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E-Prince"I tell people I eat from the trash, and they think I’m crazy,” Alex Barnard ’09 said.
Barnard follows the principles of freeganism. Inspired by the term veganism, this philosophy focuses on “alternative strategies for living based on limited ...
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Can i have your meal card in exchange for free once a week access to my garbage? Last night, I had shrimp! Who knows, next week I might even throw away some thawed out beef! Surf and turf! Just stay the hell away from whatever bathroom I plan on using.
Might be time to take logic.
dig it. if you live in a well-to-do area, there is almost no end to
the resources that are available if you choose to do even minimal
salvage of goods.
Under the premise that dumpster-diving makes logical sense: once many people start harvesting garbage, stores will realize that they can sell the food they currently throw out (albeit at a heavy discount) and make more profit. Capitalism still wins.
yeah, sanity, but then it doesn't get wasted, which means the planet has less trash and either less wasted energy to produce extra food or more net food produced with the same energy, some of which can feed starving people.