Dumpster

In his article on Dumpster Diving, Lars Eigner, was trying to make people aware of the usefulness of the items that were so often discarded as garbage. For example, you may have an old pair of shoes that you no longer wear because you have so many. You don’t see a need for them any more so you toss them in the trash. Someone who dumpster dives finds the same shoes and can see the usefulness in them. We often take things for granted because they are so easily replaceable. Dumpster diving is the…

life not of anything we would expect. In the reading, Lars Eighner discusses in great details what he discovers while dumpster diving. He speaks about the mental stages of dumpster diving, and explains how most of the food he finds is either thrown away, past the expiration date, or is still edible. Aside from food, he also describes the emotional impact that living out of a dumpster can have on a person. When reading this story, It teaches me that from all of the pleasant things in life I take…

In the essay On Dumpster Diving, Lars Feighner sheds his opinion on college students based on his experience “scavenging” through college dumpsters. Feighner communicates the unawareness of the students due to their careleness, ignorance, and wastefulness. Undeniably Feighner without the thoughtless students, would have a more difficult time in sustaining his life. College students are careless, with their waste, due to this Divers such as feighner are able to meet needs of survival. With the…

from the University of Texas-Austin. Some of his articles were published in magazines like Threepenny Review, the Guide, and Inches. Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 when he left his job as an attendant at a mental hospital. Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving” (627) explains how our society is becoming a throwaway society, and how people throw away a lot of perfectly useful stuff. Our society has the huge problem of not taking advantage and not benefitting from the dumps wasting with a…

paragraphs affects the tone of his essay. He is informative and explains to the reader that he prefers “the word scavenging and use the word scrounging,” rather than “foraging,” or “Dumpster diving” (713). This appeals to ethos because Eighner is trying to convince the audience by introducing himself as a scavenger during his dumpster diving life. He constantly reminds the audience that he is a scavenger because he considers himself as a person who looks for discarded material. By describing…

There are roughly 2,013,444,321,000 germs on just the lid of a city dumpster, with diseases such as the common cold, Listeria, Salmonella, and E. Coli. Knowing this there are still many people who go through what other people throw away. Some people collect cans to redeem them for nickels, others use it to get everything they need to survive. Lars Eighner started dumpster diving right before he became homeless. Ethos should be part of every form of writing. Ethos is how the author establishes…

and discounts in order to save some money but still be able to buy a gift for their loved ones. But there is a new trend in New York City called Dumpster Diving that may solve a lot of New Yorkers’ problems. New York reportedly houses wealthy college students in its various schools and universities. And they are considered to be the source of Dumpster Divers’ holiday shopping. College students have been spotted throwing away their smart phones, laptops and even cameras as they get ready to…

Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving”, Eighner writes to the general middle and upper class American about the day to day life of an average Dumpster Diver. Written in an almost how to guide format, Eigner shows the reader that the average diver not only can find interesting items in the garbage, but also make a living off of it by finding food that is safe to eat. Written throughout by Eigner, However, is a counter argument that goes to show just how wrong the normal stereotypes of a Dumpster…

In the film Dive!, Jeremy Seifert brings awareness about the amount of food waste in America by filming his lifestyle choice to dumpster dive. Jeremy Seifert both protagonist and director, along with his family and friends explain why they choose to dumpster dive. Not only do they discuss their lifestyle choices, they also try to have grocery stores and food banks work together to combat hunger. This film had good intentions to bring awareness to the amount of food waste there is in America;…

To begin with, Jensen argues “would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery?”. Dumpster diving may not have stopped Hitler, but by getting a mass to recycle with dumpster diving you can change the mindset of people and enact huge change by influencing lawmakers. Composting did not end slavery, but Harriet Tubman, an individual, saved more than 70 black people while making a big impact in the abolition of slavery. Jensen…