Dumpster Finds

Dumpster Diving and being safe. This dumpster find was submitted by Connie Bittfield. Thanks so much for sharing what you found!

How Alpine is Keeping Colorado Green! This dumpster find was submitted by JDA. Thanks so much for sharing what you found!

Avocados are amazing. The possibilities are endless: guacamole, sushi, sandwiches and more. So when my friend Greg told me a story of how he once salvaged 40 ripe avocados from a dumpster, I was dumbfounded. I needed to see this wanton waste with my own eyes. I asked Greg to take me along on one […]

Amanda Holden has revealed how she managed to save $30,000 in thirteen months by eating her co-workers rubbish. Amanda Holden, 32, from Portland, Oregon, was able to quit her finance job and travel for a year by feasting on the leftovers of her bemused coworkers who nicked named her Dumpster Dog. While dieting on scraps, […]

We looked up minnesingers: “Any of certain German poet-musicians of the 12th and 13th centuries.” They were big on courtly love, and were mostly members of the minor nobility just singing away and looking for patronage. The dumpster, we should note, was not invented until the 1930s. Walther von der Vogelweide was a celebrated Middle […]

Preventing food waste is good, but not to the point of dumpster-diving for deer brains at a wild game butcher. The former owners of a Chinese restaurant in Pennsylvania are accused of dealing in illegal deer meat, at least some of which came from the trash at butchers that process deer for hunters. This dumpster […]