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 R_Unit
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 Dumpsterdiving First Time  1
#15911984 - 03/06/12 11:26 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Tonight I went dumpster diving for the first time. My wife has been trying to convince me to go for a while and I finally gave in. We ended up going to the back of Trader Joes after it closed.
We ended up getting almost 3 dozen eggs (one broken egg per carton), a pound of bacon, a pound of clover honey, organic ginger snap cookies, peppers( 2 in a 3 pack were good), raspberry frozen yogurtmix, and sorbet mix.
Our food system is crazy. If one out of ___ items is bad in a package, they throw out everything. If too many cookies in a box are crumbled, they toss it. Not enough shelf space when the new items come in, throw out the old items. Its crazy.
It has made me rethink food. Vegetables grow out of dirt, fertilized with manure. Eggs come out of a chickens ass ( really, chickens have one duct for urine, feces, and eggs). Pigs eat and root in shit as Verne said, so how clean is bacon to start with?
Just wondering if anyone else out there is a dumpster diver or even a freegan? I know some of you will judge me, but you don't have to eat it. More for me, I will be a happy dirty hippy.
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 tyrannicalrex
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15911994 - 03/06/12 11:28 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think that is awesome! I wish they would think about giving it to someone or someplace before they toss it.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15912008 - 03/06/12 11:31 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
R_Unit said:
a pound of bacon, .
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AcidMonster
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: XUL]
#15912023 - 03/06/12 11:35 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was at WINCOthe other day (a large chain food store) and there was a guy gathering all the bread/pastry items at the end of the night in a shopping cart pretty much overflowing. He says that he does it every night so after I asked if I could buy it for a discount I asked where it's journey is. Turns out they donate it to a charity and a few school programs for the needy. I was happy to hear that and that they do not throw it away.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: AcidMonster] 1
#15912044 - 03/06/12 11:40 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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The most amazing place for dumpster diving is at college campus dorms at the end of the spring semester.
Imagine buildings packed with students, with parents that buy them new computer equipment (and whatever else for which they ask) on demand. At the end of the school year anything that's become obsolete gets tossed. Add to that a hard move-out date (they get charged if they're not out on time) so you get this tsunami of stuff all getting thrown out all at once. If you've ever moved, you know how much work it is; multiply that times a building of 500 people.
You end up with hoards of students tossing all sorts of valuable stuff that they don't give a fcuk about because they didn't pay for it in the first place. It completely overwhelms the disposal units; I've seen dumpsters filled to the brim with computers, monitors, keyboards, and other stuff, and with more equipment piled around them.
It's ridiculous. Just a massive disregard for the value of things.
The key is timing; there's like a two-day window between when everyone tosses their stuff and when the university carts it away to the landfill. Sunday night!
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AcidMonster
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You have to be quick to jump on those dumpsters though. The garbage companies know this and usually clean them out the following day
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unam sanctum
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Quote:
tyrannicalrex said:
I think that is awesome! I wish they would think about giving it to someone or someplace before they toss it.
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PatrickKn
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Not for me, but more power to you.
I support laws that allow expired food to go to food banks and charity's with no legal repercussions should anyone get sick from the donated food.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: PatrickKn] 1
#15912150 - 03/07/12 12:15 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Some places do donate food, but a lot do not. Its a complicated system. For instance, if one apple is bad in a bag of 12, the bag has to go. Why? First because there are several bags to choose from, it is likely that that bag will keep getting passed over and all 12 apples will go bad on the shelf. They usually can't open it and the 11 good apples because there isn't a SKU for that and it would mess up the inventory. Then a lot of companies don't donate for 2 reasons, one it can open them up to additional liability and 2 it can give employees an incentive to say good food is bad and take it themselves.
But, its not just corporations being evil, that is way over simplified. Corporations are just groups of people meeting the demand of customers. The public wants to be able to have food that looks the same all the time and is available all year. We want to buy food that doesn't grow in our region or isn't in season. We don't want to remember where our meat comes from and we have no interest in how our food is made or what is in it. With all the demands that consumers have, this is the system we get.
I don't know the solution and I am part of the problem. I mean, I like pineapple,
but it is winter and pineapples don't grow with in 1000 miles of my house, and I still buy them for four bucks.
i If I want a kiwi they pick it in new Zealand, store it in nitrogen just above freezing, wait 6 months send halfway around the planet and I can buy it for 33 cents. That is kind of insane. A system that has something that cheap is going to produce a lot of waste. There are a lot of kiwis in a dumpster somewhere.
Its just crazy to me.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15912158 - 03/07/12 12:17 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
R_Unit said:
Then a lot of companies don't donate for 2 reasons, one it can open them up to additional liability
Not if there are laws in place that protect the company who donated the food from lawsuits over bad food that was donated. And in some places, there are such laws.
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take care that none of the food you get has been thrown out because of a safety recall
i remember recently that a few bags of frozen vegis(cant recall the brands)were found to have bits of glass in em
but yea iv thought about going diving
sounds neat-like a grown up easter egg hunt
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: Micawber] 1
#15912168 - 03/07/12 12:21 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Its just fucked up that people starve. I mean that shit is shipped in from wherever just to get tossed so we can have variety and overabundance 
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15912177 - 03/07/12 12:27 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have found some pretty cool things in the trash before. I found a working dvd player and vcr. I have also found couches that are pretty nice. The bed I am using now was in the trash, and it is the most comfortable bed I have ever slept on.
One time, me and my buddies were dumpster diving. We were all 13-15. We found a sizable pornography stash. 5 movies and 20ish magazines. At the time it was a major score.
I have tried many times to get food from the grocery store. They throw out all of their old stuff that I still find to be perfectly usable. In one grocery store, they offered to sell it to me at 10% off. I asked for a bigger discount saying they get nothing if they throw it away. They threw it away...
Another place had a completely contained trash system, making it impossible to dig through their trash.
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R_Unit
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: Aser]
#15912251 - 03/07/12 01:02 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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So, I guess this isn't my first dumpster dive. Just the first one for food. Last year I got a chop saw, elecric power router, compound bow and set of dishes. Also found Playboys when I was in first grade, and life was never the same again.
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Keynes
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15912282 - 03/07/12 01:14 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've never dived for food, but it really is amazing what people will throw away. So much waste.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: Keynes]
#15912325 - 03/07/12 01:39 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wouldn't ever dumpster dive unless I reached bum status.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: Mafeki] 2
#15912331 - 03/07/12 01:43 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Mafeki said:
I wouldn't ever dumpster dive unless I reached bum status.
There is so much cool shit that people just throw away. Don't knock it til you try it.
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fee
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: PatrickKn]
#15912386 - 03/07/12 02:13 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
PatrickKn said:
Quote:
R_Unit said:
Then a lot of companies don't donate for 2 reasons, one it can open them up to additional liability
Not if there are laws in place that protect the company who donated the food from lawsuits over bad food that was donated. And in some places, there are such laws.
There's a federal law in place that protects any company that donates in the USA of liability.
Bill Clinton passed it.
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I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off.
Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man.
And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion?
Religion is fun.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: fee]
#15912427 - 03/07/12 02:45 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Glad to know companies are protected when they donate. I hope more companies will do so.
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Re: Dumpsterdiving First Time [Re: R_Unit]
#15912789 - 03/07/12 06:41 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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That is pretty cool! All the food I find here is really rotten.
I love dumpster diving, but the only dumpster here is a highway
department one. There is always strange stuff.
My best score was a surround sound system still in box. It must have
fallen off the back of a semi truck.
EditShop for: Dumpster Dive for: Delicious Bacon.
Edited by SimonJester (03/07/12 06:47 AM)
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