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Mongo, Freegan and Dumpster Dive: Continuing The Life Cycle of Junk

Posted on October 07, 2008

Fellow sustainablogger Robin Shreeves recently wrote a great and helpful post Your Trash Just Doesn't Disappear, Stupid! (Or How To Make Sure Useful Things Stay Out of Landfills) that touches on a bit of a phenomenon that piques my interest: mongoing, freeganism, dumpster diving.The term dumpster diving probably conjures certain derogatory images: bums, lowlife dregs of society sifting through mostly rotten morsels of discarded food for sustenance. Pushing aside such an unfortunate view of human beings living, hopefully only temporarily, in such unfortunate circumstances, l...

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