A Shout Out To Eating Garbage: Dumpster Diving on CBC

A CBC news team followed along on a dumpster diving run with me and a friend.

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• environment
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• laryn
• ryan
• consumption
• consumerism
• culture
• trash
• garbage
• eating
• dive
• freegan

[dLimboStick]

ZOMFG!!! Humans using their brains to tell whether food is edible, rather than depending on someone else's arbitrary sell-by date. THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING!!!!!

[garycalgary]

my freind worked at a tim hortons restaurant and when the restaurant is owned by an owner they can give away excess doughnuts if people ask for free after a certain amount of time.

When the restaurant is owned by the chain staff are under strict instructions to toss and stomp it in the garbage.

These are not dumpsterdivers these are heroes.

[jamstrings100]

Is it really safe to pick food from the dumpster. I am WAY too much of a germaphobe I think to do this.

[americancarguy]

I can't imagine doing that, as someone that works in a store, the stuff that is still good but is past its sell by date/quality standers dose get donated to the food bank, its the stuff that risky that gets thrown out to prevent people from eating it and getting sick.

[Veilside1000HP]

I don't get it, why can't supermarkets just give these items to a fertilizer producer, I am sure they would gladly pick it up for free. Eating out of garbage is quite dangerous because you don't know what is rotten and what is not.

[nieltuttle1]

I just went to my local albersons and they were throwing away 10hot rotisserie chickens and aprox 10 buckets of fried chicken @ 8:30pm on sun nite... insane!

[RubberWilbur]

It really is not being environmentally conscious or economic conscious to dumpster dive for food. The chances that you could get sick and even deathly sick goes up every time your rummage through people's trash. The medication and treatment to overcome that sickness far outweigh the savings to the economy and to wallet in the long run. Penny wise pound....well you understand what I'm talking about. You'd be better off spending your time working or handing out clean sandwhiches to the homeless.

[moulton1048]

now we cant do it anymore because we tried to help some people in need and somebody took advantage of it! pretty sad for all the other homeless people who depended on the food each day. It was a good way to reduce on the wasted food and help local people in are community its really to bad we had to go back to throwing it out though because of one selfish person who wanted an easy way to make some cash!

[moulton1048]

I work at a grocery store and in the dairy department anything that is gunna be bad 2 days from the current date gets tossed so something that is dated BEST BEFORE JUNE 29th will get thrown away on JUNE 27th its dumb! 2 huge grocery bags of perfectly fine donuts, bread, baggels, and croissants get thrown out from the bakery each day and tons and tons of produce as well! Its crazy how much food gets thrown away makes me sick! We used to give it to the salvation army until somebody tried sueing us

[RetroCaptain]

@backbitting1

Good day

Not really.

Some private stores offer the "expired" food to shelters for years, until SOME ppl (using the shelters) COMPLAINED! (This bread is hard,..this fruit is soft, etc)

You know what follows the complaints....(it goes along with "biting the hand" that "literally" feeds you)...

The owners are AFRAID of being possibly sued if someone .."happens" to get sick after eating their offerings.

[backbitting1]

i thought all grocery chains had a partnership with food banks and homeless shelters?

doesnt it make sense to give expired goods to the poor?

[VANYO21]

@MashAshAsh Not really. When you have to burn gas , use electricity ,water and spent your time, and than finally share the cooked food with others. This is more than just personal gain.