Tag: Dumpster Diving
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4 DIY Gifts for Gardeners You Can Make this Weekend
Gifting aint easy. Especially for gardeners who can be picky. Build them something they can use in the garden.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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Make Your Own Plant Tags From Discarded Fountain Drink Cups
Upcycle fountain drink cups into plant tags to label your seedlings and plants.
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Is It OK to Dumpster Dive for a Pot Luck?
An advice columnist explores what to do when someone brings food that was formerly trash to a family gathering.
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Family Gets 75% of Its Food from the Dumpster. Eats Incredibly Well. (Video)
People are too obsessed with cleanliness, says one dumpster diving father. His family eats mostly from the garden or the dumpster. And they've been putting on weight.
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Dumpster Diver Arrested & Handcuffed for Taking Food From Trash
Back in 2008 we heard about a man arrested for stealing waste grease to make biodiesel but as Kristin noted in her post about the freegan documentary Dive! The Film,
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How a Can Collector Died a Secret Millionaire
Curt Degerman was a man who kept to himself. Around the town in Sweden where he lived, he could be seen riding his bike or rummaging through trash bins, collecting bottles and cans to be recycled, and eating leftover scraps of food.
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Dive! the Film: Living Off America's Trash
You know you've thought about it. Whether you've actually done it or would admit to your friends that the food they are dining on was pulled from a dumpster is another matter. Either way, that scavenger-hunt for adults, known as dumpster diving, does
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Food to Energy Plants: A Load of Pig Swill?
We all know that waste food is a problem, but luckily there are plenty of solutions. Grocery stores are turning food waste into electricity, and Stockholm is even embracing garbage disposals to collect biogas. But is
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Car Hoods Reborn as Artful Coffee Tables
Image via The Weld House There was a golden age when the expansive hood of the American automobile could double as a picnic table. Thankfully, engine compartments have conformed to smaller motors and superior aerodynamics, but why give up the pleasure
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Secret Freegan is Dumpster Diving's Robin Hood
As Brian reported over at Planet Green, one out of eight Americans experiences food insecurity. At the same time there are insane levels of food waste. Enter Secret Freegan. Freegans love to scavenge for free stuff. Secret Freegan? Inspired by Oprah,
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DesignStories Wants to Tell Tales of Trash Becoming Treasures
A new Swedish design firm in the city of Gothenburg DesignStories is directly using waste products from the local second-hand organization Emmaus to create new and salable items, such as the comfy cushion stools pictured above, and cool tables with
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Dumpster Diving in Style
When artist Michel de Broin gets home from a hard day's pedalling in his Flinstonemobile, he can relax in style in his converted dumpster.
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Effect of Recession: Smelly Houses or Healthier Americans?
Paul Kedrosky thinks that US consumers live in smelly houses with fat pets, because according to a new Unilever study, they are cutting back on air fresheners but not on pet food.
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Taking Back the Streets: Dumpster Diving in Style
London designer Oliver Bishop-Young's work "focuses on skips [Britspeak for dumpsters] and looks at three main areas: exchange of waste materials, re-use of waste and making use of wasted spaces."
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Yoav Kotik's Recycling Between the Garbage and the Flowers
Exhibiting last Fall with Design Boom in Tokyo, Israel's Yoav Kotik is not afraid to try new things. From an industrial designer to working in the insurance industry, and now back to the world of Art, Kotik at 50, is now exhibiting his recycled flowers
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Take a Dive In a Virtual Dumpster
TreeHugger knows there's an art and a science to dumpster diving, and, even though one person's garbage can often be someone else's treasure, the idea of rooting through the trash isn't everyone's (free) cup of tea, even when there are things like
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Most Huggable: Dumpster Diving, Green Home Labels, Cellulosic Ethanol + More
Meet Daniel and Amanda Burt, a very normal couple who just happen to dumpster dive.
