Northern Ireland’s first sharing fridge has opened in Cloughmills. It’s the fridge that could help feed a community.
The sharing fridge is open to all with businesses and residents able to share extra food or help themselves to save food. The idea behind the community fridge is simple—take what you need and leave what you don’t need.
Patrick Frew, chair of Cloughmills Community Action Team, said it was not a food bank. “It’s for everyone,” he said. “If you’re going away on holidays, you can bring along some of your food before you go and leave it with us, rather than throw into the bin or landfill, and we give it out to other people. You can come and see what we have and take it home with you. If you’ve got any spare food at home, we can take it off your hands. Then see what we have that you can take home with you.”
The people behind the fridge estimate that each family in the village could be throwing away up to ￡470 of food every year—that’s ￡282,000 a year for the whole area.
Although this is the first in Northern Ireland, there are solidarity or honesty fridges in Spain, Germany and other parts of the UK. When a community fridge was set up in Swadlincote in England, it collected and gave out more than 2,0000 kg of food in the first six months.
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