Dumpster Dive

How to dumpster dive? This is a thread which should guide people to get their free food,which is thrown away by big discounters. What to do? Share tips, books,blogs or experience to others, share your knowledge,share the knowledge of others

It's not food, but if you're near a major university, dumpster diving there when the semester ends is very effective. Look into when the move out dates for the dorms and nearby apartment complexes that focus on student living. With luck, you'll find a few laptops. Keep an eye out for textbooks. Many college bookstores have buyback programs and will sometimes pay good money fast for the textbook. There are groups you can find to sell it directly to students when the next semester starts, too, if time isn't a factor.

>>9620 this book has some relevant information for ya

>>9623 Almost nothing in that book holds up today, even waste disposal has changed in half a century. I'd still recommend it because it stimulates unorthodox, outside all boxes problem solving and making maximum use of what's just lying around everywhere.

>>9622 How can you check the move out dates?

>>9625 For the dorms, it will be posted on the university's website. Check whatever pages they have related to housing. If you can't find it, you can email the college's housing department. Most of them have one single move out date for all the student residents, but it might vary slightly by each dorm building. For nearby apartment complexes, you want to find one that caters specifically to students. Unlike regular apartment complexes, because these are catering to students, they usually only start and end leases around a month before the start of the school year and tend to have one big move-out date because of it. If it's not on their website, you can call to ask.

You dont need to go through dumpsters for free food. You just have to catch them before it's thrown out. Some people are totally fine giving it to you. As for dumpster diving you should know your local laws so you know how to skirt around them and when to try to avoid being caught.

I used to work at a grocery chain that threw out massive amounts of food daily. It was a relatively small location that didn't have a trash compactor, and our dumpster wasn't secured by any means either. I would frequently double back after work for big hauls of barely expired meat and other goods, but the timing didn't always work out well and tons of it still wound up going to waste. Timing is everything when it comes to securing fresh trash at peak quality. I wasn't as tech-pilled then, but methinks it would be prudent for lains working under similar circumstances to set up some kind of anonymous network of dumpsters, complete with schedules and live updates regarding what gets disposed of and when. I'd have loved to call such a service TRASH.NET, but sadly the domain is taken.

>>9891 Another idea I had was using some kind of motion activated SBC to get a general sense for when trash is thrown out throughout the day. I think there's enough clearance under most dumpsters to covertly hide a device that size. Just gotta make sure you retrieve it before the garbage trucks make their rounds.

>>9620 I've had good luck diving in uni ewaste dumpsters, lots of fun physics and electronics stuff, and high end consumer electronics of all ages (new to ancient) The following are good resources: https://dumpstermap.org https://trashwiki.org

I found a supermarket dumpster not far off my usual route home from work that's almost always stuffed with recently expired and slightly blemished foods. I've only been twice and already I've found a full case of beer, many prepackaged trays of beef and susage products, and many different kinds of produce. Everything was settled on top of the dumpster and the weather's been nice and cold lately. I'm still a bit wary on the meat products though. Does any Lain out there know if thorough cooking will eliminate all the bacteria introduced through possible prolonged exposure to middling temperatures?

>>9928 It's not just bacteria, it's their excreta that adds unpleasant flavour and makes item poisonous. Anything sealed, cured, preserved and diligently stored at specified temperatures, like salami or bacon for example does not expire into pumpkin on it's best before date, but regular refrigerated supermarket meats in styrofoam tray most likely do.

There's some more current information in these books. Stealthiswiki used to have good information, but it is no longer updated.

>>9940 Libgen has OCR version of 1993 edition. https://annas-archive.org/md5/7855e147930f664eca7bf5783f9e0952

>>9929 Thanks for the heads up. I've actually been eating nothing but dumpster dived food for the last week and a half, meat and dairy products included, and have felt perfectly fine. As long as you can freeze the meat within a reasonable time frame and it hasn't passed it's expiry date I wouldn't sweat it too much personally.

>>9960 Another update after nearly a month of consuming nothing but dumpstered goods. I've managed to enjoy a varied diet consisting of all the staple food gorups. My pantry is now chock full of peanut butter, canned yams, pasta, and snack foods of all kinds. Freezer/fridge are full to bursting as well, and honestly I've hit a point where I pass on allot of the stuff I find simply because there's no place to store it. One way I've been addressing this issue is through food preservation. So far I've made my own homemade beef jerky and lime pickled onions. I'm also thinking of getting a chest freezer to incrase the overall size of my hoard. My personal savings have also benefitted from all these freely acquired goods. All the money I would have spent on groceries instead gets invested into soykafcoi-, I mean a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds. I also made a few extra bucks selling lightly damaged consumer goods to co-workers. All-in-all life has never been better. Future prospects include the chest freezer, as well as finding a way to crack all the locked dumpsters in my neighborhood. I've been going through some of the lockpicking books in the PDF thread and just need to figure out where I can get the necessary implements without having my name added to a federal list of some kind.

>>10091 >>9960 >>9642 If you live somewhere rich enough to throw away a ton of edible food then you probably live somewhere with charities that will give you edible food that hasn't been in the dumpster. Is there a reason you choose to dumpster dive for food instead of getting it from charities?

>>10092 Dumpster gives you food on demand without need to pass humiliation of social interaction hoops with bureaucrats and being registered in some government database as designated poor which implies background checks of your income, bank accounts and possessions. My opinion as third worldler of course. Here you can get thin broth every second church holiday or something, Standing in line with hobos, so really not worth it neither nutrition, nor experience-wise.

>>10092 isn't it just cutting out the middle man? also they're talking about stocks, if they have money to spend on gambling maybe they don't qualify

>>10122 >>10121 I don't know about anywhere else, but here you can go to food pantries without any ID. They're not usually ran by the government like food stamps are. They're ran by charities, universities, churches, hippies, and the like. >>10092 Not them but many people do it to reduce food waste. Damaged or expired food usually isn't sold in stores or given out at food pantries or soup kitchens because of legal concerns even though most food is still fine to eat after it's "best by" date, so it becomes waste unless someone like OP rescues it. It might also just not be practical to get to food banks. There might just not be one nearby.

bakeries also frequently hand out free or heavily discounted bread when they're about to close for the day. swing by a few, maybe buy something cheap as soykaf, andthey'll throw in a dozen more just for kicks. man doesn'tlive on bread alone, but its a practical source of calories. (sage for offtopic)

>>10122 It's mostly just convenience in my case, as the dumpster I frequent is only a few minutes off the beaten path of my regular commute. It's true that there are allot of suppliers of free pantry items in my city, but they're all spread out pretty far from one another. I also have a hunch that the quantity and sheer variety of the stuff I find beats whatever pittance the government funded organizations might be handing out. The thrills are cheap and plentiful too, which I also quite like.

Ive lived in several american cities and biked in every one of them. biking can be pretty fun in definitly more than one city, but I think you have to be careful about it; choose good routes and times, and have the right attitude.

>>9891 Your trash.net idea reminds me of this website: https://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page My city's page haven't been updated for year tho, and I'd rather keep the good spots for me and my friends

>>10092 Some collectives do dumpster dive and then share what they found, one is not exclusive to the other

>>10092 >If you live somewhere rich enough to throw away a ton of edible food Literally anywhere in the developed world with a sizeable community does this. Of course you can't always access the dumpsters when there are locks, gates and security guards but the amount of food wasted by our system is an embarrassment. As for those charities, no shame to anyone who goes to them but why not leave them for families and seniors who need them more? There is a crisis around here because in the last few years the donations to food banks decreased while the households depending on them increased. In a short period of time, a bunch of local people went from being donors to being clients.

>>10185 >one is not exclusive to the other One is clearly superior and one is clearly redundant. Was his point. >>10092 They are larping.

>>10188 No, I think the people in the thread are talking from experience. You are possibly making the mistake of conflating activities with economic class, as in only destitute people live off of trash and these people aren't that poor. If that's what your angle is by the way then you make another mistake in thinking poor people and homeless bums are out dumpster diving. For the most part they aren't. They are living off the charities and government services mentioned, or are panhandling.

>>10189 >You are possibly making the mistake of conflating activities with economic class No I fully believe you are a white middle class brat who thinks this soykaf is "cool" and did it once with your buddies because fuarrrk capitalism or something. It's still larping.

>>10190 So find another thread? Why do idiots on this site constantly try to derail topics they have no interest in? You completely misunderstood everything in that post by the way (surprise).

>>10191 >Why do idiots on this site constantly try to derail topics they have no interest in? I think the dude above made a good point. If you live in a society affluent enough to throw away food you live in a society affluent enough to give away food to charity. >dumpster diving is not about being poor!!!!!11 Ok so you're just doing it for fun? How is that not larping then.

>>10192 It's about free stuff, and yes it's also fun. You like to drink Mountain Dew and jerk off to hentai while we like to go outside at night and look around. Simple enough? There are people who need those charities mentioned more than I do. Every point you keep bringing up has already been addressed.

>>10193 >It's about free stuff, and yes it's also fun. I get it. There's a subprocess in human brains dating from when we were hunter-gathers which squirts out dopamine when we find something cool.

>>10192 You don' t have to be dirt poor to dumpster dive. It can allow you to save money and spend less time working without going to charities that aren't for you. And yes, it's a fun game. I'm not poor, not rich either and going home with 8 pizzas and two bottles of wine feels like christmas >>10194 this