Freegan Kitchen, tips for dumpster divers
This is an introduction to finding and creating delicious, healthy and quite safe meals, using ingredients found by dumpster diving behind grocery stores.
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This is an introduction to finding and creating delicious, healthy and quite safe meals, using ingredients found by dumpster diving behind grocery stores.
my garbage is my garbage i still own it! This may sound absurd but PERSONAL stuff is in there and it is an INVASION OF MY PRIVACY! yes we throw away too much stuff but even supermarkets throw office docs and visa/amex receipts in THERE garbage that is why it is ILLEGAL. It is sad the amount we throw out… but is also sad when we have to lock our garbage. i believe in not waisting food but stay out of our garbage!
Wow, good job you found old butter in somebody else’s garbage can. Great find!(you know butter only costs a few bucks at the grocery store, and it won’t make you sick).
freegans dont go through PEOPLES garbage, they go through the garbage of SUPERMARKETS that throw away full sealed and perfectly edible food.
I’ve been dumpster diving everything since 2005 the most amazing thing was a gold watch from near 1830 worth a few thousand that I gave to the Quaker Peace house at Ashland Oregon
I’ve listed a bunch of freecycle(dot)org things as well a Giant gear as well as two ipods Th e ipods never made it to freecyclers though
Being a detrivore makes being a moral vegetarian kind of different as I can eat anything I find at a dumpster if I believe it was placed there as authentic trash
Fuck you i will rummage through yours and anyone else garbage regardless of your approval.
my parents don’t support my freegan lifestyle. i live with them and they make me eat the dinner they made and not pick out of the garbage. my familys pretty good on not wasting food anyway
i want to dumpster dive but don’t want to go it alone (my first time at least), cant find anyone in my area
Where do u live
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liverpool, uk, yourself?
Ah np I live in Denmark. :d
lol i’ll go with you live in upstate SC?
the denmark in SC is more downstate than upstate isn’t it?
Dumpster diving isn’t illegal so you really don’t have to worry.
yeah its kinda in the middle
depends on the country, here in the UK it qualifies as theft but its not enforced
ha, i love dumpter diving, made a killing at school in FL. And make over 250$ a week here in MD which works out to lke 22$ an hour… tax free… Alwaysss grab empty ink cartridges and books! they are easy sells online to “buyback” companies
hey i live in minnesota… can you please give some ideas of which dumpsters to check out? like what stores? thanks!!!
Radio Shack, K-mart, BookStores (especially used), INDUSTRIAL PARKS
You reallly need to just try and hit EVERY shopping center and company in a 25 mile radius because you never know what you will find! do that a few times and you will learn the good ones, and you can focus on them! I’ll try and get a video of me diving and some stuff i’ve found. Best of luck!
Anything but restaurants.
The only thing to worry about is having the store know what you are doing.
This is why at the grocery store I work at I either pee on all the food or stick hypodermic needles in the food that we throw away. Boss told us to. (no joke)
God bless you jet, fuck these hippies.
@scarab088
Yeah fuck every last one of them. Sue me hippies!
butter made my dad fat
@nipsta3 ok im not poor my family actually has money and i dumpster dive around large department stores like olympia sports and i found 3 skateboards and 2 skateboard ramps and a grind rale but now i think the snap all there boards before throwing them in dumpsters but you can still sell the trucks,berrings and wheels