1.+Dumpster+Diving

On Dumpster Diving On Dumpster Diving, by Lars Eighner, is a how to guide of dumpster diving, and the correct way to find someone's trash as your treasure. When him and his dog, Lizbeth, spent all their money on the rent and has no money for everyday necessities, he turned to dumpsters to find his everyday needs. In his story, he concludes the correct way to dumpster dive, how to tell if the food is completely safe to eat and the cities of dumpster diving. Lars also finds personal items in the dumpsters, and guesses what kind of person threw it away, and what they went through while throwing it away. He speaks of the wealthy and how their wastefulness helps him find what he needs.

“I find from the experience of scavenging rather deep lessons. The first is to take what you can use and let the rest go by. I have come to think that there is no value in the abstract. A thing I cannot use or make useful, perhaps by trading, has no value however rare or fine it may be. I mean useful in a broad sense--some art I would find useful and some otherwise.” From dumpster diving Lars learned to be grateful for what he found, even if it was only in a dumpster and he had to go against normal society to receive it.

- How To Guide of Dumpster Diving - How to Find a good dumpster - How to know what food is safe to eat - Wealthy and their wastefulness - Stories behind the trash