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'''Garbage picking''' is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential [[waste]] to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the garbage picker. Garbage picking may take place in dumpsters or in landfills. When in dumpsters, the practice is called '''''dumpster diving''''' in American English and '''''skipping''''' in British English.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23714626-so-im-a-skip-addict---avocado-bath-suite-anyone.do|title=So, I'm a skip addict - avocado bath suite, anyone?|last=Lewycka |first=Marina |date= 2 July 2009 |publisher=London Evening Standard|accessdate=2009-10-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news561.htm|title=Issue 561|date=22 September 2006|publisher=SchNEWS|accessdate=2009-11-11}}</ref> Dumpster diving is viewed as an effective urban [[foraging]] technique.<ref name="Dos">{{cite web|last=Admin|title=The Do's and Don'ts of Dumpster Diving|url=http://wildernesssurvivaltechniques.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-dumpster-diving/|work=Wilderness Survival Techniques|accessdate=9 March 2012}}</ref> Dumpster divers will forage dumpsters for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.<ref name="Dos"/>
'''Garbage picking''' is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential [[waste]] to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the garbage picker. Garbage picking may take place in dumpsters or in landfills. When in dumpsters, the practice is called '''''dumpster diving''''' in American English and '''''skipping''''' in British English.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23714626-so-im-a-skip-addict---avocado-bath-suite-anyone.do|title=So, I'm a skip addict - avocado bath suite, anyone?|last=Lewycka |first=Marina |date= 2 July 2009 |publisher=London Evening Standard|accessdate=2009-10-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news561.htm|title=Issue 561|date=22 September 2006|publisher=SchNEWS|accessdate=2009-11-11}}</ref> Dumpster diving is viewed as an effective urban [[foraging]] technique.<ref name="Dos">{{cite web|last=Admin|title=The Do's and Don'ts of Dumpster Diving|url=http://wildernesssurvivaltechniques.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-dumpster-diving/|work=Wilderness Survival Techniques|accessdate=9 March 2012}}</ref> Dumpster divers will forage dumpsters for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.<ref name="Dos"/>


Etymology and alternative names==
==Etymology and alternative names==
The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial [[Dustbin|trash bins]], Dempster, who use the trade name "[[Dumpster]]" for their bins,<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Oxford American Dictionary|editor=Erin McKean|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|edition=second|isbn=0-19-517077-6}}</ref> and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool. In practice, the size and design of most dumpsters makes it possible to retrieve many items from the outside of dumpsters without having to "dive" into them.
The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial [[Dustbin|trash bins]], Dempster, who use the trade name "[[Dumpster]]" for their bins,<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Oxford American Dictionary|editor=Erin McKean|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|edition=second|isbn=0-19-517077-6}}</ref> and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool. In practice, the size and design of most dumpsters makes it possible to retrieve many items from the outside of dumpsters without having to "dive" into them.


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The result of dumpster diving in Linköping, Sweden.

Garbage picking is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential waste to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the garbage picker. Garbage picking may take place in dumpsters or in landfills. When in dumpsters, the practice is called dumpster diving in American English and skipping in British English.[1][2] Dumpster diving is viewed as an effective urban foraging technique.[3] Dumpster divers will forage dumpsters for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.[3]

Etymology and alternative names

The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name "Dumpster" for their bins,[4] and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool. In practice, the size and design of most dumpsters makes it possible to retrieve many items from the outside of dumpsters without having to "dive" into them.

The practice of dumpster diving can additionally be referred to as bin-diving,[5] containering,[6] D-mart,[7] dumpstering,[8] tatting, skipping[9] or "recycled" food.

Furthermore, the term "binner" is often used to describe individuals who collect recyclable materials for their deposit value. In Australia, garbage picking is called "skip dipping".

Background

A man rummaging through a skip at the back of an office building in Central London

The organization Same Day Dumpsters has written, "Traditionally, most people who resorted to dumpster-diving were forced to do so out of economic necessity, but this is not the case today."[10]

  • In Vancouver, Binners or bottle collectors search garbage cans and dumpsters for recyclable materials that can be redeemed for their deposit value. On average, these binners earn about $40 per day for several garbage bags full of discarded containers.[11]
  • The karung guni, Zabbaleen, the rag and bone man, waste picker, junk man or bin hoker are people who make their living by sorting and trading trash. A similar process known as gleaning was practiced in rural areas and some ancient agricultural societies, where the residue from farmers' fields was collected.
  • Some dumpster divers, who self-identify as freegans, aim to reduce their ecological footprint by living exclusively from dumpster dived-goods.
  • A wide variety of things may be disposed while still repairable or in working condition, making salvage of them if not profitable at least a source of potentially free items for personal use.
  • Artists often utilize discarded materials retrieved from trash receptacles to create works of found art or assemblage.[12]
  • Students have been known to partake in dumpster diving to obtain high tech items for technical projects, or simply to indulge their curiosity for unusual items.[13]
  • Dumpster diving can additionally be used in support of academic research. It serves as the main tool for garbologists, who study the sociology and archeology of trash in modern life. Private and government investigators may dumpster dive to obtain information for their inquiries.
  • By reusing resources destined for the landfill, dumpster diving becomes an environmentalist endeavor (and is thus practiced by many pro-green communities). The wastefulness of consumer society and throw-away culture compels some individuals to rescue usable items (for example, computers) from destruction and divert them to those who can make use of the item in question.
  • Irregular, blemished, or damaged items that are still otherwise functional are regularly thrown away. Discarded food that might have slight imperfections, that is near its expiration date, or that is simply being replaced by newer stock is often thrown away despite being still edible. Many retailers are reluctant to sell this stock at reduced prices due to the risks that people will buy it instead of the higher priced newer stock, that extra handling time is required, and that there are liability risks. In the United Kingdom, cookery books have been written on the cooking and consumption of such foods, and skipping has become popular as a result of this.

Arguments against dumpster diving often focus on the health and cleanliness implications of people rummaging in trash.[citation needed] This exposes the dumpster divers to potential health risks, and, especially if the dumpster diver does not return the non-usable items to their previous location, may leave trash scattered around. Divers can also be seriously injured or killed by garbage collection vehicles; in January 2012, in La Jolla, Swiss-American gentleman Alfonso de Bourbon was killed by a truck while dumpster diving.[14] Further, there are also concerns around the legality of taking items that may still technically belong to the person who threw them away (or to the waste management operator), and whether the taking of some items like discarded documents is a violation of privacy.

Discarded billing records may be used for identity theft. As a privacy violation, discarded medical records as trash led to a $140,000 penalty against Massachusetts billing company Goldthwait Associates and a group of pathology offices in 2013[15] and a $400,000 settlement between Midwest Women’s Healthcare Specialists and 1,532 clients in Kansas City in 2014.[16]

Items

  • Dumpster diving is practised differently in developed countries than in developing countries. In many developing countries, food is rarely thrown away unless it is rotten as food is scarce in comparison to developed nations. In countries like the United States, where 40–50% of food is wasted, the trash contains a lot more food to gather.[17]
  • In many countries, charities collect excess food from supermarkets and restaurants and distribute it to impoverished neighbourhoods. Dumpster divers, Karung guni, Zabaleen, and rag and bone men in these countries may concentrate on looking for usable items or scrap materials to sell rather than food items.[citation needed]
  • In the United States, Canada, and Europe, some bakeries, grocery stores, or restaurants will routinely donate food according to a Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, but more often, because of health laws or company policy, they are required to discard food items by the expiration date, because of overstock, being overly ripened, spoiled, cosmetically imperfect, or blemished.
  • Offices, factories, department stores, and other commercial establishments may equally throw out non-perishable items that are irregular, were returned, have minor damages, or are replaced by newer inventory. Most items tend to be in such a state of disrepair or cosmetically flawed that they will require some work by the dumpster diver to make the items functionally usable. For this reason, factory workers will at times intentionally destroy their items prior to being discarded to prevent them from being reused or resold.
  • As proof to publishing houses of unsold merchandise, booksellers will routinely remove the front covers of printed materials to render them destroyed prior to tossing the remains in the dumpster. Though readable, many damaged publications have disclaimers and legal notices against their existence or sale.
  • Some consumer electronics are dumped because of their rapid depreciation, obsolescence, cost to repair, or expense to upgrade. Owners of functional computers may find it easier to dump them rather than donate because many nonprofit organizations and schools are unable, or unwilling, to work with used equipment.[18] Some organizations like Geeks Into The Streets, reBOOT, Free Geek and Computerbank try to refurbish old computers for charity or educational use.
  • While thrift stores routinely refuse used goods which they cannot cheaply and easily resell, the items which they do accept cost them nothing. There is therefore no shrinkage cost associated with discarding mendable garments, repairable appliances or even working donated items which are overstock or find no buyer after some arbitrary length of time.
  • Manufacturers often find it cheaper to routinely discard items returned as defective under warranty instead of repairing them, although a device is often repairable or usable as a source of spare parts to repair other, similar discarded devices.
  • Occasionally, vendors dispose of unsaleable, non-defective new merchandise as landfill. The Atari video game burial in Alamogordo, New Mexico after the North American video game crash of 1983 is a well-known example; a 2014 excavation recovered about 1300 games for curation as museum exhibits or auction.
  • Sometimes dumpsters may contain recyclable metals and materials that can be reused or sold to recycling plants and scrap yards. The most common recyclable metals found are steel and aluminum. [citation needed]
  • Residential buildings can additionally be a good source of clothing, furniture, appliances, and other housewares. There is a risk that discarded bedding may contain bed bugs, a hazard to be avoided.[19]
  • Colleges with dormitories are often a good place to find items at the end of the semester when students throw away many items such as furniture, clothes and electronics.[20]

Legal status

Since dumpsters are usually located on private premises, divers may occasionally get in trouble for trespassing while dumpster diving, though the law is enforced with varying degrees of rigor. Dumpster diving is often not prohibited by law. Abandonment of property is another principle of law that applies to recovering materials via dumpster diving.

Police searches of dumpsters as well as similar methods are also generally not considered violations; evidence seized in this way has been permitted in many criminal trials. The doctrine is not as well established in regards to civil litigation.

Companies run by private investigators specializing in dumpster diving have emerged as a result of the need for discreet, undetected retrieval of documents and evidence for civil and criminal trials. Private investigators have also written books on "P.I. technique" in which dumpster diving or its equivalent "wastebasket recovery" figures prominently.

  • In the United States, the 1988 California v. Greenwood case in the U.S. Supreme Court held that there is no common law expectation of privacy for discarded materials.[non-primary source needed] There are, however, limits to what can legally be taken from a company's refuse. In a 1983 Minnesota case involving the theft of customer lists from a garbage can, Tennant Company v. Advance Machine Company (355 N.W.2d 720), the owner of the discarded information was awarded $500,000 in damages.[21]
  • Dumpster diving in England and Wales may qualify as theft within the Theft Act 1968[22] or as common-law theft in Scotland, though there is very little enforcement in practice.
  • In Italy, a law issued in 2000 declared dumpster diving to be legal.
  • In Germany, a dumpster's contents are regarded as the property of the dumpster's owner. Therefore, taking items from a dumpster is viewed as theft. Be that as it may, the police will routinely disregard the illegality of dumpster diving seeing as the items found are generally of low value. There has only been one known instance where divers were to be prosecuted: the individuals were arrested on assumed burglary as they had surmounted a supermarket's fence which was then followed by a theft complaint by the owner.[23]
  • In Canada, The Trespass to Property Act[citation needed] - legislation dating back to the British North America Act of 1867 - grants property owners and security guards the power to ban anyone from their premises, for any reason, permanently. This is done by issuing a notice to the intruder, who will only be breaking the law upon return. A recent case in Canada, which involved a police officer who retrieved a discarded weapon from a trash receptacle as evidence, created some controversy. The judge ruled the policeman's actions as legal although there was no warrant present, which led some to speculate the event as validation for any Canadian citizen to raid garbage disposals.[24]
  • In 2009, a Belgian dumpster diver and eco-activist nicknamed Ollie was detained for a month for dumpster diving, and was accused of theft and burglary. On February 25, 2009, Ollie was arrested for taking food from a dumpster at an AD Delhaize supermarket in Bruges. His trial evoked protests in Belgium against restrictions from taking discarded food items.[25][26][27]

Notable instances

  • In the 1960s, Jerry Schneider, using recovered instruction manuals from The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, used the company's own procedures to acquire hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of telephone equipment over several years until his arrest.
  • The Castle Infinity game, after its shutdown, was brought back from the dead by rescuing its servers from the trash.[28]
  • Food Not Bombs is an anti-hunger organization that gets a significant amount of its food from dumpster diving from the dumpsters at small markets and corporate grocery stores in the US and UK.[29]
  • In 2009, pro-surfer Dane Reynolds salvaged a piece of polyester foam from a dumpster behind the Channel Islands Surfboard factory. He shaped the foam into a surfboard that, at the time, was thought to be "short, fat, and ugly." The goal of this new shape was to distribute volume to the width and thickness of the board, cutting down on the overall board length needed to use in smaller surf, while staying progressive on the face of the wave. The board was a hit and was dubbed the "dumpster diver". The board changed the way surfboard shapers designed boards for use in smaller waves.
  • In October 2013, in North London, three men were arrested and charged under the 1824 Vagrancy Act when they were caught taking discarded food: tomatoes, mushrooms, cheese and cakes from bins behind an Iceland supermarket. The charges were dropped on 29 January 2014 after much public criticism,[30] and a request by Iceland's chief executive, Malcolm Walker.[31]

In popular culture

Books

  • Author John Hoffman wrote two books based on his own dumpster-diving exploits: The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving (1993 ; ISBN 978-1-58160-550-1) and Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course: How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power (2002; ISBN 978-1-58160-369-9), and was featured in the documentary DVD The Ultimate Dive, which was directed by Suzanne Girot and described by the Internet Movie Database" as a "Tongue-in-cheek how-to film on the art and science of dumpster diving."
  • In 2001, dumpster diving was popularized in the book Evasion, published by CrimethInc.[32]
  • In Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel Fifty Degrees Below (2005), the character Frank Vanderwal joins, for a time, a group of freegans who frequently prepare feasts culled from dumpsters; kind-hearted restaurateurs aid them by setting aside foods which have not been touched by the public.
  • Jeff Ferrell, Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, is the author of Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (2005; ISBN 978-0-81472-738-6).
  • Recovery of still-useful items from discards is well known in other cultures as well; James Fallows noted it in his book, Looking at the Sun: the Rise of the new East Asian Economic and Political System (2005), written about his time living in Japan. However, much of the richness attributed to dumpster diving in Japan ended with the collapse of the nation's economic bubble in 1990.[citation needed]

Television programs

Films

  • Surfing the Waste: A Musical Documentary About Dumpster Diving, a film by Paul Aflalo, Sandra Lombardi and Tomoe Yoshihara, with music composed by Alden Penner and Nic Boshart.[33][34]
  • Dumpster Wars: Reno's Trash Politics (2008)[35][36]
  • I Love Trash (2007), a 30-minute documentary by David Brown and Greg Mann. OCLC's WorldCat provided a synopsis: "I Love Trash is a documentary about the art of dumpster diving. Starting with an empty apartment, only the clothes they were wearing and a flashlight, David and Greg find everything they might otherwise buy, in trash cans and dumpsters. All their food, clothes, electronics, art materials and entertainment, all out of the trash."[37] Accolades: Skyfest Film and Script Festival, (won 2nd place for Documentary Films[38]); and Lake Michigan Film Competition, (won 3rd place for Documentary films).[39]
  • The 2010 documentary film Dive!, a short documentary written and directed by Jeremy Seifert, investigates dumpster diving in the Los Angeles area.[40] Dive! premiered in October 2009 at the Gig Harbor Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award. It has gone on to win awards at many other film festivals, including Best Documentary at the DC Independent Film Festival and Best Film at the Dutch Environmental Film Festival.
  • Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest. A short film/mystery film and documentary by Alex Mallis. (2012) Accolades: Official Selection, New Orleans Film Festival. Official Selection, Independent Film Festival of Boston. Official Selection, DOC NYC.[41][42]
  • The Leftovers: A Documentary about People Who Eat Trash (2008), a 28-minute Swedish documentary by Michael Cavanagh and Kerstin Übelacker.[43] Mykel Bently, Paul Hood, Krystal Trickey, Nick Gill, and Sofia Arborelius (the latter two were exchange students) joined together for this dumpster diver adventure.
  • From Dumpster To Dinner Plate (2011), an award-winning New Zealand short documentary directed by Vanessa Hudson. "As the cost of food reaches record highs an underground movement of dumpster divers is rapidly gaining momentum fuelled by consumers who are forced to find creative ways to feed themselves."[44]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Issue 561". SchNEWS. 22 September 2006. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
  3. ^ a b Admin. "The Do's and Don'ts of Dumpster Diving". Wilderness Survival Techniques. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  4. ^ Erin McKean, ed. (2005). The New Oxford American Dictionary (second ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517077-6.
  5. ^ Renton, Alex (August 17, 2007). "Why I love bin diving". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
  6. ^ "Dumpster diving stays on trend in Germany". Dw-world.de. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  7. ^ Niki D'Andrea (2012-08-30). "Dumpster Dining: For Freegans, Eating Garbage Is Getting Downright Trendy - Page 1 - News - Phoenix". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2012-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Colon, Dalia (April 11, 2008). "One man's trash is another man's ... lunch ≤or software treat≥". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
  9. ^ "Skipping Diner". 2010. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
  10. ^ Jules. "Are you really interested in Dumpster Diving?". Same Day Dumpsters. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  11. ^ Jackson, Emily (2010-07-28). "Vancouver fireworks a boon for city". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  12. ^ Sachs, Andrea (7 November 2004). "Get Your Mind Into the Gutter". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  13. ^ Allison, Cyndeth (8 May 2007). "Dumpster Diving". North Denver News.
  14. ^ Schwab, Dave (11 January 2012). "Victim in alleyway dumpster death identified as Alfonso de Bourbon, 83". La Jolla Light. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  15. ^ http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2013/01/07/doctors-billing-company-pay-penalty-for-records-tossed-public-dump/FDGSf172lyc2xasT6D0DRM/story.html
  16. ^ http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article4279093.html
  17. ^ Harrison, Jeff (18 November 2004). "U.S. Wastes Half of Food Produced". Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  18. ^ Ha, Tanya (6 November 2003). "E-waste". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2007-06-11. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. ^ http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2011/04/bedbugs190411.aspx
  20. ^ Lawrence, Robyn Griggs (6 May 2011). "College Graduation Means Great Dumpster Diving". Retrieved 2012-11-07.
  21. ^ "TENNANT CO. v. ADVANCE MACH. CO., INC. 355 N.W.2d 720 (1984)".
  22. ^ "Theft Act 1968". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives.
  23. ^ "Archiv". taz.de. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  24. ^ Cory Doctorow. "Wired 5.09: Dumpster Diving". Wired.com. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  25. ^ Auteur: Arne Franck. "De Standaard: Arrogante houding houdt voedseldief in de cel". Standaard.be. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  26. ^ "Update Skipper in de Brugse gevangenis". Indymedia NL. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  27. ^ "Lawaaidemo voor Ollie aan de poorten van de Burgse gevangenis". Indymedia.be. 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  28. ^ "Classic MMOG Raised From the Dead by Past Players - Slashdot". Games.slashdot.org. 2005-06-21. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
  29. ^ Greenwell, Megan (2006-08-16). "Diving for Dinner - washingtonpost.com". washingtonpost.com<!. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  30. ^ Saner, Emine (2009-12-22). "Skipping: is there anything wrong with taking the food that supermarkets throw away?". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  31. ^ Malcolm Walker (2013-12-04). "Why Iceland wanted the bin theft case dropped". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  32. ^ CrimethInc. contributor (2001). "Evasion". CrimethInc. Retrieved November 7, 2014. A 288 page novel-like narrative, Evasion is one person's travelogue of thievery and trespassing across the country, evading not only arrest, but also the 40-hour workweek and hopeless boredom of modern life. The journey documents a literal and metaphorical reclamation of an individual's life and the spaces surrounding them—scamming, squatting, dumpstering, train hopping and shoplifting... {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  33. ^ Taborelli, Silvia (2008). "Surfing the Waste: A Musical Documentary about Dumpster Diving". NISI MASA, European Network of Young Cinema. Retrieved November 7, 2014. Liz, Mike, Allison, Owain and Alden are five youngsters living in Montreal. They dance, sing and play in this upbeat short film which tells about "dumpster diving". It may sound like a sport, but it's actually a way of life.
  34. ^ Aflalo, Paul (November 25, 2008). "Surfing the Waste, making it's World Premiere at IDFA 2008". Indyish. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  35. ^ "One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure". Reno Gazette-Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  36. ^ Fortenbury, Jon (May 26, 2011). "Diving Team: Come on in, the Dumpster's fine". NewsReview. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  37. ^ WorldCat (2007). "I Love Trash". OCLC. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  38. ^ Skyfest (2007). "Feature Documentary: I Love Trash". Skyfest Film and Script Festival. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  39. ^ Skyfest Film & Script Festival (2007). "Winners SkyFest I". Green Planet Films. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  40. ^ Seifert, Jeremy (2010). "Dive!". Compeller Pictures. Retrieved November 7, 2014. Inspired by a curiosity about our country's careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster-dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles' supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food... Winner of 21 Awards by Festivals Worldwide.
  41. ^ Mallis, Alex (2012). "Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest". Analect Films. Retrieved November 7, 2014. Emulating the tradition of American Direct Cinema, filmmaker Alex Mallis captures intimate portraits of the divers, illuminating a practice as old as agriculture. Mallis' fly-on-the-wall access to these Brooklynites bring us along for a journey through the culture of dumpster diving, offering an unvarnished glimpse into one night of urban harvest.
  42. ^ Lacey, Stephen (November 21, 2012). "Spoils: Film Documents Americans Who Reap An 'Extraordinary Harvest' From Waste". ThinkProgress. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  43. ^ A WG Film Production (2008). "A Recycled Road Trip". www.theleftovers.net. Retrieved November 7, 2014. A group of five diverse people have challenged themselves to drive 2000 km down the east coast of Australia in a veggie oil powered van, living on nothing but waste. With zero money but plenty of passion they put both themselves and society to the test.
  44. ^ "From Dumpster To Dinner Plate". www.fromdumpstertodinnerplate.com/. 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2014.

Further reading

  • Dumpster Diving - One Man's Trash by Grifter; originally given as a presentation at a 2600 meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later published in the Summer 2002 issue of 2600 Magazine
  • Art and Science of Dumpster Diving by John Hoffman; ISBN 1-55950-088-3
  • Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course by John Hoffman (brings dumpster diving into the computer era) Paladin Press 2002; ISBN 1-58160-369-X
  • Evasion, (2003), CrimethInc. Far East, an autobiography detailing one anarchist's shoplifting- and dumpster-diving-supported travels.
  • Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha; ISBN 1-58234-452-3
  • Encyclopedia of Garbage by Steve Coffel, William L. Rathje; ISBN 0-8160-3135-5
  • Eikenberry, Nicole; Smith, Chery (2005). "Attitudes, beliefs, and prevalence of dumpster diving as a means to obtain food by Midwestern, low-income, urban dwellers". Agriculture and Human Values. 22 (2): 187. doi:10.1007/s10460-004-8278-9.

External links

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