Dumpster diver digs deeper | Green Left Weekly
Saturday, September 26, 2009 Waste: uncovering the global food scandal By Tristram StuartPenguin, 2009496 pages, $25 (pb) When I arrived in Australia as a new immigrant in August 2008, I had no job...
View ArticleLaura Bruno ~ Tristram Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal …
I spent some time yesterday reading about the effects of Hurricane Sandy and was surprised (but not really) by a few articles mentioning “starvation” and how terrible it was that NYC residents had...
View ArticleWhy Dumpster Diving Isn’t the Solution (but we do it anyway …
Dumpster diving has become a pretty trendy thing. So trendy, that the hipster-mocking TV show Portlandia even did a sketch about it. After moving to Victoria last fall John and I decided to attempt...
View ArticleUC researcher looking at food consumption and wastage | Yahoo! News
A University of Canterbury (UC) anthropologist has been investigating the cultural economics of commercial food waste and Dumpster-diving. Dr David Boarder Giles has worked with Dumpster-divers and...
View ArticleA scavenger’s life | Ha’aretz
Dana, 21, a waiter in Tel Aviv, spends more money on dog food than on her own food. She buys high-quality commercial pet food for her dog, but the bread and vegetables that Dana, a vegetarian, uses to...
View ArticleYour trash may be someone else’s dinner | Sundial
If you’re one of the 50 million Americans struggling with hunger every day, you needn’t look further than your neighbor’s trash. In 2011, the United States tossed approximately 36 million tons (or...
View ArticleWhy do food stores and restaurants toss good food? | ecoRI News
From: FRANK CARINI/ecoRI News staff Published October 13, 2013 07:45 AM There’s a food craze taking hold in Greater Boston: Tossed-out food is being rescued from Dumpsters; past-expiration-date food...
View ArticleWe go Dumpster diving to study food waste | ABQ Journal
I don’t know what I was expecting when I climbed up on top of the garbage bin in a dark Albuquerque alley and hopped in. I was looking for food with an acquaintance of mine who lives off the discards...
View ArticleFood Waste Scorecard | East Bay Express
Just past midnight on a recent Wednesday, the half-moon hovered over Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland where waste bins had been put out on the street for pickup the next morning. Two homeless men shuffled...
View ArticleAdventures in Freeganism | How Food Waste Costs Us All
For Vancouver couple Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin, wasting food this holiday season when their family gathers for their annual potluck meal just isn't an option. Rustemeyer, 35, and Baldwin, 37,...
View ArticleFirst Social Supermarket Opens Selling ‘Surplus’ Food – And Advice | The...
Community Shop, in Goldthorpe, Barnsley, will sell its cheap produce solely to people who live in the nearby area and are receiving welfare support. The food, which will be “within date and...
View ArticleThe Food Waste Adventures of Mayya Husseini | World Public Health Nutrition...
I kept getting stuck on the fact that I needed to see this serious case of food waste firsthand so I could really feel the impact of its occurrence without any protective filters – a picture can only...
View Article1,500-mile bike ride — living only on dumpster food
Flint Twp. — After three tries, Rob Greenfield, 28, was able to find a dumpster to get food from. He and his cousin, Mike Badgley of Argentine Township, found success, and 10 pounds of produce at a...
View ArticleMan travels across the country dumpster diving
(WXYZ) - One man is traveling across the entire country, to bring awareness to a cause that doesn't get much notice, food waste. Rob Greenfield is riding his bike across the U.S., dumpster diving. His...
View ArticleDumpster diving is the summer life for activist traveling through area
LINDEN, MI – Rob Greenfield knows what's good in dumpsters throughout the country. Greenfield, 28, who lives in San Diego, began a trip cycling across the country, but on Aug. 9, after stopping in his...
View ArticleMan travels the U.S., eats from trash bins to dramatize food waste
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View ArticleDumpster-diner’s point on food waste valid but not a solution
Bob Greenfield is bicycling across the country again. Maybe he's coming to a Dumpster near you. Greenfield is a crusader against waste, and who better to pin it on than Americans? The usual hard time...
View ArticleDumpster diving fuels cyclist’s crusade against food waste
CLEVELAND — Rob Greenfield is standing barefoot and shirtless in a dumpster when he finds the strawberries. He’s ravenous after bicycling more than 60 miles, so he stops rummaging through bags and...
View ArticleAmerican Pickers coming to area
Mike Wolfe doesn’t just believe “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” No. Wolfe embodies dumpster diving. For him, garbage gleaning is an art; one he continues to perfect each week on HBO’s hit...
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