What a waste!
Known as ‘urban foraging’, freegans find food in rubbish bins. A freegan collects this food to make a statement about our wasteful society. Tristam has eaten freegan food for 10 years and has never been ill. He told the BBC: ‘It’s just like going shopping; only you don’t have to queue. I do it a couple of times a week and get pretty much everything I need. What I’m trying to say is that it takes someone like me who can afford to buy this food, to get it out of the bin, to show that the food is perfectly okay to eat. You don’t have to be desperate to be eating it, and it shouldn’t be here in the first place’.
What’s on the menu tonight?
Ash and Ross are freegans living in London. They visit markets after closing time and the bins of supermarkets during the night. The amount of food that they find is astonishing. One evening they found 200 frozen chickens and an entire bin full of Brussels sprouts. What they don’t need, they share with others. All food found is washed before consumption.
For the uninitiated, Dumpster Diving groups have formed in London to encourage people to go out in groups. So it’s hello to late night rummaging and bye bye to grocery bills!
Nelly
May 2007
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