dumpster diving
Pg 714 comp q’s
1. Dumpster diving to me means going to any public dumpster, hopping inside and scavenging for food or any other necessity the scrounger may need.
2. Eighner’s answers to the question as to “Why was this discarded?” goes to line 8 where he gives an example about how people throw out food once it has gone bad or they trust the expiration date. He also throws a sarcastic comment about how people have a “regular supply of groceries” which he implies that many people are just simply wasteful of food. I think food is thrown out mainly because it had been sitting in the pantry or fridge for too long and if it hadn’t been used it a while then there would have been no purpose for it in the future. At least that is how it is done in my house, however canned foods stay for a long time and the action of throwing canned food out is questionable to me because they are meant to last for a long time.
3. Eighner typically stays away from any game kind of food. For example: poultry, pork and egg based foods. It doesn’t matter whether he finds them raw or cooked he does not try to tamper with it because he does not have the luxury of cooking his finds and decontaminating food from salmonella or any other harmful sicknesses. He also stays away from ethnic foods because he is unfamiliar with when the food is in good condition or bad condition.
4. The drawbacks that Eighner talks about in paragraph thirty is the unsanitary and nasty smell of dumpsters in the hot summer weather. In the next paragraphs he talks about how at first divers are ashamed to do the things they do and are unskilled in the ways of telling what is good and what isn’t. But the drawbacks continue as he gains confidence and happiness in dumpster diving; so much that he “may become lost and never recover”. Additional drawbacks that I can think of is the constant comparison of other people and how they are wasteful and constantly on the lookout for repairable items or goods that are meaningless.
1. Dumpster diving to me means going to any public dumpster, hopping inside and scavenging for food or any other necessity the scrounger may need.
2. Eighner’s answers to the question as to “Why was this discarded?” goes to line 8 where he gives an example about how people throw out food once it has gone bad or they trust the expiration date. He also throws a sarcastic comment about how people have a “regular supply of groceries” which he implies that many people are just simply wasteful of food. I think food is thrown out mainly because it had been sitting in the pantry or fridge for too long and if it hadn’t been used it a while then there would have been no purpose for it in the future. At least that is how it is done in my house, however canned foods stay for a long time and the action of throwing canned food out is questionable to me because they are meant to last for a long time.
3. Eighner typically stays away from any game kind of food. For example: poultry, pork and egg based foods. It doesn’t matter whether he finds them raw or cooked he does not try to tamper with it because he does not have the luxury of cooking his finds and decontaminating food from salmonella or any other harmful sicknesses. He also stays away from ethnic foods because he is unfamiliar with when the food is in good condition or bad condition.
4. The drawbacks that Eighner talks about in paragraph thirty is the unsanitary and nasty smell of dumpsters in the hot summer weather. In the next paragraphs he talks about how at first divers are ashamed to do the things they do and are unskilled in the ways of telling what is good and what isn’t. But the drawbacks continue as he gains confidence and happiness in dumpster diving; so much that he “may become lost and never recover”. Additional drawbacks that I can think of is the constant comparison of other people and how they are wasteful and constantly on the lookout for repairable items or goods that are meaningless.