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While some tweekers gravitate towards dumpstering (and excel at it), I hardly think it's fair (or smart) to say that a dumpster diver equals a tweeker. How little is your mind 818?
dumpsters are great, so are fruit trees, so are alleys,
I furnished my entire appt in florida this way, my spot in pomona was mostly furnished by crap left behind by old room mates.
In florida I used to get all my produce fresh from trees in the area, people were more generous with their tree leavings there, putting bags of fruit out on the sidewalk for whoever wanted it; here, people can be downright vicious about protecting "their" fruit, that they then let rot and throw out.
If it hangs over the street it's available for everyone.
While some tweekers gravitate towards dumpstering (and excel at it), I hardly think it's fair (or smart) to say that a dumpster diver equals a tweeker. How little is your mind 818?
IF YOU WANT FREE FOOD CONTACT,
the store managers of supermarkets and set up a time you can pick up savagable food. My neighbor does this and gets a bounty full twice a week. He usually fills his van up with expired or damaged product. He then distributes it to the homeless. If your professional about it the big boys will contribute, he often gets excess from Ralphs, Vons, Trader Joes.
bread that is baked fresh at the bakery (whether it be vons, ralphs, whole foods, whatever) and isnt sold at the end of the day cant be put back on the shelf to be sold the next day, so its thrown out. thats perfectly good food going to waste.
while this book is sort of a pipe dream joke, its still a good read and puts some things into perspective if you can get over the retarded hyperbole the author sometimes tends to use.
Half the food in the US goes to waste.
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Supply-Chain/Half-of-US-food-goes-to-waste
You got to see that there's a better way right 818? No one is advocating to make a career out of dumpster diving. They are showing how wasteful we are with our resources.
I agree that this shit needs to be sorted out from a higher level. I HATE when places throw out stuff that could be donated.
The most disturbing job I've ever had was working at a warehouse that dealt with appliance returns for Oster and Kitchen Aid and a bunch of big companies like that.
One of the things they made me do (for a day, and then I quit) was destroy a bunch of returned merchandise: cutting the chords off of blenders, electric blankets, toasters, etc. Regardless of why the product was returned: They did not test the products to see if they were defective, they just destroyed them and threw them out because they could make an insurance claim.
So I was all "wait a minute, so instead of donating potentially perfectly good merchandise we destroy it so the company makes back the money???" and so they kept watching me to make sure I was cutting the chords off so that nobody could dumpster dive and make use of the stuff (since I was clearly distressed about it). Anyway, whenever nobody was watching, I'd throw a pile of stuff into the trash that I hadn't ruined. Ugh. So much waste.
DUMPSTER DIVING IS -BY DEFAULT- A FIRST WORLD ACTIVITY.
It requires an excess being discarded by others (aka waste). You think there's 40 lbs of "expired" fruit in a third world dumpster?
ALSO, its not strictly for people without jobs. I think its strictly for people that dont want to see decent food being discarded. Brad and I saved $1000+ on the tour but later on we spent it on ice cream.
And then we found a dumpster full of ice cream (srsly), and then all was right with the world.
I worked at a store and we sold posters there. every time we got new posters, we'd have to destroy the old ones. They were rolled up and we'd just slice them with a razor.
One time after we did this I just got to work and I see a couple unloading tons of posters we had just destroyed out of the dumpster. They were scavenging that shit. I laughed and laughed, they were going to be really disappointed when they got those posters home hahahahahaaaaaa idiots.
H'mm, rendering perfectly good merchandise worthless/useless before throwing it out, eh?
Reminds me of those Civil War stories where the Federal Troops would come upon Confederate rail-lines and dismantle vital sections leading to supply points.
Then to add insult to injury they would heat the rails up and bend them into "U's" with trees, telegraph lines, etc.,
Even if they didn't want homeless people digging through the trash and using their products, they could at least test the products and repair or recycle them. The amount of energy used to create that crap mixed with the amount of WASTE created... gives me the heebie jeebies.
but then they have to pay people to test them, and profits are key, so just throw them out, since it only costs a few dollars to make them, and the mark up is 400% of that. in the end, i like money.
fuck dispelling/commercializing the stigma behind dumpster diving, urban foraging and freeganism. Shock value is half the fun/motivation.
A suburban sleepwalking housewife seeing a young healthy girl digging around for, and later consuming food from a dumpster is a shocking event.
Shes going to go home and think about what she saw. She may bring it up as conversation at the dinner table that evening, replacing the time slot usually reserved for consumer-culture zombie chitchat.
This one time on Borfo's wyld ryde me and this awesome kid - who i havent seen since :( found a whole box of pastries. they were oh so stale and delicious.
those belong to the studios, not the movie theatres. your best bet is to try to get them from rental places that arent blockbuster.
confederate troops had literally nothing when they were fighting and usually stole extra clothes and shoes and whatever else they could find from dead union soldiers. thats what you meant to post, right?
There are 3 Trader Joe's in Pasadena. Only one of them has the dumpster locked up. They throw away piles of perfectly good food every day. Such a waste. I have a job and money for food - but I hate to see good resources go to waste.
Things I've found in TJ's dumpster that were perfectly edible:: Bananas, tangerines, potatoes, sweet potates, onions, lemons, limes, avodacos, almonds, Good Earth Tea, Crannies, Rice Milk, Cereal, day-old bread, pies, tea cake, tortilla chips, eggs, cheese
@Candy Cane, who was that kid? I thought you knew him, for some reason. That was pretty rad....he went straight for the dumpster and came up with gold.
Not quite the gold that B-Rad came up with in New York, though, ay Roadblock?
To cereally serious, though, I've never dumpstered for food, but I want to start. It's really interesting how different people's perspectives are on the topic - I think people existing on wasted resources is fucking inspiring.
My grand parents used to go to the market every day and get tons of food headed for the dumpster ... they made friends with a dude at the store and he was all to happy to give stuff to them to prevent it from going to waste, dented cans, stuff missing labels, and tons of stuff that was perfectly excellent but is thrown out because they have a policy of not trying to recover a few clean jars from a case where one is busted.
My mom used to cook up "surprise supper" where shed make a stew, by just opening lots mystery cans and adding it to the mix if it was appropriate.
There is a Hearty Fallen Fruit Movement here in LA.
The quote in the video above, "1% of manufactured goods is still in use 6 months later." I'm having trouble finding any resource on their site that confirms this statistic. I don't doubt that it's low, I'm just doubting it's this shocking of a figure.
BTW, if anyone doesn't know yet, freecycle.org is a good site to get goods and give goods that are no longer needed.
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Are there any of you that dumpster dive for food or consider yourself a freegan?
bread that is baked fresh at the bakery (whether it be vons, ralphs, whole foods, whatever) and isnt sold at the end of the day cant be put back on the shelf to be sold the next day, so its thrown out. thats perfectly good food going to waste.
but then they have to pay people to test them, and profits are key, so just throw them out, since it only costs a few dollars to make them, and the mark up is 400% of that. in the end, i like money.