste than necessary, shouting the 30-year-old Fabian Vennekilde considering to drop his job as a chef in Taastrup, near Copenhagen for the benefit of a life full-time as unpaid ‘ratchets’.
For him, as for Mikael Miehs Andersen, who has devoted the last seven years of his life to combat food waste and overuse as kontanthjælpsmodtager and unpaid ratchets, the smiles and the gratitude of the recipients of the many goods pay enough in itself.
– We are to sacrifice the whole of the next generation that we can live in luxury, and if no one does anything like us here and now, so burn the world together, sooner than we can imagine, say, Fabian Vennekilde.
While Fabian Vennekildes disinterested action is of recent date, has Mikael Miehs Andersen only got the stuff, smile and pat on the back for its work to pick up garbage for seven years now.
– I do it because I think it is something cursed filth that society has evolved in a direction, so that the people discarding food and things on a scale and of a nature, so you think it’s a lie, says 43-year-old Mikael Miehs Andersen.
He and Fabian Vennekilde came into contact with the female third of the trio, Mira Suljevic, via social media
Mira Suljevic (tv.), Fabian Vennekilde and Mikael Miehs Andersen (th.) came together via social media to make the voluntary collection of discarded food and non-food goods in the Aarhus area on the night of Monday. The trio scattered obvious delight among the many especially students from Aarhus University, who came and took care of the good food. Photo: Anita Graversen
– I’m not a really ‘ratchets’, but passionate about sustainability and are working in a second hand store here in Aarhus. The two things leans, however, to one another, and when I found out that I could make a difference by helping Fabian and Michael in a few hours, I did not, ” says 27-year-old Mira Suljevic, who is studying nordic language and culture at the University of Aarhus in the red buildings just a few meters from the colorful mix of duvets, blankets, bléer, luxury salamis, beer, chocolate milk, furniture, bread, sausages, cold cuts, sneakers, clothing, sports bags, eggs and tomatoes, to mention just a sampling of the many items for free pick-up service.
Fabian, Michael and Mira recognises that fatigue is felt after a night without sleep. A quick calculation says that each particular must have lifted several tons, if we assume that they have had a hold of the up to four tons of goods at least two times. The only sponsorship support, the trio has scored, is the refrigerated trailer and van, as the goods are loaded up in.
Supermarkets such as Netto, Fakta, Aldi and the Meny and chain stores like Jysk, Jem & Fix, Harald Nyborg, has contributed to the ‘party’ at the university, where most of the goods for an estimated total value of between 80 and 100,000 dollars on Monday in the late afternoon already allocated, after just three hours of spontaneous gavebod.
– most supermarkets do not outwardly say yes to, that we ratchets their kassérede goods, but they can also easily see all the benefits of it. Of course, we have ensured that it is garbage and only garbage in all the places we have garbage, says Mikael Miehs Andersen.
Fabian Vennekilde adds that should there unexpectedly be the goods back, when darkness falls, so will the popular trio, of course, take them with.
– If we have not cleared up nicely for us, would all this not make sense, does it sound consistent from Fabian Vennekilde and Mira Suljevic.
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Students: We peel since even
As skraldertrioen Fabian Vennekilde, Mikael Miehs Andersen and Mira Suljevic on Monday had packed the remains of their gavebod together at the University of Aarhus, estimated that there had been about 1000 buyers of the up to four tons of free goods.
Ekstra Bladet spoke with some of the first who rushed to. Common to them was that either they themselves are ratchets or know someone who is.
Peter Mikkelsen admire the free goods in the square at the University of Aarhus. Photo: Anita Graversen
– I ratchets itself regularly. With an available balance of 1700 dollars it can be a big help to use the time and energy to do it. For example, the buyer I never fish, says Peter Mikkelsen, 20, and students 2. semester of cognitive science.
Peter Mikkelsen adds that he has several fellow students, which also ratchets.
The same with the two theology students at the 2. semester Laura Vilsgaard Emperor and Simone Nielsen.
The two theology students, Laura Vilsgaard Emperor and Simone Nielsen on respectively 22 and 21 years old, held not back at the many free goods, which was ‘served’ right in front of them. Photo Anita Graversen
– It is sick, so many items, and as nothing fails. See, for example, the many luksusspegepølser, which can stick to sometime in may, says Laura Vilsgaard Emperor, who has lived in a dormitory, where a ratchets often filled the fridge with kassérede food.
Simone Nielsen adds:
– It’s a great way to do it. It creates awareness about something important and beneficial to an audience as us students who really enjoy to be able to get its hands on so fine goods, as nothing fails.
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the Facts about food waste
14,000 tonnes – so much so, the danes have reduced their food waste in the years from 2011 to 2017.
the Danes, who live in apartment blocks, taking the lead and have reduced their food waste by 24 percent per. person, while the food waste in one-family houses is unchanged.
Total Danish households reduced food waste by eight percent per. person in the course of the last six years. All Danish households had a food waste 261.000 tonnes in 2011/2012 – this figure has fallen to 247.000 tonnes in 2017. the
Sources: Environment and Food ministry and the environmental protection Agency, the report ‘Mapping of the composition of municipal waste and kildesorteret organic waste from households’, numbers from 2018.
