Word: dumpster
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...Greeney took issue when a recent story in The Boston Globe called her a “freegan,” a term that has been used to describe an anti-consumerist lifestyle that includes tactics like “dumpster diving” and squatting...
Greeney said that most of the food worth salvaging is put into the dumpster last, so they only open a few bags on top before moving on to the next store. A good 45-minute trip will yield a duffle bag of pastries that the four of them can hardly finish in a week...
...lifestyle, referred to by its practitioners as “dumpstering”—not to be confused with “dumpster-diving”—involves scavenging grocery store dumpsters after hours for food that is still packaged and edible, Greeney explains. She and her housemates, who jokingly call themselves the “Hippo Commune,” mostly collect pies, tarts, cakes, and bread from trash bags they find at the top of dumpsters...
...never been in a dumpster,” she said. “I’m a little bit scared and nervous about...
...interested in saving the whales, but I’m interested in people,” she said, “and would probably not dumpster if I stopped living with my current housemates...