Dive with Pride

Dumpster diving. It sounds slimy. It sounds “beneath” you, doesn’t it? Then becoming part of the solution is “beneath” you. Fighting rampant consumption is “beneath” you. Contributing to food waste and energy waste is what you stand for.

We’re amidst an apparent energy crisis and we use tons of limited fuel and engergy to burn GOOD food. Millions of people are diving from starvation and we burn food. Perfectly good, clean food. That’s right. Most food tossed out by restaurants land in clean bins are remain quite edible right up until it’s wasted and burned.

Now THAT makes me sick.

Here are some people though that are refusing to contribute to the gross waste. They had the novel idea of eating the food. Imagine that!

“Skipping Waste” is a documentary about dumpster diving created in 2009 by Lily Barlow. It was shot in France and the Netherlands. The movie is distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons ShareAlike NonCommercial Attribution license.

Monopolized supermarkets chains dominate food sales. Bananas from Columbia and avocados from Brazil fill food baskets of European consumers throughout winter-time. These and other unsustainable consumer habits lead to a well of waste, burned oil and overflowed landfills. Desperately seeking an alternative, dumpster divers take to the streets, feeding themselves and those hundreds in need with dumpstered food. “Skipping Waste” follows these communities through France and the Netherlands as they recoup and reuse what a capitalist society deemed as trash.

Skipping Waste from mirco on Vimeo.

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This entry was posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 6:38 am. It is filed under activism, alternative, France, Inspirational, Musings, sustainable. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.