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Freegans Forage for Food, Eschew Capitalism and Loathe Waste

BY NIRVI SHAH AND SIVAN FRASIER Shoulder-deep in a Coral Springs commercial trash bin, Brian Sprinkle was feeling hot and sweaty — and lucky. Dented boxes of spaghetti and containers of croissants, plus potatoes, onions, …

Meet New York’s Freegans who enjoy the world’s cheapest barbecues with food salvaged entirely from dustbins.

These are New York’s Freegans who enjoy the world’s cheapest barbecues, having scavenged their food solely from dustbins. Freeganism, which began in the mid-1990s, is an anti-consumerist lifestyle where people employ alternative living strategies – …