Freeganism

The world is inhabited by numerous cultures consisting of different lifestyles. Freeganism is a subculture that is ordinarily unheard of. The characteristics are impressively diverse from those most would associate with everyday life. The capitalistic culture incorporates commodified food, organized structure, ‘hygienically clean’, easier accessible foods, and more individualization. On the other hand, a freegan culture is comprised of free food, a less organized structure, ‘dirty’ foods with a chance

Lauren Singer is a teen activist who has decided to live waste free. Lauren Singer has lived a waste-free life for 3 years. She has gone through an amazing waste free journey. Over the last few years, Lauren made a website called “Trash Is For Tossers,’’ which helps people with living waste free. Now that living a waste-free life is becoming more popular people are learning how to live a waste-free life the right way. There are so many benefits that people have from living a waste-free life. Lauren’s

Everyday we are extremely wasteful with our resources and freeganism is a movement to fight that. “For those new to the term (free + vegan), a freegan is a person who has decided to boycott capitalist society by severely curtailing consumption of resources through reusing, recycling and Dumpster diving” (Kelley). Freegans simultaneously fight the system while also minimize waste, by utilizing the items that would otherwise serve no purpose. “Freegans want to put an end to waste and to the damage

It’s amazing how wasteful people are. In Lars Eighner’s story “On Dumpster Diving” he discusses his many trials and tribulations of being homeless and scavenging for food and clothing out of dumpsters. He discovers and reveals how wasteful many stores and restaurants truly are. To date, many companies take for granted everyday items they discard, even though they may still have value to scavengers. Freegans, which are a part of an anti-consumerists lifestyle, live ethically by reusing trash; this