By: Jocelyn Schwalm Imagine not having to, but wanting to, jump into a dumpster for your food supply. Or consider willfully going a year without showering. For Rob Greenfield, these are just some of the lengths the social activist boldly…
These Dumpster Diving Artists built floating sculptures and sailed them from Slovenia to Venice
All Photos by: Tod Seelie If the love and drug-fueled hippies of the ’70s were ever born again and decided to relive the river-running adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this certainly would have been it. Brooklyn-based street artist, SWOON, and her…
Marie is a middle-class New Yorker who spends less than $5,000 a year by dumpster diving
Bright lights, tall buildings and a constant flow of excitement— at some point or another most people have dreamt of living in the Big Apple. Like Jay Z and Alicia Keys said, it’s where dreams are made and there’s nothing…
Meet the chef whose restaurant uses discarded food to feed the homeless instead of landfills
BY: MATTHEW CHIN One third of the food produced in the world is wasted, amounting to approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of waste stuffing landfills every year. In addition, 13.5 per cent—or 805 million people in the world—don’t have enough food and…
How to make $250,000 a year from dumpster diving
BY: MATTHEW MCGLOUGHLIN It started nine years ago while digging through a corporate client’s garbage. While looking for information that could cultivate a cyber attack—and finding plenty of it—Matt Malone got curious. Taking a peek inside the dumpster behind OfficeMax,…