pictures or whatever.

Do you REALLY dive for food?

Yes, some of us really dive for food. If you keep an open mind about this, food
diving can end up making a huge difference in your life. Many of us get to the
point where we just don't want to deal with any more nonfood "stuff".
Then, we start thinking about diving for expendable items

The first day I dived for food, I had just been IN the store buying marked
down 1/2 gallons of orange juice for $0.50. While I was doing the rest
of my shopping, someone came with a cart and loaded up all the
orange juice into a shopping cart.

So, I hung around to see what happened to it. They wheeled the cart out
and threw scores of gallons and 1/2 gallons of orange juice away...that were
still 2 days from their due date. They were pasteurized. They were still cold.
It was winter, so it was cool. I went to the dumpster and grabbed as many
as I could carry. This experience was life changing for me.

Where would you draw the line? Would you not buy the marked down OJ?
Would you take it out of the guy's cart if he were a few feet from the dumpster and
asked you if you wanted it for free? Would you take it out of the dumpster?

We food divers tap into the sad fact that we're throwing away 96 BILLION
pounds of perfectly good food into land fills each year in this country.
By EPA estimates, we're spending $4.8 BILLION a year disposing of that
perfectly good food.

You can read more about food waste here:

Food Recovery and Gleaning - USDA

I'm working on a separate page for food diving. Check back later.


Taken from "The dumpster lady"

kathy mentioned it a few weeks back... and after seeing the throw-out habits of starbucks I think dumpster diving would actually pretty productive..

I mean think about it-- starbucks throws away all of their pastries every night, *all* of them, its just standard proceedure.. thats a half a case of perfectly good scones, cookies and muffins that get dumped into a bag (hopefully) and then thrown into the dumpster.

You're shit out of luck if they throw the vittles directly into a can before it takes a trip to the dumpster.. otherwise you have yourself one sack of pastries sold usually at 1.50-2$ each, and with 10-20 pastries in a bag you can understand why this is a worth-while venture.

but dont tell anyone.. otherwise starbucks might start locking their dumpsters ¬_¬

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