General Article Fighting food waste with dumpster dinners

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By Marie Mourad and Alex Barnard

By revealing and rescuing the piles of edible food left outside supermarkets, ‘dumpster divers’ have contributed to public mobilisations against food waste over the last few years. In the US, Barbara (all names are pseudonyms), a 45-year-old high-school Spanish teacher, sees dumpster diving as a way to focus media and popular attention on mass consumerism, which, in her eyes, is “destroying the planet.” For Benjamin, a 25-year-old self-described anarchist and ...

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