Garbage picking
Containers, also called garbage diving or Dumpstern, called the entrainment of discarded food from waste containers.
The containers usually takes place in waste containers from supermarkets, but also in factories. The food is thrown away usually because of past best-before dates, printing and Gammel points or as surplus. However, many of these foods are without significant taste and loss of quality and without any increased health risk for a certain time enjoyable.
Background
Among the people who feed on container waste, on the one hand are people in need and on the other hand political activists who put it this way a stand against the waste of food in large quantities or the food industry does not want to support through consumption.
Containers is the best known practice of Freeganismus and an integral part of this area of life based on extensive consumerism and a boycott of the so-called throwaway society.
Networking
Since they often find much of a product, but rarely a balanced selection of the waste to some Containerer network: So the fruit and vegetable collective has split the streets and neighborhoods in Vienna. After the containers meet the individual groups, and exchange their goods from.
Court
Germany
In Germany, waste that is collected in appropriate containers on private land such as supermarkets or factories and provided the municipal and private city cleaning companies for disposal, attributed to the property of Wegwerfers or property owner after the fall right up to the collection. However, the underlying environmental law pursues this only purpose is to regulate obligations of producers and disposers of waste, and to assign the resulting from breach of duty liability, especially for environmental damage. The waste removal by containers is not a criminal offense if it can be seen in the particular case that the waste producer can not have a serious interest in the retention of the thing. A complaint of theft is to be considered in such cases as an inadmissible abuse of rights according to § 226 BGB, since it only comes to inflicting harm to someone else. When unauthorized entry fenced land but can be realized the offense of trespassing if the property owner provides criminal complaint. But since it consistently is low-value things and is usually only an exhortation is made by an employee of the owner upon discovery and made no complaint, no prosecution is brought regularly. If, nevertheless, a criminal complaint, the proceeding is usually set due to insignificance against a support. 2004 got the containers from Cologne was accused of " stealing Community in a very serious case ." The process was set against the obligation to afford 60 hours of community service.
In May 2009, the Parliament of Saxony employed after a little request of the Left Party with the criminal assessment of Containerns. The trigger was an initiated against two Containerer investigation. In the meantime, already the Bautzen prosecution had closed the case because there is no particular public interest in prosecution and was the operator of the supermarket reimbursed no display. In a press release of March 2012, the Left Party called at the presentation of a study on food waste by Federal Minister for Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner on the Federal Government to provide the 'containers ' impunity for food.
In June 2013, the Aachen Regional Court overturned a judgment of Düren district court that had sentenced two Containerer for theft to fines. The case was closed without any support, because the case was too small and there was no public interest in prosecution.
Austria
According to Austrian law provides containers in principle no offense, since waste is considered ownerless thing when no property damage perpetrated such as by breaking locks.
Switzerland
Markus Melzel, spokesman for the Basel prosecutor: " What is discarded and is not intended for third parties, belongs to no one more. If you do not climb over a fence or must break a lock to get to the goods, then there is nothing wrong against the containers. "