{"id":2998,"date":"2008-05-15T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/05\/15\/plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:29:41","slug":"plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/plentiful-society-bountiful-waste-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Plentiful Society, Bountiful Waste – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"from<\/a>Part 1 of 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Someone needs to come up with a name for “perfectly-good-quality, yet discarded food.” When I say “food from a dumpster,” the immediate reaction tends to be a wrinkled nose. Folks picture rancid meat, moldy bread, and melting veggies in a smelly, unfriendly metal dumpster. While this can<\/em> be the case, it most often is not.<\/p>\n

For as long as our unsustainable society insists on wasting edible food, there will be people, mindful of this tragedy, to remediate it. They are known as “dumpster divers.”<\/p>\n

Dumpster diving<\/a> is a sustainable act — again, as long as our society insists on being too wasteful for sustainability. The food is there, and it is headed for a landfill. What is the logical thing to do?<\/p>\n

Dumpster diving takes good food out of the dumpsters and uses it to feed people. We reduce the company’s garbage bill, because they pay to tow their waste to a landfill. Plus, we get fed. And we don’t have to spend a cent. You can reduce society’s food waste while ending some of your own!<\/p>\n

Here are some handy tips<\/strong> for making a successful dumpster run<\/a>:<\/p>\n