Comments on: Dumpster diving with freegans

By: orionciara

orionciara — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:02:29 +0000

Other than possibly picking up various vermin, lice, and rat/raccoon bites, this practice should not be allowed by city and building owners. There are too many dangerous variables to overcome. These containers should have locked covers, with only a wide window to deposit throwaways. Alternately, there is a wonderful and hilarious book called “Mongo,” about professional New Yorkers who early-morning scavenge the upper crust streets for amazing antiques, furniture, clothing, and other pricey, discarded objects.

By: PollyKlein

PollyKlein — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:54:25 +0000

Get off your butt and let the posts through!
What’s the matter with you?
Nobody will comment again if their posts never appear.
If I don’t see my last one soon, every person on your roster will hear about what a slacker you are, working against the whole organization. Think I’m kidding? Try me!

By: Laster

Laster — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:03:55 +0000

This may not come across exactly as intended but your mouth may hold more germs than the vegetables the ladies are thumbing through.

By: PollyKlein

PollyKlein — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:38:18 +0000

I used to eat food dumped by school kids who brought lunches to the city museum where I worked. They would throw out brown bags with fresh bananas and apples and boxes of grapes and wrapped energy bars and wrapped juice boxes their mothers had packed.
Sure you have to wash the fruit but it’s not sticky or gross, and you have to wash store-bought fruit as well.

By: minipaws

minipaws — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:51:58 +0000

Gross!