[ExI] News Flash!

[Tara Maya]

That's very enterprising of the Dumpster Middlemen.  :)

We have some dumpster divers in my new neighborhood, but they aren't necessarily homeless. One of the guys who regularly picks out cans and other recycle from everyone's trash actually owns an entire apartment building.  Weekly, he just happens to scrounge for recycle. Given his age (???) and country of origin, I would say that either he or his parents have lived through a Communist famine, so he's taking no chances.

Once, I dared to give away a bag full of cans to that man, and was chided by my own mother in law for wasting the money we could have earned from that--worth an entire lunch! She's from the same country.... The lesson runs deep.

Tara Maya


> On Nov 15, 2022, at 9:59 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Tara a long time ago (in our galaxy but still a long time ago) I walked past a grocery store dumpster and saw them discarding dented and past sell-by cans.  They would rip the labels off so there was no knowing what it was.  I thought that a terrible waste of unidentified food, so I jumped in there and liberated a few of these discards.  There was nothing at all wrong with the food.  
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> I returned the next day, ready to repeat but the two guys who lived there politely informed me that this is their dumpster and their homeless.  So anyone jumping in there is committing the equivalent of breaking into their homeless.  But they, feeling the need, would sell me cans, 10 cents for the standard #2s, 25 cents for the quart cans

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