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1 food .......................
2 ....................... date
3 everyday ................
4 ........................ site
5 consumer ...............
6 ............ ready meals
7 ....................... time
8 ..................... stores
9 ........................ bag
10 .......................... TV
11 ..................... onion
12 ................. cabbage
4 Fill in: discarded, tucking into , edible, afford
to, rummaged , pitying , recycle , tempted to .
1 We can’t ........................................... buy a new
refrigerator this month; we’ll have to wait until
payday.
2 Shelley .................................... through the pile
of second-hand clothes for something she liked.
3 Simon took out the biscuits and .......................
the packaging in the nearest bin.
4 Jo gave the homeless girl a ...............................
look; she felt so sorry for her.
5 Sam must be hungry! Look at him ....................
............................ his scrambled eggs!
6 Don’t throw away things you don’t need;
.......................... them.
7 Don’t eat wild mushrooms; many aren’t ...........
............................ .
8 The chocolates were so delicious that Katy was
.................................. eat them all!
5 Fill in: flat-screen , steamed , landfill, closing ,
needs , roasted , waste, poisoning, sell-by,
frozen , high-street, sealed. Use the phrases to
make sentences based on the text.
Vocabulary Bank 1 p. VB4
Speaking & Writing
7 Do some Internet research to
find out about more ways to reduce
consumer waste. Use the following key
words: ways to reduce waste . Report back
to the class.
ICT
U nder the cover of night, I lift the lid of the dustbin and
shine in my torch. It’s below zero and my hands are
shaking as I rummage inside. I’m on the hunt for food. But I’m
not homeless and I could certainly afford to go to the shops if I
wanted to. So, why am I doing this? Quite simply, I’m living as a
freegan.
Freeganism— a combination of the words ‘free’and ‘vegan’— is
a movement whose devotees take responsibility for the impact
of their consumer choices and find alternative ways of meeting
their everyday needs. Around 17 million tons of food are buried
in British landfill sites every year, four million of which are
edible.
Searching in bins for food sounds disgusting, not to mention
embarrassing. There's also the possibility of food poisoning. So,
just how easy is it to live on discarded food? I met up with two
London freegans, Ash Falkingham, 21, and Ross Parry, 46, for a
crash course. It was 5 pm and dark enough for no one to see us.
Ash and Ross went to a supermarket wheelie bin in South
London, lifted the lid and started sorting through the contents.
Clear plastic bags contained frozen ready meals.
Underneath were 10 tubs of luxury ice cream.
Ash and Ross live entirely from ‘urban foraging’. They visit
markets after closing time and the bins of supermarkets and
high-street stores. A trip to India inspired Ross to adopt the
freegan lifestyle. “In India, they don’t waste anything.
That’s how they live. In the West, everything goes to landfill
sites.”
Back in their van, I tucked into some chocolate-mocha slices
while Ross and Ash told me about the time a group of freegans
found a bin full of 200
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frozen chickens and another with a flat-screen TV.
Too embarrassed to go on my own, I roped in my friend Dave!
As Dave and I set off on the first day, it was freezing cold.
Eventually, we found a supermarket rubbish bin that hadn’t
been locked away and ... bingo! There was a plastic bag full of
vegetables so, while Dave held the lid open, I climbed up,
balanced on the side and reached in. But the sealed bag
was full of potatoes, apples and carrots, and there was nothing
wrong with them. As we got our free food, we discussed
possible menus and decided on soup. Dessert was baked
freegan apples with cinnamon and almonds — delicious.
On the second morning, I didn’t feel ill — a good start — so we
tucked into our freegan breakfast of avocados and bread.
On the menu that night was a spicy noodle soup with
green peppers, carrots from the previous day and some
steamed cabbage on the side.
On the final day, I got my first freegan lamp and again, we found
enough food to dine like kings: sausages, greens and roasted
onion. Although three days is a short time to live as a freegan,
I've already got a much better sense of how much food is
unnecessarily condemned to landfill. I'm tempted to continue
with my freegan lifestyle.
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scavenge, discarded, consumer waste, lid, rummage,
devotee, landfill site, edible, intact, sell-by date,
urban foraging, tuck into, rope in, pitying, sealed,
steamed, roasted, condemn, be tempted to
Check these words
6 Imagine you spent a day as a
freegan. Describe your experience to the
class.
Think!