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Dumpster Ride #4

12.4.09

We're leading another Dumpster Bike Ride!

NOTE: The event details have been changed. We will be starting at the Pasadena Mennonite Church where they will have a FREE showing the film, Dive!

After the screening we will then bike to supermarket dumpsters and rescue discarded good quality food. The ride will be about 10 miles and will end at the start.

Pasadena Mennonite Church
1041 N Altadena Dr
Pasadena, CA

7:00 Film screening
9:30 Meet in the Parking Lot for the Dumpster Ride

We will start riding at 10:00 PM.
Don't be late! We'll be leaving on schedule. We'll leave a few route slips behind just in case.

Bring a bike and a backpack, panniers or trailer. The ride will be around 10 miles.

Be prepared to take quantities of food home with you to eat or give away.

Please consider walking, biking, taking public transit (http://metro.net...) or ride sharing.



Please consider walking, biking, taking public transit (http://metro.net) or ride sharing.



Volunteers needed for this ride. If you'd like to help out, let me know (Eric (at) einem (dot) us ).


Discuss the dumpster ride






Why are products thrown out?

(from http://freegan.org.uk/pages/faq.php)



(i) The packaging itself has been damaged or soiled.



(ii) The food is part of a case which has had one or two items damaged or soiled (e.g. one broken drink tin that spills on the other tins in the carton).



(iii) The food is nearing (or has passed) the sell-by or use-by dates. (Often products are thrown out when the sell-by date expires, which means that perfectly edible/usable products that have not reached their use-by date are being wasted. It is also worth noting, that the sell-by and use-by dates often do NOT reflect the natural life-cycle of the product. A perfect example is something like honey, which can last for years past what supermarkets deem its best-before date).



(iv) The food did not sell quickly enough before a fresh shipment arrived.



(v) Sometimes there is 'seasonal-specific' branding on various products (e.g Christmas wrapping; Easter eggs etc.). Once the festival/season 'expires' product ranges are often thrown out because shoppers lose interest in these items. Packaging plays an enormous part in why and what people buy.



(vi) On a similar note, if a product line is withdrawn, or the branding is evolved to incorporate a new 'image', or new marketing strategy, this may be anothe reason that perfectly usable items are thrown out. New or experimental product lines that fail to sell are discarded in this way.



(vii) Some products have competitions on the packaging. Likewise, if the competition ends before the product is sold, this may be a factor in why products are thrown out (and often in large amounts).



(viii) Occasionally there are product recalls, usually as a result of health and safety concerns. Usually such items (especially when they are serious) are well publicised. So, freegans, as with anyone else who bought the product in the first place, will probably have been made aware.



(ix) Especially relating to non-food items, if someone returns something that they buy, often this means that the shop chucks out the item, even if there is no fault with it.



(x) Supermarkets/retailers way up their decision-making, not on 'best use of resources' but using economic criteria. They often believe that the amount of money it would cost them to recycle is not economical. This is where waste is an intrinsic component of capitalism/consumerism. It becomes more profitable to destroy resources. Freegans see that we need to have more criteria (and more rational/ethical ones at that) factored into the decision-making process. Cost to such things as the environment in which we have to live should clearly take precedence in any choice that individuals/organisations make in such things as discarding resources.



(xi) The main reason items are thrown out is due to selfishness, greed and short-term thinking, which leads to the irrational nature underlying many, if not all, of the reasons cited above.



More information on dumpster diving and freegansim at http://freegan.org.uk/pages/faq.php



For more info conact Eric, eric (at) einem (dot) us

  










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