Quote Originally Posted by mattks1
you know what, i double checked on this yesterday while i was working. the popo that i talked to said that once the trash hits the dumpster, it is then property of whoever owns that dumpster, such as GDS or whatever trash company you have there. i dont know about there, but my gov't doesnt pay to have dumpsters put behind Dollar General. and to think that it is resourceful to dumpster dive is a good way to make yourself reason with jumping into a recepticle for trash. for some reason this hits a nerve. i cant stand to drive down the road and see some redneck and his 2 kids in a station wagon with shit piled to the roof inside, pull over on the side of the road and start diggin through peoples trash. if you want it, you should have got a job and bought it to begin with.

are you privileged? cuz i find this sort of thinking despicable; i am a privileged white kid from a safe, clean, middle class community. i've never wanted for anything. but i understand that i'm lucky, and i'm grateful, and i try to have some compassion for all the folk that didn't have all the shit that i did and still do. don't be so quick to judge. you don't know someone's situation. you might have talked with that "redneck" and found them to be a very soulful person, dealing with hard times.
whitestalkslongwalks Reviewed by whitestalkslongwalks on . first dumpster dive this month I consider myself a Freegan, among other things. Freeganism is basically economic veganism, its a method of challenging capitalism by the efforts to consume and buy as little as possible. Its the idea of reuse, reduce and recycle to the extreme in order to improve the social, economic, animal and environmental state of the world. and this involves, among many many things, living off the 'waste' or byproducts of the system. which involves dumpster diving or urban foraging in order to obtain Rating: 5