| Dumpster Diving is when people go through | | | | household goods in an effort to make room for new |
| commercial or residential garbage and waste to | | | | things. When 'dumpster divers' find such materials in |
| obtain and use food and other materials that may be | | | | the trash, they will collect them, wash them and |
| beneficial to them. This type of waste isn't the usual | | | | distribute them to people who can't afford to buy |
| Wax Packaging, Seafood Packaging or Poultry Boxes. | | | | for themselves. An old work blouse may be trash to |
| Instead it's food, clothing, furniture and other things | | | | one woman while being new work clothes for |
| that can either be used, recycled or sold for a profit | | | | another. It's this type of recycling that benefits |
| to benefit people in need. There are many dumpster | | | | people in need and gives them an opportunity to |
| diving organizations that perform this practice to help | | | | have new things to wear. Also furniture finds are |
| the homeless people in their neighborhoods. What | | | | often donated to people who are just starting out in |
| some people and companies consider to be garbage, | | | | new homes or apartments. Dumpster divers help an |
| dumpster divers turn it into profitable and substantial | | | | old table and chairs find its way from a garbage can |
| good for people in need. | | | | into someone else's kitchen. Again, this provides |
| Many restaurants and grocery stores have to, by | | | | needy people with things they otherwise couldn't |
| law, get rid of food after the established expiration | | | | afford. |
| date. This includes fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, | | | | Some dumpster divers will take miscellaneous things |
| cheeses and packaged goods. Many times these | | | | they find in the trash and make unique pieces of art |
| items are still good, fresh and tasty. For instance, | | | | out of them. They then sell this artwork to raise |
| there was a grocer in a major city whose General | | | | money that's donated to homeless people. For |
| Mills cereal had a flaw in the cereal box. They had to | | | | instance, there is a man who is part of a dumpster |
| dispose of almost 100 containers of cereal that had | | | | diving organization in Philadelphia who searches for |
| never been opened and was a fresh as can be. | | | | stuff to make lamps. His lamps are one of a kind |
| People retrieved this product from the dumpsters | | | | pieces of art that sell for thousands of dollars. While |
| and took it to a nearby homeless shelter. This food | | | | his investment is only his time in finding the objects |
| fed over 800 homeless people breakfast. What is | | | | and the creation of the lamp, he is able to raise |
| considered to be waste in this case proved to be | | | | incredible amounts of money for homeless people. |
| extremely helpful for many people in need of food. | | | | This type of recycling allows one man to give back |
| Many people when they move from one home to | | | | by being creative yet not having to dip into his own |
| another will dispose of clothing, furniture and other | | | | wallet. |