One Man's Trash....
...Is another man's bread.
Ever heard of Freegans?
It could sure save you a lot of money on groceries!
Ever heard of Freegans?
It could sure save you a lot of money on groceries!
posted by Crystal Paine at 10:44 PM
10 Comments:
thanks for sharing that link with us! =)
~Samantha
That's really neat!
Our Bible club at college used to dumpster-dive/"trash intercept" at the end of the spring semester. We'd have donation stations at all the big dorms on campus, collecting clothes & housewares for donation to local charities. It's amazing what gets thrown away- I'm talking TV sets, video gane consoles, almost-new textbooks, furniture, plus clothes and unopened food.
Now it's a big thing here to dumpster-dive not only at the dorms but at all the major student apartment complexes at the ends of May & June, when student leases are up. Families and organizations with trucks stake out Dumpster "territories" and a lot of people do it for income; they take the saleable findings to the flea market or swap meet. I like the idea of people recycling this way; though I'm not sure about actually climbing into a stinky Dumpster :)
I think they should be call "NUTgans"! hee hee.
I can see and agree with things that aren't food related though. :-)
Whoops oh! I read a story about this a while back, and the only thing featured was food diving....so I didn't read the link you put up.....duh. So with that, again, I can agree with the non-food items.....I just don't know how hungry I would have to be to eat stuff out of the trash.....yeeeha.
i have heard of them i thik they are trying to call attentin to the waste in our society. i agree there is too much waste but i could never eat out of the trash.
My husband used to go visit dumpsters for a hobby. Strange hobby, but there was so much stuff there it was amazing.
One time we were sent byt he grocery store to the dumpster to get boxes for moving. We went and found (it was not a stinky dumpster) boxes sealed and taped shut, full of new pectin and other things. It really wasn't gross...even though it sounds awful!!! Considering we were very, very poor, we did get upset at this horrible waste when there are people in our country that suffer from not enough food. I know we have to think about lawsuits and all, but I remember this one documentery we saw on how a man got resturaunts and fast food places to donate the food to homeless shelters instead of throwing it away.
The tip about checking out the free stuff listing on local Craigslist sites is a good one. www.craigslist.org
while I have intercepted some good finds (furniture, etc in college) from being tossed, I can say without a doubt that I would NEVER eat unpackaged or perishable food from a dumpster.
Yes, I wouldn't eat out of a trash either. Sorry, that's just me. :) I thought the website and the whole concept was a little "out there" -- interesting and bizarre.
I do know people that dumpter-dive and sell stuff on eBay, though, and make good money off of it.
And there is a lot of consumer waste, I'll definitely agree to that.
A couple times in college my friends and I would wait until the bakery closed, then a while later go knock on the back door near the dumpster and ask if we could have the unsold loaves that they were going to throw out. For a while they gave it to us, then they got sick of us and started saying no, but we got a lot of free bread while it lasted. They were going to throw it out anyway, we were just intercepting the bread before it actually got to the trash!
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