Green Options » freegan http://greenoptions.com/tag/freegan Posts tagged 'freegan' Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:57:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Mongo, Freegan and Dumpster Dive: Continuing The Life Cycle of “Junk” http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/07/mongo-freegan-and-dumpster-dive-continuing-the-life-cycle-of-junk/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/07/mongo-freegan-and-dumpster-dive-continuing-the-life-cycle-of-junk/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:57:55 +0000 Adam Williams http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/07/mongo-freegan-and-dumpster-dive-continuing-the-life-cycle-of-junk/

Fellow sustainablogger Robin Shreeves recently wrote a great and helpful post — Your Trash Just Doesn’t Disappear, Stupid! (Or How To Make Sure Useful Things Stay Out of Landfills) — that touches on a bit of a phenomenon that piques my interest: mongoing, freeganism, dumpster diving.

The term “dumpster diving” probably conjures certain derogatory images: “bums,” lowlife dregs of society sifting through mostly rotten morsels of discarded food for sustenance.

Pushing aside such an unfortunate view of human beings living, hopefully only temporarily, in such unfortunate circumstances, let’s look at what dumpster diving has become: environmentally friendly, if not downright urban chic.

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