
English: 
Freeganism: Alternative lifestyle based 
 in the boycott of consumerism
through the limited consume of resources 
 and reuse of waste.
Decentralized movement that combines freedom 
 and absence of money
resisting consumerism 
 besides the vegan lifestyle.
Freeganism expands to anarchy 
 refusing everything that involves human exploitation.
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Portuguese: 
DESPERDÍCIO DESPERDIÇADO 
 Um filme de Pedro Serra

English: 
This is one of the most 
 disgusting garbages.
But... 
 Well...
I don't like labels, 
 from any kind.
Never liked.
Like "Ah this person is Freegan 
 and needs to do this and that of the list
Otherwise is not Freegan".
No, I don't agree with that. 
 Actually...
That's why I never used 
 this word for myself.
I just do it 
 with pleasure.
And I would like that 
 other people
realize that 
 money is not necessary
And that we can live happy 
 in our own way

English: 
This can go as well... 
 This too.
Not more because 
 we don't have enough space in the fridge.
If you want to take 
 the salads, take.
And look, this is to show 
 the waste that exists.
All this food 
 going to the garbage.
The subject of Freeganism...
 I don't use this word very often.
I just knew 
 that word recently
And saw that the 
 description of it is...
Ok, instead of renting a house 
 you occupy.
Instead of buying food 
 you recycle it.
So, everything that involves money 
 you try to avoid it.
You will try to don't 
 go in the circle of money
And don't go in this circle 
 that doesn't end if you don't quit it.

English: 
I'm Freegan 
 since 1996.
Freeganism is a lifestyle... 
 An alternative lifestyle.
Where the individual tries to boycott 
 the rampant consumerism.
The problem is that 
 people are addicted to consume.
It's an addiction, 
 it's a drug.
People are going to malls 
 and they need to buy, buy, buy...
And they earn their money 
 and they have to buy this and that.
People have to start value 
 the small things in life.
Annona, 
 annona.
Nowadays I use 
 very little money.
I recycle food once a week.
And I take enough to keep 
 myself for all week.

English: 
So I go to the supermarkets 
 to recycle these unusable products.
And I find very interesting stuff, 
 very good things.
I collect rain water.
I take shower and cook 
 with collected rain water.
I make cookery courses 
 and also cook for events.
And this way 
 I can have enough money.
Although the idea of the Freeganism concept 
 is to become self-sufficient.
Inside Freeganism 
 there are several sides.
There are Freegans 
 collecting anything in trash.
Even animal corpses, eggs, 
 milk, cheese...
They collect everything.
Because they aren't financing 
 the industry.

English: 
For me, the concept 
 of the word "Freegan"is Vegan.
For example, other day 
 I found a Coca-Cola bottle
closed, sealed 
 just with a cut plastic.
Not even expired, 
 everything was in perfect conditions.
- In the garbage? 
 - In the garbage.
But I didn't take that! 
 Because to me that is not food.
Got it?
The same if I find eggs. 
 I won't take it!
Because for me that's not food.
The thing is, 
 people need to learn
to peel more 
 and unpack less.
Nowadays when we go to 
 the supermarket
The supermarket sells lots of crap 
 and then some food.
The problem is that 
 we see manufactured products,
as food. 
 But they are not food.
I'm an anarchist by nature. 
 I believe in self management.

Portuguese: 
- No lixo?

English: 
Because that thing of being served 
 it's really annoying.
And having employees working for you 
 I already had that!
I had all of that, 
 I already was a successful business man.
I had employees, 
 I had all of that.
But increasingly less 
 it makes sense to me.
What do I do? 
 I do several things!
I do... 
 Everything that doesn't involve money.
Instead of to get a job,
I preferred to start making 
 several other things,
that allow me 
 to do not spend money,
in several things 
 indispensable to daily life,
that the money you earn working 
 allow you to buy.
Not self-sufficient 
 but really close to it.

English: 
When I finished university 
 I created a company with a friend.
But at certainly time 
 I thought that what we were doing...
Was giving us some money, 
 But was not making the World a better place.
And we were working very much. 
 Very much, you know?
During years and years 
 I didn't have vacations.
I was working 
 7 days a week.
I was in service 
 24 hours a day
Whenever it was need.
So I thought that 
 Ok I'm making money
but this is not 
 what I want.
It's not what I want for me, 
 neither the results for the world,
are what I would like 
 it would be.
So that time came 
 when I thought I need a change.
That change was 
 to sell my part of that company,
Buy this house.
Changed car. 
 I had a 80.000€ SUV

English: 
And I thought 
 I don't need this car.
So I changed 
 I have a small hybrid car now.
I'd like to leave this car 
 to have an electric car.
Because, 
as I collect many things,
essentially materials, 
 not having a car is not viable.
So I'm pondering to buy 
 an used electric car.
There are some at reasonable prices, 
 I can give mine in change.
And have solar panels 
 or other way to produce my own electricity.
So no longer depend 
 on oil companies.
As I spend few money I don't 
 depend on large distributors...
So, what I want to say 
 with all of this enumeration is,
I don't refuse to have a relationship 
 with these companies.
My idea is to minimize 
 as much as possible.
And I don't need to make the sacrifice 
 of having no relations with these companies.

English: 
I prefer to keep my comfortable life 
 of the twenty-first century citizen.
But minimizing the consumptions, 
 expenses and all that stuff.
At that time when I started pondering 
 to sell my part of the company,
There was a time 
 when I was feeling sick,
I felt physically ill 
 So I visited a doctor,
And the doctor said,
"You don't have anything. 
 What you need is a time schedule
"To sleep well, 
 eat well,
"rest, etc."
And in that moment 
 that famous quote by Dalai Lama,
"You work in order to have money, 
 then you spend it to recover your health."
You know what I mean?
This is stupid!
Figure it out,
People sleep an average 
 of 8 hours a day,
Then one or two hours 
 for basic needs.
Taking shower, 
 brushing teeth, etc.

English: 
Then looses one or two hours 
 going and return from work.
Looses approximately one hour 
 in social networks.
Working 6 to 8 hours a day.
Do the math, 
 how much time is left for you?
For your family, 
 your friends,
your children...
To read...
People have their senses 
 so exhausted,
that they use the 
 consumption system
To give a relief 
 to their suffering.

Portuguese: 
Porquê que pessoas como nós 
 sabem o que é um edredom?
Será isto essencial à sobrevivência 
 no sentido caçador-recolector?
Não.
O que somos nós, então?
Não sei. 
 Consumidores.
Certo. Somos consumidores.
Somos subprodutos de uma obsessão 
 com o estilo de vida.

English: 
The average citizen 
 sells 8 hours a day of his life,
To have money and 
 arrive at home
and sit in front of 
 his television,
eating food 
 that is bad for him,
So, burn more 2 or 3 hours 
 of his life,
and then go to sleep 
 8 hours.
So this day of his life...
Was obliterated, 
 disappeared!
It didn't worth anything!
if it worth something, 
 it was for something bad for his life.
To make him more sick, more angry 
 more depressed, etc.
LIVES WITHOUT MONEY 
 SINCE 2008

Portuguese: 
Homicídio, crime, pobreza. 
 Essas coisas não me preocupam.
O que me preocupa são 
 revistas de celebridades,
televisão com 500 canais,
As pessoas sempre me perguntam,
porquê que eu vivo sem dinheiro.
E hoje há infinitas razões 
 para eu viver sem dinheiro.
Já não é só uma razão.
Mas, eu posso dizer-vos algumas hoje...

Portuguese: 
A primeira foi uma percepção,
que vários problemas sociais e ambientais,
como destruição ambiental, 
 empobrecimento dos oceanos,
lojas de roupa, 
 fábricas, desflorestação...
Todas estas as coisas pelas que 
 pagamos, para que façam o serviço por nós.
E estas coisas suportam 
 a nossa ilusão de que estamos separados da Natureza.
Nós não estamos aparte da Natureza.
E acentuam também o facto 
 de que estamos muito desconectados do que consumimos.
Então, por causa deste fosso 
 entre o consumidor e o consumo,
deixámos de ter apreciação 
 da energia que foi depositada nas coisas,
de toda a destruição associada, 
 do sofrimento,
entre todas as coisas que compramos 
 da cadeia de abastecimento.
Porque nós nunca temos de ver 
 estas pessoas.
A ferramenta que permite que esta 
 desconexão aconteça,
é o dinheiro.
Especialmente no formato global 
 como o vemos hoje.
Então... Vou dar-vos alguns exemplos.
Se nós todos 
 produzíssemos a nossa própria comida,

English: 
When people talk with me 
 think,
Well, his life 
 must be ultra radical,
He has a compost toilet, 
 he produces his own food,
He doesn't have a job, 
 and this and that...
WOW it must be insane!
And then people come to my house, 
 talk to me,

Portuguese: 
não desperdiçaríamos 1/3 dela 
como fazemos no Reino Unido actualmente.
Se tívessemos de fazer as nossas próprias 
 mesas e cadeiras,
não as deitaríamos fora, 
 no momento em que decidíssemos renovar o décor.
Se tivéssemos de tomar responsabilidade 
 pela água que bebemos,
aposto que a maioria de vocês 
 não urinavam ou defecavam nela.
Não faria muito sentido urinar 
 ou defecar em água potável.
Então, até que nos reconectemos 
 com aquilo que consumimos,
e estou a falar duma economia 
 completamente localizada,
até que não nos reconectemos 
 com aquilo que nós consumimos,
todos estes sintomas, 
 todos estes problemas sociais e ecológicos
vão continuar, 
 porque não estamos a ir ao fundo da questão,
que é a nossa separação da Natureza 
 e a separação daquilo que consumimos.

English: 
see my daily life, 
 and think,
"No, actually...
 It's not so different.
He takes hot showers, 
 he cooks..."
I mean, It's everything very similar, 
 Practically the same!
It was something that 
 I wanted to say
This is it! 
 In the idea of sum up to the fundamental is,
What means "sustainable"?
And for me, 
 a guy who came from maths,
everything needs 
 to be defined.
For me, 
 "sustainable" means,
A consume is sustainable,
If you can multiply this consumption 
 for 7.5 Billion people on the Planet.
And there are enough 
 renewable resources,
To support this consumption.
If this isn't possible, 
 Is not sustainable.
In the core 
 there is always this concept,
Profit.
It's because of profit, 
 that 1% has half of the world's wealth.
If the companies that are giving 
 that wealth to those people,
were not making profit,

Portuguese: 
- Que foi? 
 - As coisas que você possui, acabam por possui-lo.

English: 
Just paying the elements 
 that are consuming,
and the work 
 of their employees,
Besides taxes, 
 and other stuff.
The owners of those companies 
 wouldn't be owners of half of the planet.
Those 1% of the world's population 
 that have half of the world's wealth,
Did they came steal anything 
 from our pockets?
They didn't.
It was ourselves 
 who voluntarily,
took our money
to give to them.
In most cases, 
 in change
of unnecessary stuff, 
 in my opinion.
My purpose 
 would be to learn where the things emerge.
Where my lettuce emerges, 
 my electricity

Portuguese: 
SEM PENSAMENTO INDEPENDENTE
CONSUMA
LIQUIDAÇÃO TOTAL
OBEDEÇA, CONSUMA, VEJA TV, 
 COMPRE, CONFORME-SE, TRABALHE 8 HORAS...

English: 
if I can produce it or not.
What I can do for myself
to sustain me.
I don't wanna pay to someone 
 to my own sustain.
People need to understand that...
They have to make something 
 for their own life,
and not to have to pay to everybody 
 to make things that we could do!
I'm not against people 
 having a job.
Not against people being paid 
 for a job.
What I think it's wrong is 
 the need
of people prostitute 
 themselves for 8 hours
of their lifes 
 everyday day.
In order to buy unnecessary stuff. 
 Things that they don't need.
Prostitution... 
 What about this definition:
Prostitution is the practice

Portuguese: 
ESTE É O SEU DEUS

English: 
of someone doing anything 
 in change of money,
so, doing something that 
 otherwise that person wouldn't do.
Ok?
So, if we define prostitution as,
someone doing something for money 
 something that otherwise wouldn't do...
Well... 
 So, 90% of the people
are going to work 
 to prostitute themselves.
If there is sex involved, or not 
 that's a secondary subject.
What can we do then?
From my point of view 
 the best we can do
it's not to consume.
This is it! 
 As simple as that!
Ridiculously simple. 
 But that's it.
Because if we stop to consume 
 we stop to give money
to who has much more money 
 than what should be allowed.
And what matters is not money. 
 It's having resources.

English: 
We stop to sell a part of our lives 
 everyday
to buy those things.
And we stop to foment 
 the continued extraction and depletion of resources
to produce those things...
That... In the end 
 are not so necessary.
That's it.
Subsist, for me and 
 for the people around me,
talking about food 
 and all the things that we need,
I can absolutely 
 subsist without money.

Portuguese: 
Tu não és o emprego que tens.
Não és o dinheiro que tens no banco.
Não és o carro que conduzes.
Nem o que tens dentro da tua carteira.
Não és a calça que vestes.
Tu és o mesmo lixo ambulante 
 que qualquer outro no mundo.

Portuguese: 
Imaginem isto, 
 vocês não são pobres, têm um emprego
mas obtêm a vossa comida 
 e tudo o resto do lixo.
Do lixo de outra pessoa.
Porquê haveria alguém de fazer isso 
 se ganha dinheiro e tem uma casa?
Fazem-no por principio.

English: 
But... Because I abdicated 
 voluntarily
of things that for me 
 were unnecessary.
I saw myself going to a shop 
 to buy a t-shirt just because was beautiful and nice
and then I thought 
 "Why? Why am I contributing to this?"
For many years this is 
 a principle that I put in everything
that I do 
 or that I wanna do.
And it's like 
 "how can I make my things without spending money?"
Or spending as little money 
 as possible.
And basically 
 you have two solutions,
Or you build your things 
 on your own,
Or you recycle.

English: 
I think that... 
 throughout my life,
I eliminated several 
 "necessities"
that the system sells to us 
 as indispensable.
Or I eliminated 
 or I took care about it by myself.
For example, I learned about construction 
 because it's needed to patch a wall...
To make a conduit,
or other things...
If I don't want to have to work a week 
 to pay a day of work of a plumber,
Maybe I need to learn 
 how to do it.
Of course that throughout life 
 there were plumbing that broke!
But with time everything get better.
And basically, 
 this is the way.
This is the fundamental point.
Today... 
 We can live,
with the resources that 
 a century ago only kings had.
But today the average citizen 
 considers that as living poor.

English: 
But if we gather our today's knowledge,
which a century ago didn't exist,
we can live very well 
 with few resources.
For me this is 
 what Freeganism means.
Everybody can be Freegan
from the moment that decides 
 to fight against this extreme capitalism.
And starts to think 
 "What I'm gonna do to the supermarket?"
"I'm going to buy this and that, 
 Is there any other way?"
"What happens to damaged products 
 from this supermarket?"
"Does anyone recycle it 
 or is it going to the trash?"
Which is the reality. 
 There are many people that don't know it.
Many people don't know that 
 damaged products
and products that aren't 
 within the standards of perfection for sale,
go to a container.
And that container isn't accessible 
 to the people.
Because if you go to a container 
 to get a bread,

English: 
you aren't going to Pingo Doce (supermarket) 
 to take a bread.
It means that they loose profit.
It's not good for them to loose profit.
That's why they block 
 the accessibility to the garbage containers.
Unfortunately they open packages... 
 They leave it like this...
- These lettuces are good.
We found mushrooms... 
 What's more...
Lots of tomatos.
- We will make pizzas. 
 -This doesn't fit in the car.
It's the usual situation 
 needs to be well washed.
What happens me more 
 it's to find opened packages.
I tried to communicate with them 
 to ask if they couldn't give me the trash bags.
We cannot give it to you 
 otherwise we get fired.
That's the fear they 
 instill in them.
Then what they do is to open 
 and spread all the good food.
Like soups, they open it 
 and spread them.

English: 
Many times we get angry 
 because we can't recycle anything.
Sometimes they put detergent.
We could see it mainly in vegetables 
 I don't know why...
We could smell and see bubbles 
 and it's frustrating.
Because you could see 
 a giant bag with tons of fruits,
Which sometimes we didn't take for us 
 but to give to people with animals.
And animals eat smashed fruits 
 chickens love it.
Something very important is...
I never attacked the employees 
 who were telling me that they couldn't give it to me.
I always said 
 "Ok, I understand.
But at least, 
 don't open the packages."
"See what is happening! 
 Really, see!"
"This is food! 
 Not the brain washing they making to you,
that this needs to be destroyed 
 and not recycled."
"No, that's a lie! 
 There are many things to be recycled."
- A package of plums! 
 - Why is this going to trash?
- Look, why a good onion 
 is going to trash?

English: 
We have to search 
 and rummage in the trash
between disgusting stuff, 
 between glasses...
But it's how it needs 
 to be done.
We have to put 
 ourselves in risk,
in order to avoid 
 all this food waste
and it's not only food...
It's also toilet products, 
 for example.
It's everything you can imagine 
 that there is in the supermarket.
Like a ripped depilatory 
 wax bands box,
Is going to trash as well!
Together with a deodorant!
Everything is going 
 to the same trash can.
Even paper! 
 I've never found this before.
Paper!
- I'm not sure if they fit in there. 
 - They do.
This is to make sauce, 
 let's boil this very well.
And with some spices that I have 
 it will be very good.
I think in what I could rescue 
 and in the million things

Portuguese: 
Até papel! 
 Olha, esta cena nunca me tinha acontecido! 
Papel! 
- Não sei se cabem. 
 - Cabem.
Isto também é para molho. 
 Vamos ferver isto bem.
Com umas especiarias que eu tenho ali. 
 Bem, vai ficar mesmo bom.

English: 
that I couldn't rescue.
Things that could feed 
 millions of families.
1/3 OF THE FOOD 
 ENDS UP IN THE TRASH
870 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE COULD BE FED 
 ONLY WITH THE WORLD'S WASTED FOOD
EACH EUROPEAN WASTES 180 KG 
 OF FOOD EVERY YEAR

English: 
198.000 HECTARES ARE USED TO PRODUCE FOOD 
 THAT IS NEVER CONSUMED
ABOUT THE SIZE 
 OF MEXICO
3,6 MILLION KG OF FOOD 
 IS WASTED EVERYDAY
2000 KG 
 EVERY MINUTE
870 MILLION OF PEOPLE COULD BE FED 
 ONLY WITH THE WORLD'S WASTED FOOD

Portuguese: 
Mesmo nos países mais ricos, 
 milhões de pessoas passam fome.
É privação 
 num mar de abundância.
A produção de comida exige 
 terrenos, água,
 combustíveis fósseis e terra.
A tragédia é que os produtores 
 não conseguem vender metade do que produzem,
devido a padrões de beleza
impostos pelos supermercados.
Falhamos em ver a beleza 
 nestes vegetais feios.
E os supermercados radicalmente 
 cancelam pedidos à última da hora.
O que significa que essa comida já produzida 
 vai para o lixo.
Os produtores têm de suportar estes custos, 
 mas a culpa não é deles.
Os supermercados criam propositadamente 
 uma imagem de abundância infinita,

English: 
For me, 
 the feeling of knowing
that a portion of food 
 will feed lots of people
and not going to trash,
makes me a happy person.

Portuguese: 
com o objectivo de terem uma resposta 
 de compras excessivas.
Isto é a estratégia de marketing, 
 que resulta em nós comprarmos mais do que precisamos
e criando montanhas de comida desperdiçada.
Entretanto, datas de limite de consumo 
 confundem os consumidores,
fazendo-os deitar fora 
 o que ainda está bom para comer.
Cafés, pastelarias 
 e restaurantes,
são todos cúmplices 
 deste mundo de excessos.
Produzindo demais para manter 
 um menu completo a qualquer hora.
E servem aos clientes 
 doses enormes,
que eles pagaram, 
 mas na maior parte das vezes não comem.
Grandes corporações têm investido 
 biliões de dólares,
para estudarem a evolução do processo 
 impulsivo de consumir mais e mais.
Mais, mais e mais.
E estas caixas vão se juntar 
 ao desfile de comida que nunca mais acaba.
comida na lua!
Todas as semanas, 
 nós compramos 20 a 30% mais comida
que nós alguma vez comeríamos.
E deitamos o resto no lixo.

English: 
WRITER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

English: 
The problem isn't people 
 taking out what is in the trash.
The problem is people 
 throwing things in the trash!
Got it? 
 So it's a different perspective.

Portuguese: 
Vejam as mercearias, 
 elas acbam o dia com produtos que não podem vender
por se aproximarem 
 do prazo de limite de consumo.
Imensas, 
 talvez a da sua zona.
Estes produtos vêm de quintas e fazendas, 
 não importando a distância ou a época.
As frutas e vegetais 
 que compramos nas lojas,
não é normal 
 parecerem tão perfeitas.
E se uma laranja tiver 
 um leve defeito na casca,
uma pequena marca, 
 que não tem nenhum impacto
na frescura ou sabor, 
 qualidade dessa fruta,
ela é rejeitada.
Que sentido é que isso faz?
Comida são os terrenos,
a comida são as florestas, 
 que temos de destruir para a produzir.
Comida é água, trabalho 
 amor!
Nas nossas casas, 
 nós podemos parar o desperdício alimentar.

English: 
Every week, 
 Raghu and other activists
make vegan meals,
with food in good conditions, 
 rescued from markets,
whose destiny would be the trash.
In the end, they distribute it 
 for free
in one of the oldest areas 
 of Lisbon.
So, today we'll 
 have vegetarian burgers.
Vegans.
Free from violence.
Some vegetables as well.
Carrots and cabbage.
And also rice, 
 salad and bread.
That's the meal 
 that we'll distribute today.
Every week we cook 
 according with what we get.
So, we make different meals.
He is volunteer here 
 helping us
to make 
 delicious burgers,
to be distributed.
Speak a bit about 
 the burger.
So, these burgers 
 are made of food waste.
So this is a recycle 
 what we do here.
It's food waste 
 and we reused it
to make these burgers
and we go to the streets 
 to distribute them.

Portuguese: 
- Boa tarde! 
 - Tudo bem, amigo?
Bem-vindo, bem-vindo! 
 Aceita um pratinho?
Tem cházinho também.
- Isso é o quê? Hambúrguer? 
 - É hambúrguer de legumes.
- É tudo vegetariano, não é? 
 - Aqui é tudo vegetariano.
Aqui é tudo sem violência.
- Aqui não se mata ninguém, para nós comermos. 
 - Não.
Tem aqui para todo o mundo hoje.
O arroz está quentinho, 
 acabei de o fazer.
Foi feito com amor.
- Você gosta de comida vegetariana, amigo? 
 - Gosto.
- É bom, não é? 
 - Só não gosto é de passar fome.

English: 
- Good afternoon! 
 - How are you friend?
Welcome, welcome! 
 Do you accept a meal?
There is tea as well.
- Is this a burger? 
 - It's a vegetable burger.
- It's everything vegetarian, right? 
 - Here is everything vegetarian.
Here is everything 
 free from violence.
- Nobody here kills anyone to feed us. 
 - No.
We have food 
 to everyone today.
And the rice... 
 Is warm I just made it.
Was made with love.
- Do you like vegetarian food? 
 - Yes, what I don't like is to starve.

English: 
- More rice? 
 - Yes, I'd love but I can give you money for that.
- No, no money.
- And you won't take any? 
 - No money, it's free.
- A donation? 
 - No.
Good afternoon, 
 how are you going?
You have bread here too. 
 Do you want?
You don't need?
Good afternoon friend, 
 how are you?
I hope you like 
 it was made with affection.
- Thank you! 
 - You're welcome! It's from my heart.
- Thank you very much!
In my life 
 I was educated
to don't waste food, 
 to don't leave food in the plate.
To eat always everything...
But I had never seen 
 from this side.
That's why 
 it was a shock for me
when I realized this, 
 about one year ago.
I realized that, 
 lots of good food
is going to trash.
And for me 
 it was unconformable
I can't conform 
 knowing that food is being wasted,

Portuguese: 
- Mais arroz? 
 - Sim, eu adoraria,
mas eu posso dar-lhe dinheiro por isso.
- Não, nenhum dinheiro. 
 - Não vai aceitar dinheiro?
- Não, é gratis. 
 - Nem como doação?
- Não.
Boa tarde, 
como vai o senhor, vai bem?
Olhe, tem pãozinho também. 
 Quer pão?
Não precisa de pão?
Boa tarde amigo, 
 como vai, tudo bem?
Olhe e espero que goste, 
 foi feito com carinho.
- Obrigado! 
 - Sem ser obrigado, é de bom coração.
- Não, não, obrigado mesmo!

English: 
and there are lots of families 
 without a cent for buying food.
And there are so many 
 careless people around there.

Portuguese: 
- Podemos levar morangos? 
 - Não querida.
- Por favor! 
 - Ok.

English: 
The waste of food 
 affects thousands of citizens,
has a negative 
 impact in the environment
and causes instability 
 in food sovereignty,
both at an individual 
 and family level.
This dysfunction in the attribution 
 and consumption of food,
reflects a cultural and economic 
 imbalance of our actual society.
PAN comes to propose the donation regulation 
 of surplus food

English: 
and its distribution 
 for social solidarity purposes,
in commercial areas with 
 more than 400m2
to identified operators,
in order to distribute it 
 for people with proven economic shortcomings.
PAN (PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND NATURE) 
 DEPUTY
This is a law 
 that is a mix of two initiatives.
One occurred in France,
and another is ongoing in Italy.
In France this is a 
 sanctioning proposal.
For those who 
 do not comply.
In Italy they encourage 
 who distribute the surplus goods.
In short, it aims at enabling 
 and also to impose
to large commercial areas, 
 over 400m2
to preserve their products 
 in conditions to be consumed,

English: 
but out of date,
in order to not be thrown away.
Then it should be donated 
 to entities
responsible for the distribution of food 
 for people in need.
So, we would have tax benefits 
 for those who comply.
And obviously, sanctions 
 for those that wouldn't do it.
- This proposal was rejected 
 for all political parties, right?
- Yes.
- Why do you think 
 it was rejected?
We tried to ask 
 we tried to understand,
but it was not explained.
There was no statements of vote 
 related to this.
We think that there is 
 still no holistic awareness
acquired by the parliament, 
 political parties and the government,

Portuguese: 
- Esta proposta foi rejeitada por todos os partidos, 
 se não estou em erro.
- Porquê que acha que foi rejeitada?

English: 
about climate change, 
 emissions of greenhouse gases
caused by wasting food.
We know that 1/3 of the 
 food in the world is wasted
throughout the whole chain
since its production 
 until the final consumer.
And this wasted food 
 entails an enormous ecological footprint,
it's responsible for an enormous amount 
 of greenhouse gases emitted,
which are not accounted for 
 or internalized,
and it's important data.
And as we know 
 all of that food waste,
could stop or mitigate 
 the hunger in the world.
We have alerted to several issues,
related with how we produce 
 and we consume food.
What is wrong is this model 
 of infinite growth.

English: 
There is an imposed economic model
which is to grow constantly, 
 to grow annually,
and this growth is done 
 at the expense of finite resources.
That's what we see 
 with the food.
The way how we're producing food
is a wrong and 
 intensive way,
agrotoxic 
 and completely delocalised.
It makes the food travel 
 thousands of kilometers.
What we call 
 "traveling food".
So, we must guarantee 
 self-determination of each nation,
to produce its own food.
And this food 
 must be produced in a healthy way,
in organic farming 
 or in a even more sustainable way.
And ideally 
 locally produced.

English: 
Then, each family, 
 each consumer,
must be aware of the food quantities 
 that needs for the daily routine.
But it's very important to remind 
 that the origin of the food we consume,
it's determinant for the footprint 
 that we are leaving in our Planet;
for the degradation of natural resources 
 that this food producing way causes.
Not just in the origin countries,
in soils that are being erudite,
in forests that are cut, 
 in the water resources that are contaminated,
but also with the greenhouse gases 
 that are being produced.
We can have in our meals, 
 potatoes from Italy,

English: 
carrots from South Africa, 
 beans from Thailand,
calf from Australia, 
 broccoli from Guatemala,
Strawberries from California,
and blueberries from the New Zealand 
 for dessert.
Just the transportation 
 of the food for this meal,
generates 650 times more 
 greenhouse gas effects
than if it was being produced 
 and acquired locally.
The total of kms that these foods 
 need to travel
from the countryside 
 to the table,
is 81 thousand kms.
The equivalent of two entire rounds 
 to the planet Earth.
I repeat, two entire rounds 
 to the planet.
The current model of production 
 and distribution
have serious impacts 
 in the small and medium-sized farmers
that many times 
 are forced to leave the agricultural activity.
Regarding to production 
 in organic farming
is increasingly an opportunity 
 to the Portuguese agriculture.
This production model 
 uses methods

English: 
environmentally friendly,
allowing a sustainable management
and promoting the health care 
 of consumers and producers.
The current model of producing food
is completely illogical.
We are labeling the natural 
 and organic food
as "biologic food".
But we don't label the food 
 produced with agrochemicals
as "agrotoxic food".
It gives a fake sense of security 
 to the citizens that daily consume it.
Eating is a political action 
 and it's in our hands
to make the difference. 
 Thank you.
I think that this is related 
 with the current economic and social model
in which, 
 even in the way how we eat,
is imposed to us 
 standards.
The simple fact 
 that vegetables need to obey
to certain sizes, look, 
 caliber...

English: 
Put tons of food apart
that could be consumed.
A good initiative related with this
is called "Fruta Feia" (Ugly Food)
comes to contradict 
 this way of producing
and this way to sell food.
So, there is a different way to think
about how we produce 
 and consume food
that is urgent.
"Fruta Feia" (Ugly Food) 
 is a consumer cooperative
to fight food waste 
 due to appearance,
since 2013.
What we do is to 
 buy directly from the farmers
those products that 
 they cannot sell
for mere aesthetic reasons.
For being too small, or too big 
 or for having a strange appearance...
With those products 
 we prepare baskets

English: 
to be acquired by the consumers 
 associated to our cooperative.
FOUNDER OF "FRUTA FEIA"
The idea emerged from 
 an identified problem
which was a giant food waste 
 due to appearance
that is an average in Europe of 30% 
 of what each farmer produces.
It means that, in 100 produced potatoes 
 30 I can't commercialize
due to aesthetic reasons.
I realized this problem
and thought that it was no sense.
We needed to find a way
to canalize those products 
 from the farmers
to the consumers that, 
 don't judge quality by appearance.
The quality is the same. 
 It's just an appearance issue.
Because of the size, 
 shape or color.
It's not forbidden to sell it.
But once the consumer don't choose it 
 when going shopping

English: 
it makes the markets reject them 
 and don't buy to the farmers.
Even if the quality is the same.
Our goal is being developed 
 in two different scales.
One is to avoid directly 
 the food waste.
Which nowadays 
is 8,5 tonnes a week.
8,5 tonnes used to be the fruits 
 and vegetables going to trash,
every week,
and it's not going to trash now 
 because we are buying it to the farmers,
and selling it to our consumers.
Basically, it's weekly avoided waste.
This is one of the goals, 
 a very clear goal.
Avoid that waste and all the wasted 
 natural resources associated.
Because we are spending water, 
 energy, soil...
To produce "trash".
We aim to change this paradigm 
 that quality is measured by appearance.
Like, the brighter the apple, 
 the better it is.
We don't believe on that.

Portuguese: 
- Para se ser então cliente da Fruta Feia...

English: 
We think that fruits must be commercialized 
 regardless of their appearance.
- To be a "Fruta Feia" client... 
 - Not client, we don't have clients.
We have associated people.
In a consumer cooperative 
 people are associated to the cooperative.
So, they are part of this goal 
 to reduce food waste.
It's not a shop.
To be associated to the cooperative
people need to register 
 in our website,
which is frutafeia.pt
At the moment we have a waiting list 
 for some of our distributing points.
When we have a vacancy 
 we contact that person
and that person can start 
 collecting the basket every week.
Let's put the crushed tomatoes 
 in a different box
because there are people taking it 
 to make jams, sauce... Ok?
Each consumer has a basket 
 waiting them every week.
They have to let us know 
 if they don't want.
They have a deadline

English: 
to cancel the basket order
or change the size.
That deadline allow us to quantify exactly 
 the quantities we need to prepare the baskets.
If we ordered more 
 than we need
we would be generating waste 
 and working against ourselves.
So this is our logistic 
 in order to achieve a clean chain.
I mean, without to waste 
 in any form.
If by chance, 
 a consumer doesn't come
forgets to come 
 to take the basket
and at 9pm 
 we have baskets missing,
what we do is 
 to donate to "Refood".
In order to do not get any waste 
 in all this process.
"Refood" is a citizenship effort,
community to community,

Portuguese: 
A Refood é um esforço 
 de cidadania,
micro local, 
 comunidade por comunidade,

Portuguese: 
onde os cidadãos rectificam 
 duas mãos da nossa sociedade.
Uma que é a comida 
 em perfeitas condições,
indo para o lixo diáriamente.
E a outra são as pessoas 
 que não têm a alimentação que precisam.
E o que encontrámos foi que 
 essas duas mãos,
são combinadas por um bem.
E esse bem é a boa vontade 
 e disponibilidade de cidadãos,
como voluntários,
que criaram ponte humana 
 entre desperdício e necessidade.
Basicamente, isto é a Refood.
Restaurantes, pastelarias, 
 padarias, supermercados, refeitórios...
Todos os que preparam comida,
no fim do seu dia têm comida preparada 
 que não foi vendida,
que não vai ser vendida 
 no próximo dia,
que vai necessariamente ao lixo.
E nos interceptamos esse processo,
resgantando a comida em boas condições

English: 
where citizens combine two 
aspects of our society.
One is, 
 food in good conditions
going to trash everyday.
And the other is 
 people without the food they need.
And we realized that 
 those two aspects
can be combined by goodwill.
The citizens goodwill 
 and availability.
Working as volunteers,
in order to create a human bridge 
 between waste and need.
Basically, 
 this is "Refood".
Founder of "Refood"
Restaurants, pastries, bakeries, 
 supermarkets, canteens...
All those that 
 prepare food,
in the end of the day 
 have food that wasn't sold
that won't be sold 
 in the next day
so is going to trash.
We intercept this process,
rescuing the food 
 in good conditions

English: 
and distributing 
 for those in need.
What have I done on Planet Earth 
 for 59 years?
I wasn't happy with the answer 
 for this question.
Because I was always 
 doing things for myself,
not doing much 
 for others.
I had some humanitarian ideas 
 during those years
that weren't developed 
 because my time
was always busy 
 with my things.
So I took the decision 
 of working for others.
Not for myself.
In this period of my life, 
 I was with my oldest daughter,
which at the time 
 was 18 years old,
and we were having dinner
next to the salad buffet
and she asked me 
 what would happen to the salads
in the end of the night.
I said that's 
 going to the trash,
is exposed to the air, 
 won't be sold tomorrow...
For sure that's going to trash.
And she said that's a shame.
And it is.

Portuguese: 
e entregamos logo para quem precisa.
O quê que eu fiz no planeta Terra 
 durante 59 anos?
E não estava muito feliz 
 com os resultados deste levantamento.
Porque estava sempre a fazer coisas para mim.
Não tinha feito grande coisa 
 para os outros...
E tinha tido ao longo dos anos 
 algumas ideias humanitárias,
que não foram desenvolvidas,
porque o meu tempo estava sempre ocupado 
 com as minhas coisas.
E tomei a decisão fundamental 
 de trabalhar para os outros,
não para mim.
Neste contexto, 
 estava com a minha filha mais velha,
que tinha na altura 18 anos,
no contexto dum jantar,
ao lado do buffet de saladas,
ela perguntou-me o quê que acontecia à salada, 
 no fim da noite.
Isto vai para o lixo, está exposto ao ar, 
 não se vai vender amanhã,
de certeza que vai para o lixo.
E ela disse que era uma vergonha. 
 E é.

Portuguese: 
E eu expliquei-lhe que não era só 
 com a salada.
É em tudo o que está preparado,
não vendido 
 e que não vai ser vendido no próximo dia,
vai necessáriamente ao lixo, 
 por falta duma alternativa.
E quando eu disse a palavra 
 "alternativa"...
Boom! 
 Aquela luz.
E eu escrevi o esboço 
 do movimento Refood,
naquela mesma conversa.
E lancei 3 meses depois, 
 a ideia original.
Estamos a produzir 84 mil refeições 
 por mês.
Nós como cidadãos, 
 temos imenso poder.
Mas nós não utilizamos este poder.
Talvez nem saibamos que o temos.
Estamos à espera dos políticos, 
 ou do governo,
ou das empresas, 
 para resolver os problemas da sociedade.
E eles não são competentes 
 para fazer isto!
Não podem!
Mas os cidadãos têm imenso poder 
 para mudar o mundo.
Se simplesmente o fizerem!

English: 
And I explained that 
 isn't only the salads.
It's all the unsold food,
that won't be sold 
 in the next day,
is going for the trash
because there is no alternative.
When I said the word 
 "alternative"
BOOM 
 that light!
And I wrote the sketch 
 of the "Refood" movement
during that exactly conversation.
And 3 months later 
 I released the original idea.
We're producing 
 84000 meals every month.
As citizens 
 we have a huge power!
But we don't use this power! 
 Maybe we don't even know that we have it.
We're waiting for the politicians, 
 the government, companies...
To solve the problems 
 of our society.
And they are not competent to do it! 
 They can't.
But citizens have a huge power 
 to change the world,
just by doing it!

English: 
And "Refood" it's just 
 an example of that.

Portuguese: 
E a Refood 
 é só um exemplo disso.
Quando vão a uma loja, 
 as bananas estão todas em cachos perfeitos,
todas do mesmo tamanho, 
 têm todas exactamente a mesma curvatura.
E o mesmo diâmetro.
As bananas não crescem assim.
Para atingirem essa uniformidade,
todas as outras que não a atingem,
são descartadas.
Isto é o desperdício dum dia de Agosto, 
 numa plantação de bananas,
no Equador.
Bananas a serem desperdiçadas 
 na Costa Rica...
Quando eu visitei pela primeira vez 
 uma unidade de produção de cenouras,
em Inglaterra,
eu lembro-me de ver um grande 
 monte de cenouras, como este aqui,
cheio de cenouras.
E eu disse, 
 "Estas devem ser as vossas premium que vão para o supermercado".
" - Não. Estas são as desperdiçadas."
" - Porquê? Qual é o problema delas?
São melhores do que qualquer uma 
 que eu já tenha plantado!"
Ele apontou para a luz e disse 
 "Podes ver uma ligeira curvatura,
" e o supermercado não as aceita,
elas têm de estar perfeitamente direitas."
Estas como podem ver, 
 são perfeitamente direitas.
Mas são longas demais,

Portuguese: 
para caberem nas caixas.

English: 
We tried to contact the main 
 supermarket chains in Portugal.
None accepted an interview.
Look, look! 
 Jackpot, jackpot!
Take it! Lentils!
There are things in my opinion 
 that don't get expired.
Like dried stuff, 
 dried beans and all of that...
I recycled dried beans 
 and I don't understand why they're out of date.
But maybe that's me 
 who doesn't have knowledge about this.
But the fact is that 
 I cooked it and was great.
"GoodAfter" is a 
 supermarket of opportunities.
It was created with the idea 
 to fight food waste.
And not just food.
So we sell products that 
 come to us because a specific reason.
Because they're reaching 
 the preferred date of consumption,
or has already surpassed it;

English: 
or it's a deprecated line,
products that companies 
 don't want in the supermarkets anymore;
and we want to commercialize 
 all these products.
We usually say that we give 
 a new economic cycle
to those products 
 that wouldn't be sold.
FOUNDER OF "GOODAFTER"
Doesn't' make sense 
 to through away all of these products.
So basically GoodAfter.com 
 deal with inefficiencies.
And the world 
 is full of inefficiencies.
We receive products 
 with a label dismantled,
and the company 
 don't want it like this in the supermarkets...
Or christmas products that will expire 
 before the next christmas...
The preferential consumption date 
 doesn't reach the next christmas.
So those are problems 
 for the manufacturer.
We are a solution for manufacturers 
 and distributors.
In order to sell these products 
 whose destiny would be the trash.

English: 
One of our goals is 
 to demystify the topic of consumption dates.
There are 2 type of consumption dates 
 well differentiated.
The expiration date (consume before...) 
 applied in fresh products,
which we usually see in the fridges 
 of conventional supermarkets.
So it's a mandatory consume.
I mean, that product 
 must be consumed until that date,
and just can be sold until that date.
It's not possible to sell 
 after the indicated date.
That's related with food safety.
If we sell it 
 we put the consumer's health in risk.
And then there are a 
 huge universe of products
which is applied the preferential limit date of consumption. 
 In english "best before".
As the name says, 
 It's a preference.
Not mandatory.

English: 
So the manufacturer says 
 to preferentially consume till that date.
But it doesn't mean 
 that the product isn't good after it.
That's why we are called 
 "GoodAfter".
The biggest difference between 
 these two expiration dates
is that in the preferential date 
 doesn't put the consumer's health in risk.
That date is referred to the 
 minimum product durability.
So it's about the 
 organoleptic characteristics of the product.
Like texture, color... 
 Whatever.
But never related with food safety.
That's why the law makes a 
 distinction between both consumption dates.
But there are a big ignorance 
 about this difference.
And we cannot put everything into the same bag 
 because this has nothing to do.
And we just sell these kind of products. 
 "Best before".
We don't sell fresh products.
Because we can't 
 and it's not our core.
We just sell products with preferential dates of consume 
 or even without an associated date.

English: 
We have lots of discontinued products.
Like beauty and hygiene products, 
 detergents...
Arrive here 
 because they have obsolete packages.
This package doesn't have an associated 
 preferential date limits of consume.
The majority of hygienic products 
 have a limit date of consumption after opening the package.
In this case, 
 12 months.
And this package is currently discontinued.
Now the brand changed its image.
The slogan doesn't say: 
 "Shampoo for dry and sensitive skin".
Now it says: 
 "My first shampoo".
So the package changed,
and the company doesn't want the old package 
 in the same line as the old one...
So this is a problem.
And we the sell it because 
 it's a shampoo that washes anyway.
For example, cereals. 
 Like rice, dried cereals...
Stored under the appropriate 
 temperature and humidity conditions,

English: 
It can last 30 years.
and yet the manufacturers put a 
 preferential consumption limit of 12 or 24 months.
Because they are obligated by law.
But sometimes the law is a bit ungrateful.
Here we have always 
 which is the preferential limit date of consumption.
We are obligated by law 
 to specify it.
And the explanation 
 of why we are selling it cheaper.
This is very important 
 to inform the consumer.
We have 8 categories.
Because our goal 
 is to have the same offer
as in the usual supermarkets.

Portuguese: 
E que melhor maneira 
 de preparar para o "Dia da Terra",
que analisarmos um estilo de vida 
 sem desperdício!
Isso significa, 
 não gerar lixo algum.
E se pensa que é impossível, 
 que tal lhe mostrarmos uma mulher,

Portuguese: 
que lhe provará o contrário?
Reportagem de Nikki Battiste 
 para a ABC.
Repare no seu caixote do lixo.
As chances são grandes 
 de pertencer aos 215 milhões
de lixo produzidos na América 
 por ano.
Mas não esta jovem mulher.
- Este é todo o seu lixo. 
 - Sim.
Acreditem ou não, 
 Lauren Singer com 25 anos,
vive completamente sem produzir lixo.
- Há quase 4 anos.
4 anos nesta pequena jarra?
Sim.
O que significa "lixo"?
Para mim, lixo é qualquer coisa 
 que acabe num aterro,
ou num caixote à beira da estrada,
qualquer coisa que 
 não possamos reutilizar,
ou usar como composto, 
 ou reciclar...
Agora, viver sem gerar desperdício.
É uma ideia muito rebuscada, 
 certo?
Então, 
 permitam-me defini-la.
Para mim, viver sem desperdício 
 significa que não produzo lixo algum.
Então, não mandar nada para aterros, 
 nem para o caixote do lixo,
nem deitar nada para o chão 
 e seguir caminho.
Nenhum lixo.

Portuguese: 
Isto é um grande conceito.
E isto tudo começou, 
 quando eu era estudante de Estudos Ambientais.
Havia uma rapariga na minha turma,
e em todas as aulas 
 ela trazia um saco de plástico enorme,
com um pacote de plástico 
 com comida,
talheres de plástico,
uma garrafa de água 
 de plástico
e um pactote de plástico 
 com batatas fritas.
E ela comia tudo aquilo 
 e a seguir às aulas, deitava para o lixo.
Isto era muito frustante, 
 porque nós estavamos em Estudos Ambientais!
A tentar fazer do mundo um lugar melhor.
E depois lá estava ela a 
 deitar tudo aquilo no lixo.
Um dia, 
 depois das aulas,
estava particularmente chateada, 
 por vê-la deitar aquilo fora,
Eu fui para casa 
 fazer o jantar.
E eu abri o meu frigorífico
e reparei em algo que nunca 
 tinha reparado antes.
Cada coisa que eu tinha no frigorífico, 
 de uma maneira ou outra,
embalada em plástico.
Foi então que tomei a decisão 
 de deixar de produzir desperdício.

Portuguese: 
A única maneira que eu tinha de fazer isso, 
 era aprender a produzir os meus próprios produtos.
- Escovas de dentes de plástico? 
 - Eu uso escovas de bambu compostáveis.
- Esponjas? 
 - Uso uma escova compostável.
- Guardanapos de papel? 
 - Uso guardanapos de pano.
- Talheres de plástico? 
 - Uso utensílios de mandeira ou aço.
- Bolas de algodão? 
 - Uso reutilizáveis.
- Toalhitas? 
 - Bolas absorventes que faço eu mesma.
- E o shampoo? 
 - Sabão a granel.
- Makeup? 
 - Orgânica e vegan em recipientes recicláveis.
- Produtos femininos? 
 - Copo menstrual.
- Embalagens para presentes? 
 - Para quê?
Ok, então vais-me ensinar a fazer 
 pasta de dentes?
- Sim! 
 - O que tenho de fazer?
Então, vamos meter duas colheres 
 de óleo de coco orgânico,
Depois uma de bicarbonato de sodio,
E depois cerca de 20 gotas 
 de óleo de menta.
Então isto é como fazes 
 a tua pasta de dentes.
Como estão os teus dentes? 
 Parecem muito bem!
O quê que o teu dentista diz sobre isto?
Eles não me têm tido muito por lá!
Então é só retirar com uma colher 
 e meter na escova.

Portuguese: 
Sim, sinto os meus dentes lavados, 
 por isso...
Obrigado!
Tens algum caixote do lixo, 
 aqui em casa?
Não, não tenho nenhum caixote 
 aqui em casa.
- Porque não tens lixo. 
 - Exactamente.
Estás mesmo a convencer-me 
 a reduzir o meu desperdício.
Portanto, que dicas me podes dar, 
 ou a alguém que queira fazer o mesmo?
Eu sugiro que olhes para o teu caixote 
 e identifiques o que é o teu lixo.
Até que não fizeres isso, 
 não vais saber onde reduzir, certo?
O segundo passo é usar sacos reutilizáveis.
Em vez de sacos de plástico 
 ou de papel.
Pequenos passos de cada vez.
E o último passo será mesmo 
 fazeres os teus próprios produtos.
Aprende a fazer 
 pasta de dentes,
ou desodorizante...
É realmente bastante divertido.
Qual é o teu último objectivo?
Antes de eu levar este estilo de vida, 
 eu perguntava-me porquê que existia todo este lixo.
Temos de encontrar soluções, 
 antes que fique fora de controlo.
Eu nunca disse a ninguém: 
 "Devias viver assim, tens de o fazer."
Eu apenas vivo o meu estilo de vida 
 e vejo o que acontece.

English: 
Although I reuse many things,
what surprises people the most 
 when they come to my house,

Portuguese: 
Este é o meu composto,
das últimas duas semanas.
Em vez que deitar todos estes 
 restos de comida ao lixo,
algo que eu costumava fazer. 
 E agora mantenho-o no congelador,
e todos os sábados eu levo até ao 
 mercado dos agricultores,
onde é comido por minhocas, 
 que fazem o composto com os igredientes para nutrir o solo.
Há um mito comum, 
 em que se acredita que viver de forma sustentável,
implica gastar imenso dinheiro.
Ou ter coisas inacessíveis ou 
 pouco convenientes.
E isso não é de todo verdade.
Quando fazes os teus próprios produtos, 
 estás a poupar tanto dinheiro.
Porque não estás a pagar pela mão de obra, 
 nem tudo o resto.
Então este estilo de vida faz realmente sentido, 
 especialmente se vives com pouco dinheiro.

English: 
Is the fact that my shower curtain,
is a normal curtain like everybody else,
and at one point I had the need 
 to buy rings to hold the curtain.
And I thought: 
 "I'm going to buy plastic rings...
"I have to work one hour of my life 
 to buy plastic rings
"made by a material that I think 
 it shouldn't exist anymore in our planet...
I don't want it! 
 There must be a better solution."
So I cut the hoops 
 of the bottles I have at home.
and I bent it with a little strength
and I use the hoops 
 to hold the shower curtain.
and although I reuse several things,
the thing that surprises people the most
is this!
It's a very simple thing.
If I wouldn't tell you, 
 you wouldn't realize.
You won't understand that 
 there is a peace of my life in there
of daily life, you know?
Which I reduced.
Something that I didn't buy. 
 I reused something that would go to trash.

English: 
And everything in my daily life 
 works like this.
It's always... 
 It's always what I call the 5 R's.
Which are Rethink,
Reduce and 
 Reuse, Reuse and Reuse.
There is so much clothes being produced...
So many things being produced...
Furniture, household appliances... 
 Even that you can recycle.
If we are aware, 
 there are people changing home,
that don't want old stuff anymore, 
 and they would sell it to scrap.
And we can subsist of recycling 
 this kind of stuff.
Recycling food and other stuff.
But obviously you won't have the lifestyle 
 that many people can't leave.
Which is to have money in the pocket 
 and go to a store and consume what they want.
Why not to have a bike-washing machine?
Instead of an electric washing machine...
You can do it with 
 an old washing machine

English: 
and a bike. 
 On YouTube you have several videos explaining.
And you wash your clothes pedaling.
So you are saving electricity,
you exercise your body...
It's much healthier.
There are little things 
 that everyone can do in their daily lives.
And they can still 
 have a job or study.
But implementing these things in daily life.
Everything that crosses your mind, 
 no matter how stupid it looks...
Well, wouldn't look stupid to you 
 otherwise wouldn't even cross your mind...
If crosses your mind 
 that's because it makes sense for you...
So do it!
Do it! 
 Be aware that probably you'll fail.
And... That's it. 
 You already know that probably you'll fail...
You already know that problems will emerge...
And you already know that 
 you need to solve them.
So let's go.
Basically that's it.
Now... What can I suggest?

English: 
If you need to eat bread 
 every breakfast
instead of buying bread 
 start to do it by yourself.
It's about to start producing 
 our own things.
Like if there is a lettuce that 
 you like to put in your salads
plant your lettuces in pots 
 even if it's indoors.
That's a way to start to free yourself 
 from the dependence of the usual consumptions
step by step.
And not like consumerism... 
 You go to a supermarket,
and this appears miraculously solved.
There are ways 
 to make everything.
You can't even imagine. 
 There are ways to make everything.
For example, 
 there are people producing biodiesel.
There are people producing 
 their own soap, toothpaste...
And this is what 
 interests me the most.
It's about to find out 
 how you can be self-sufficient in your life.

English: 
Doing what you enjoy...
By yourself. 
 Doing your own things.
This washing machine 
 was of one of my neighbors.
One day he bought a new one 
 and was throwing this one away.
So I asked him 
 if I could take it.
And he said: 
 "Yes, it's trash. Take it."
And my idea is to make 
 a manual washing machine.
I'll put a heavy thing in here.
Before the wash 
 I raise it to a meter or two in height.
And then it goes down slowly, 
 driving a cogwheel.
It comes down slowly because the sprocket 
 won't let it down faster.
And it comes down slowly 
 creating the necessary motion
to keep the washing machine 
 working for 2 or 3 hours
without the use of electricity, 
 fuel or anything else.

English: 
"Maria Granel" is the first grocery store 100% in bulk 
 in Portugal.
And the main goal of our concept 
 is based on sustainability.
Promoting a more responsible 
 and sustainable consume.
As you can see 
 we have no packages.
We encourage people 
 to bring their own bottles or bags,
and to just take 
 the quantities they need
according what makes 
 sense for them to consume.
The bases of our mission 
 is to promote a more sustainable consume.
CO-FOUNDER OF "MARIA GRANEL"
We have an optimist vision 
 and we believe that we can contribute
for the diminution of these numbers
but according with the last statistics 
 the numbers say that

English: 
each Portuguese is producing 
 over 400Kg of trash every year.
50% of that trash 
 ends up in landfields.
It means that 
 is waste that is not absorbed.
So it has an incredible 
 impact in the ecosystem.
Incredible in a negative way.
And we think that buying in bulk, 
 has a contribution to reduce that waste.
In all age groups, 
 there is a progressive awareness for sustainability.
And we are very proud 
 to know that we are part of the change,
contributing for it.
There are more and more people coming 
 to our store with a planned purchase,
organized, structured, 
 bringing their own bags and packages...
And it's good to know 
 that we are part of the solution.
The solution is not to put in jail 
 the president of EDP, Coca-Cola, etc.

English: 
Because they are just doing 
 what we allow them to do!
And 90% of the population 
 in their position would do the same they do!
So, what we need to change... 
 Let's be clear and straight to the point,
What we need to change 
 is ourselves!
And there is always 
 the that talk of the victim:
"Ah, I'm just one small citizen 
 I can't do anything."
Yes I can! I can refuse 
 to put money in the multinationals pockets.
The pockets of people that are responsible 
 for the greatest humanity problems.
So yes, I can do something.
And let me just tell you that 
 the solution is known for a long time.
The solution is 
 to reduce, to reuse...
And when necessary 
 without any other solution, recycle.
Something that people 
 always ask is:
"What if everybody was Freegan?"
"How would be the World?"

English: 
Would be beautiful!
I lived 5 years in India.
And there they have a 
 very interesting concept...
The teachers don't charge any money.
Nowadays they do. 
 But still in some villages,
because in India 
 they are very traditional,
they still live like 
 in the old days.
So in their philosophy 
 a teacher shouldn't charge any money.
They should never charge for teaching.
But the students shouldn't attend 
 without giving something in change.
So in those villages 
 a professor is teaching at school,
but a student's father 
 that is producing rice,
goes there and offers him 
 a package of rice every month.
Another has apples 
 so he takes apples to him.

English: 
So the teacher can coexist 
 without the coin.
Actually, we never 
 needed the coin.
If people have a piece 
 of land to cultivate,
what they produce in excess 
 they can exchange.
So, it would be perfect.
If everyone had trees enough, 
 their own gardens...
And a job that they like, 
 in order to help others...
And not to exploit others.
All this consumerism 
 doesn't drive anyone to happiness.
Just drives you to 
 depressions, frustrations...
And people need to understand 
 that we aren't so depending of money.
And that we can sustain ourselves 
 in our own way.
For me "necessity" 
 means water, food...
A shelter...
Freedom...

English: 
I think I don't need 
 much more than this.
I don't need of many 
 things to live.
But that's because I abdicated 
 of things that I didn't want,
that I didn't need 
 in my life.
These shoes 
 I found them in the trash.
My clothes I already don't know 
 where I found them.
I'd like to see people 
 become more self-sustainable.
Searching for their happiness, 
 without a boss telling them what to do.
Otherwise I'll reach 
 60 years old,
thinking about what 
 I did all my life
and it was to work 
 all the time.
What would I like to have done?
Maybe wouldn't working 
 in that company.
Maybe it was something 
 that I didn't even have time to think about,
because I was too worried 
 in making money.
Because the system makes you 
 to think like that!
But is not necessary... 
 Is not necessary...
And there are ways 
 to avoid it.
And... That's all.

English: 
We don't need to go back 
 to the Stone Age.
What we need 
 is to use imagination,
to think for ourselves...
And to use the tools around us.
The Time Bank.
It's a system of solidarity exchanges.
Exchanging time for time.
Well... We usually say that 
 the Time Bank
is a bank as any other
having balances, account movements, 
 agencies, transactions...
But quickly we say that it has nothing 
 to do with ordinary banks.
COORDINATOR OF TIME BANKS 
 IN PORTUGAL
In this bank there is no money 
 or bank interests rate.
Circulates only the time 
 of the available people
with interest in this initiative.
Basically, 
 it works like this:
In Portugal we have 
29 Time Bank agencies...
From North to South 
 including the Islands.

English: 
And those who want to enroll 
 in the time bank
go to a 
 Time Bank agency
where they become available 
 to do services they like to do.
For others or 
 with others.
In change they will 
 ask any other services
of their interest.
So, when someone 
 needs a service
contacts the Time Bank agency
to find someone 
 to do the requested service.
Imagine that I need 
 someone to help me
to change the vases 
 of my house.
I ask in the agency 
 someone able to do this for me
and in the end of the service
we count the time spent.
Imagine that it 
 would be 2 hours...
I pass a check of time 
 to the person that helped me.
That person will deposit it 
 in the agency
and can use those 2 hours 
 to ask any other service.

English: 
From any other member.
So it's not 
 a direct exchange.
There is a particular 
 thing here...
Which is, 
 every hour has the same value
regardless of the service.
Doesn't matter if it's 
 a college professor
that is helping someone 
 to prepare for an exam.
Or a girl that 
 is teaching someone
how to drive a bike. 
 Or just doing company.
It doesn't matter. 
 It's indifferent.
The services value depends 
 only on their duration.
In the Time Bank everyone 
 has to give and receive time.
That's the difference from 
 the traditional volunteering.
Here everyone is invited to alternate roles 
 between agent and beneficiary.
This puts everyone in a 
 position of radical equality.
Even for people in 
 vulnerable situations,

English: 
who socially have their 
 time greatly devalued.
They find here a place 
 where they are useful
and their time is valuable.
In the Time Bank 
 we exchange services by time.
So you can exchange anything.
The requirement is that everyone 
 should do services they like to do.
So the question that 
 we invite people to make is:
What do I like to do 
 with others and for others?
There isn't that idea of 
 making sacrifices for others.
The idea here is to expand 
 their own well-being.
And another peculiarity here 
 is that accumulation makes no sense.
So people can have a credit 
 until 20 hours.
From there... 
 When someone is requesting and requesting...
Without to offer any services

English: 
it's our duty to find anything 
 for that person to do.
Not dealing with money... 
 It seems very revolutionary for me.
Because we live in a society 
 where almost everything becomes materialized.
From recreation to health care...
And the Time Bank 
 comes to dispense money
which organizes so many social relations
putting people in such asymmetric positions.
So, well, we share the ideal 
 that people value for what they are
and not for what they own.
Money can be used 
 in a positive way.
But it's not the goal of life.
Definitely!
People are working in order to die. 
 Isn't it?
To have money.
But in the end of their lives 
 they spend all money in pills.
Because they had such a rampant life, 
 they were so exploited...
That they lost their health.

English: 
So they spend the money they saved... 
 In pills.
So they are living to die, isn't it?
Quality of life is to have time.
Not to have things.
Having time for friends, 
 family, children...
Time to read!
Time to travel, to help others, 
 to do charity...
That's quality of life.
So if all the world 
 was freegan would be perfect.
Would be perfect...
And it's not an utopia. 
 Not at all.
This is possible. 
 For sure.
We have the perception 
 that many things are inverted, right?
There are many things inverted...
Time is the most precious thing we have.
Time is our life, 
 isn't it?

English: 
And it's so underrated compared to money.
Time is a democratic good.
Everyone has time. 
 Our time. 24 hours a day.
Money is something 
 that enslaves people in some way.
Around the way people organize their lives...
The idea of producing to consume...
And we are creating a lifestyle 
 that is so unsustainable.
Running away from what is essential 
 which is our life.
Our time.
The time bank allows to many people 
 the access to several services
that many of them wouldn't 
 have the opportunity to acquire
if they had to appeal the market.
This is very important.
When the crisis was more intense 
 the Time Bank was very important
to some people that 
 could count with support

Portuguese: 
Nós podemos mudar o mundo todos os dias. 
 É uma questão de decisão.
E não tens de fundar uma coisa 
 como a Refood.
Só ajudando as pessoas à nossa volta,
muda o mundo. 
 E todos têm este poder.
- Qual é que é o vosso objectivo 
 a longo prazo?
É não precisar de fazer mais isto.

English: 
for example, 
 support for their children's studies...
I don't know! 
 Another example, have a massage
which is a completely impractical thing.
Or learn a new language, 
 learn how to paint...
It's an initiative that includes 
 very different people.
Different ages, 
 different backgrounds...
But people that believe 
 in this proposal
which is to transform the way we live.
We can change the world everyday! 
 It's a matter of decision.
And you don't need to create 
 something as the "Refood".
Only helping people around you 
 changes the world.
And everyone has this power.
- What is your long-term goal?
It's do not having to do this anymore.

English: 
Creating a society where 
 there is no food waste
nor hunger.
Then we go to the beach.
Meanwhile, we have work to do.

Portuguese: 
Criar uma sociedade onde 
 não há desperdício alimentar,
nem fome.
E depois nós vamos à praia.
Entretanto temos trabalho a fazer.
Eu vivo um estilo de vida 
 sem desperdício,
porque para mim, é a melhor forma 
 de viver segundo os meus ideais.
E... 
 Qual é o sentido disso, não é?
Sou só uma pessoa, 
 que diferença posso eu fazer?
É simples.
Eu quero ser recordada pelas coisas 
 que eu fiz enquanto vivi neste planeta.
E não pelo lixo 
 que eu deixei para trás.
Obrigado.
Até que os soldados da paz, 
 se tornem tão corajosos quanto os soldados de guerra,
pouco mudará.
E cada pessoa nesta sala, 
 desde tu, tu e tu,
É um soldado da paz.
E eu imploro-vos, 
 por favor, por favor,
Vivam o presente 
 e sejam a mudança que querem ver no mundo.

Portuguese: 
Tenham coragem suficiente, para transformarem 
 aquilo em que acreditam, em ações.
E será isso que mudará o mundo.
Não mudará a ficarem sentados 
 em bares a falar sobre isso.
Mudará com ações. 
 Transformem o que acreditam, em ações.
E isso mudará o mundo. 
 Mudará as pessoas à vossa volta.
E mudarão o mundo.
Por isso eu imploro-vos, 
 por favor, por favor,
ajudem a mudar o mundo. 
 O mundo precisa de mudança.
Por isso eu deixo-vos a desejar-vos 
 coragem e força,
para que vão lá fora 
 e tornem este mundo um lugar melhor.
Muito obrigado.
"QUANDO REDUZES O QUE PRECISAS NA VIDA PARA O MÍNIMO 
 É QUANDO ATINGES A VERDADEIRA FELICIDADE."

Portuguese: 
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English: 
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English: 
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