Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner called himself a scavenger‚ rather than someone who simply picked everything and anything out of the dumpster.. As his savings started running out‚ he had to use his intermittent income to cover his rent and depend on the dumpsters for his other necessities including food‚ toilet paper‚ medicine‚ books‚ furnishings‚ etc. Along with his dog ‚Lizbeth ‚ he would rummage through the dumpsters to find these items. Although he would rather spend a "comfortable consumer life
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answer the question‚ “Why was this discarded?” Narrator advises to avoid such foods as game‚ poultry‚ pork‚ and egg-based meals. Soft drinks testing should be based on their fizzing vigorously. Being a scavenger‚ one has to notice the least signs of visible contaminates. Notwithstanding the scavenger has no indemnity of self- intoxication. Later on Lars tells about “a predictable series of stages a person goes through in learning to scavenge‚” in which disgust at the beginning gives way to indiscriminate
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Summary: In Lars Eighner’s short essay “On Dumpster Diving”‚ he describes his experience of being homeless and the art of dumpster driving. Eighner prefers being referred to as a scavenger rather than a dumpster driver. Eighner stated “I like the frankness of the word scavenging. I live from refuse of others. I am a scavenger.” (383) He describes scavenging as a full time job‚ that requires a lot of effort. He believes that if one follows certain guidelines and rules‚ with doing so this could possibly
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for something like berries and nuts‚ and scavenging‚ what dumpster diving really is‚ as opposed to foraging. He explains to us‚ "What is safe to eat‚" the different stages of a scavenger‚ how careless can scroungers can be‚ some of the types of personal information found in Dumpsters‚ and the lessons he learned as a Scavenger. Eighner had several experiences while Diving for food. One of those was learning how to tell what was safe to eat and what wasn’t. He informed us that‚ "eating from a dumpster
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lot of respect towards others‚ he does not scavenger individual garbage cans. “My strongest reservation about going through individual garbage cans is that this seems to me a very personal kind of invasion” He puts himself in household owner’s shoes and thinks from their point of view (Eighner 169). He believes in being fair to others and that is the reason he dislikes can scroungers. “ There are precious few courtesies among scavengers” If a scavenger finds something he/she cannot carry or does
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was able to add an additional 150 php to the meager income of 300 php a day that her husband is able to provide as a construction worker. After six months‚ her whole family decided to live in the dumpsite where her husband also decided to become a scavenger due to the hardship of finding a decent paying job. When the garbage-slide occurred in 2000‚ the Macasusi family lost their source of income. Moreover with the biogas that was emanating around the area causing unannounced fires‚ the family decided
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were done using them. Lars Eighner says‚ “Although I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life‚ perhaps — and only perhaps —as a slightly less wasteful consumer owing to what I have learned as a scavenger (par. 4). Mr. Eighner describes himself as an experienced scavenger. He knows many methods of evaluating food to check the quality of it. He has mentioned three principles of eating safely from the Dumpsters: using the senses and common sense to evaluate the condition of the found
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American consumer life is more comfortable than the life of a scavenger. "Although‚ if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life‚ perhaps-- and only perhaps-- as a slightly less wasteful consumer owing to what I have learned as a scavenger."‚ the author states. The American economic system is disproportionate and flawed‚ but Eighner does not complain about his homeless life. He enjoyed the pursuit as a scavenger and viewed it as a form of self-reliance that is lost in modern
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when she was still a scavenger. It was sometime in 1999 when she was only able to earn sixteen pesos a day as she thought that she could only collect utensils and plastic cups. A month in the trade‚ however‚ she was able to add an additional 150 php to the meager income of 300 php a day that her husband is able to provide as a construction worker. After six months‚ her whole family decided to live in the dumpsite. Furthermore‚ her husband also decided to become a scavenger around this time as he
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Gina Mansour English 111 1/24/2013 The Norton Reader Answers from On Dumpster Diving (pg. 28) 1. Eighner organizes his essay by breaking down how and why scavengers do what they do to survive. He begins his essay with how he became a scavenger and follows that with how to scavenge the best‚ safest way possible. He communicates how to choose the right dumpsters to dive into‚ how to determine if food is edible‚ and whether items are worth holding onto. I believe Eighner chose this type of
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