Dumpster diving
Sep. 22nd, 2011 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdl1525Eighner begins by telling us a little bit about how he had always had an interest in dumpsters and even gave us the history of the word. He says “it is a proprietary word belonging to the Dempster Dumpster company” revealing to us even before he had began scavenging as he likes to call it, he had done research about dumpsters. Eighner goes on telling us how he began dumpster diving and we quickly begin to realize he is not ashamed of it and actually takes a kind of pride in what he does. He speaks to us in a very formal way almost as if he were giving a presentation or was a teacher in front of a class room. It almost feels as though you are reading a how to book on dumpster diving.
Eighner is trying to reach people of any age and background. His audience is people that have no experience living on the streets; People that may be disgusted by the thought of getting food and necessities of life from dumpsters. He’s mostly trying to reach the more wealthy members of our society who look down on those who are scavengers.
The purpose is to try to give people incite on how wasteful our society has become. So many of us throw out perfectly good things everyday such as food and clothes without even thinking about it. We sometimes forget how fortunate we are to be able to go out and buy whatever we need for everyday life. Some of us can go out and purchase so much stuff, that we throw things out that could have still been used by those who are in need. He makes a point about college students who return home for reading breaks and will throw out perfectly good food and condiments because they feel it’ll go bad before they return. This is especially true for the students that are still living off of their parent’s dollar; they have no concern about buying more food when they return and would rather not take a chance on food that may go bad. These students are wasteful out of ignorance and carelessness and because for so many of them its daddy’s money they are more careless and have no concerns about where there next meal comes from.
Eighner talks about what he has learned from dumpster diving, most important what is safe to eat. He explains “eating safely from the dumpsters involves three principals using the senses and common sense to evaluate the condition of the found materials, knowing the dumpsters of a given area and checking them regularly, and seeking to always to find the answer to the question why was this discarded”. He makes it quite clear to us that he looks at Dumster diving almost like a career. Hes trying to minimize his consumption on the world by reusing other peoples trash. He feels in the end it is the scavengers who are going to get the last laugh and maybe he is right?
Eighner is trying to reach people of any age and background. His audience is people that have no experience living on the streets; People that may be disgusted by the thought of getting food and necessities of life from dumpsters. He’s mostly trying to reach the more wealthy members of our society who look down on those who are scavengers.
The purpose is to try to give people incite on how wasteful our society has become. So many of us throw out perfectly good things everyday such as food and clothes without even thinking about it. We sometimes forget how fortunate we are to be able to go out and buy whatever we need for everyday life. Some of us can go out and purchase so much stuff, that we throw things out that could have still been used by those who are in need. He makes a point about college students who return home for reading breaks and will throw out perfectly good food and condiments because they feel it’ll go bad before they return. This is especially true for the students that are still living off of their parent’s dollar; they have no concern about buying more food when they return and would rather not take a chance on food that may go bad. These students are wasteful out of ignorance and carelessness and because for so many of them its daddy’s money they are more careless and have no concerns about where there next meal comes from.
Eighner talks about what he has learned from dumpster diving, most important what is safe to eat. He explains “eating safely from the dumpsters involves three principals using the senses and common sense to evaluate the condition of the found materials, knowing the dumpsters of a given area and checking them regularly, and seeking to always to find the answer to the question why was this discarded”. He makes it quite clear to us that he looks at Dumster diving almost like a career. Hes trying to minimize his consumption on the world by reusing other peoples trash. He feels in the end it is the scavengers who are going to get the last laugh and maybe he is right?
