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Melbourne men cut household spending by more than A $100 a week in one way, but not everyone liked, according to Radio 9.
Melbourne man Polly (Rick Pauley) started the "garbage Taobao" campaign earlier this year to retrieve daily groceries from residents` bins and bring them home. Now, he goes out almost every night to look for food in the garbage can.
Polly said he used to spend A $100 to A $200 a week to support himself, his wife and three children, but now he spends almost nothing.
He has found a load of groceries filled with cheese, chicken, pastries, yogurt and drinks in trash bins of different retailers. Some of the things you don`t need can also be distributed to other "junk Taobao" people.
Polly says he rarely finds rotten food.
At present, more and more "junk Taobao" such as Australia, on the one hand, they save their own expenses, on the other hand, also reduce food waste.
Members of such groups, including Melbourne`s The Freegan Co-op and Sydney`s Dumpster Diving Sydney, are growing steadily on Facebook.
Traders and industry agencies lose 2.2 million tonnes of food a year, while consumers throw away 3.1 million tonnes of usable food, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy said, according to the Ministry of Environment and Energy, (Department of the Environment and Energy). Food waste has cost the Australian economy about A $20 billion.
While some big supermarket chains such as Woolworths will work with food rescue groups such as OzHarvest, there are limits on food donations.
A spokesman for OzHarvest said the group received 180 tons of donated food a week and distributed it to charities. But there is still a lot of work to be done about change food donation regulations.
Spokesmen from Coles and Woolworths, who donated millions of tons of food in 2018, said supermarkets remain committed to curbing food waste.
A spokesman for Aldi also said the supermarket would discard goods only if they were not suitable for use or consumption.
