bin diving (freeganism)

[Dub_freak]

Wow thats insane, never really thought about it before. will go and watch this now

[topmo3]

do any of you scourge for thrown away goods at for example supermarket dumpsters? every now and then i start thinking how fucked up the whole system is and how there are hungry and needy people yet every day stores throw tons of perfectly usable food away.

i've never actually done it, although i'd like to. but around here at least it's made pretty difficult because usually the supermarket thrash bins are in locked cages and most stores have it in their employee rules that they have to even purposefully ruin the items so no one can take them.. by for example stabbing fruits and pouring sour milk over them or just destroying the packaging on everything. the few occasions where the dumpsters are somehow reachable it's usually a guarded secret among dumpster divers.

[esfandyar]

best way to check eggs to see if they are still edible is to put them in water. if they float, they are bad. i dont personally do it, but i support it fully, and have lots of friends who do. you would be surprised as to how much food grocery stores throw away that is still good. look into your state or country's laws, some places outlaw it which is ridiculous.

[collige]

I had a friend who did this once back in college. She got some (unopened) cheese and some other stuff from a dumpster and it stunk up her whole apartment. Would not advise.

[kidshuffle]

I had friends who did this all the time, I'm not really a fan but do whatever floats your boat. I wouldn't recommend it in your area tho since you're saying most of the bins are locked. That could be seen as trespassing.

Imo tho, what does dumpster diving really do on an ethical level? The argument that "theres so much waste and theres people who need that food..." is well intended, but those people still aren't getting that food. If one does it to stick it to the man, or save on their own costs, I can see where you're coming from.

[rockonin]

Never done it, probably never will, but respect to the people who do.

[test_recordings]

A mate regularly did this, he said you learn really quickly how to identify what's good or not

[ultraspatial]

lol @ the hippies in this thread

[esfandyar]

lol @ the hippies in this thread

my previous post a while back, with this merge has unveiled that i know a bunch more from personal experience on the topic lol thanks.

[Shum]

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[ezza]

peak that all that food goes to waste, they should deffo give to the homeless or some shit

however, jumping in a bin... sideman antics

[DJoe]

eating food taken from a bin is so fucking poor

[OGLemon]

peak that all that food goes to waste, they should deffo give to the homeless or some shit

this. restaurants be on a dickhead thing.

[Harkat]

I've heard the argument goes that if they start handing out the leftovers, and some poor sod gets sick from it, they can get sued up the asshole. And that's why they have to waste so much.

I dunno, sounds like a cop-out to me.

[nitz]

I think they problem is everyone (give or take) wants their food to be super perfect and if it's not then it's thrown away. I remember see something a few years ago supermarkets would dash perfectly edible food because of it's shape - so for example if a apple wasn't not almost circle shape they would dash it. I think almost everyone i know what happily eat a odd shaped apple, as long as it still was a edible apple - perhaps its a class thing, middle and up class are too picky about shit?

Plus, to my understanding big super cafe shops like starbuck also at the end of the day dash their leftover for policy reason - same as some supermarkets.

Plus didn't the Abercrombie owner say he would rather destroy his leftover clothing then give it away for charity? What a 100% tnuc

"Abercrombie and Fitch doesn’t want to create the image that just anybody, poor people, can wear their clothing. Only people of a certain stature are able to purchase and wear the company name"

Then this happened

[test_recordings]

Actually, it wasn't so long ago it became legal to sell 'class II' produce to people in the UK. Before that anything that looked a bit fucked but was edible still couldn't be sold. Morrisons have a class 2 section I think, a tiny trolley somewhere

[rickyarbino]

Think I'm gonna start doing this.

[nitz]

Actually, it wasn't so long ago it became legal to sell 'class II' produce to people in the UK. Before that anything that looked a bit fucked but was edible still couldn't be sold. Morrisons have a class 2 section I think, a tiny trolley somewhere

I buy orangic jazz apples from waitrose now and away and they are class II - but still has less shit in them in your conventionally grown jazz apple - I don't really understand the class system. Plus i'm prteey sure i've brought some class II veg from tesco too

[cloaked_up]

why the correlation between psytrance and bin divubg???

[finji]

stfu