Dumpster diving refers to the practice of getting/diving for food and non food items from dumpsters. Dumpsters, in my opinion is an American term for the huge metal garbage container strategically located in supermarkets and some parts of the cities.
We stayed two nights free camping in a mall parking lot in La Garde, France. Our parking spot was beside a supermarket and across from McDonalds for its free wifi. On our second morning, my husband noticed a man checking out the garbage bins obviously looking for something. So we thought he was looking for food scraps from McDonalds customers. About an hour later, another man came and did the same. A half hour later, two women came and also inspected the garbage bins. All of them left empty handed.
Around noon, a supermarket staff moved the bin closer to the back door of the building and filled it with all kinds of stuff/goodies which they are throwing away. We did not actually saw this but what we saw was a man and a woman team, probably husband and wife, hauling off about 10 bag full of stuff from the garbage bin which earlier in the morning was empty of goodies. This couple came at the perfect time and came out of dumpster diving that day with food good for at least a week for a family of 5.
I have heard and read about dumpster diving in the USA and UK in the internet from some bloggers. It was interesting for me because in the land of my birth, the Philippines, a lot of poor people goes hungry for lack of food and huge amount of food going to garbage is unthinkable and unimaginable.
So we watched and we thought that even some French people are so poor that they had to dumpster dive.
We stayed two nights free camping in a mall parking lot in La Garde, France. Our parking spot was beside a supermarket and across from McDonalds for its free wifi. On our second morning, my husband noticed a man checking out the garbage bins obviously looking for something. So we thought he was looking for food scraps from McDonalds customers. About an hour later, another man came and did the same. A half hour later, two women came and also inspected the garbage bins. All of them left empty handed.
Around noon, a supermarket staff moved the bin closer to the back door of the building and filled it with all kinds of stuff/goodies which they are throwing away. We did not actually saw this but what we saw was a man and a woman team, probably husband and wife, hauling off about 10 bag full of stuff from the garbage bin which earlier in the morning was empty of goodies. This couple came at the perfect time and came out of dumpster diving that day with food good for at least a week for a family of 5.
I have heard and read about dumpster diving in the USA and UK in the internet from some bloggers. It was interesting for me because in the land of my birth, the Philippines, a lot of poor people goes hungry for lack of food and huge amount of food going to garbage is unthinkable and unimaginable.
So we watched and we thought that even some French people are so poor that they had to dumpster dive.
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