Bia³ystok. Police issued a ticket to a woman who took food from Biedronka’s trash.

PhD student at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Bialystok, which is freegan (freeganizm it is an anti-consumer lifestyle, which consists of looking for food suitable for consumption in the garbage cans, eg. for the sake of the environment) is gone in the car to the parking lot in the back room Ladybugs at ul. Transportation inside Bialystok. There he collected fruit and vegetables from waste containers, among others.

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Bialystok. Biedronka’s bodyguard arrested the woman and called the police. A fine for taking food from the garbage can

As reported by “Morning courier“, the woman brought the products with her and, as she got into the car, a man, probably a security guard, approached her and asked her to get out of the vehicle. The woman explained the newspaperthat the man told her to remove the box food obtained from the store containers and go with it to the back room. Then he used it against her gas pepper and called the police, reporting the theft.

As we read, the woman was fined with a fine of 200 PLN and losses shop it was estimated at PLN 108.99. “Kurier Poranny” reports that the food came from ReFood containers that were in the shop. ReFood is a company that deals with the transformation of food waste, including green electricity and BIO fertilizers.

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Bialystok. A woman fined for taking food from the garbage can. It’s right?

Was the woman rightly fined for taking food out of store containers? – The waste in question was still formally owned by the entrepreneur who intended to transfer it to another entrepreneur for disposal. According to the civil code, property ceases to be a thing that is thrown away with the intention of getting rid of it. If circumstances do not indicate it, misappropriation may have occurred – comments Michał Herde of the Consumer Federation in response to our question. As he adds, however, he cannot say if the punishment is in this particular one accident it was right.