dumpster life

picking up the leftover of today's society - not a metaphor, just literally.
I live in a house where we dont have heat but a fireplace where we burn wood pallets that we find thrown away around town.
We went and got pallets today by the Art Supply Store dumpster.
Then on the walk back we visited the Trader Joe's dumpster and got a month worth of pasta, yogurt, cream cheese, a bouquet of flowers all still good and long before due date.
What jokes.
Perfectly good things are being thrown into the trash everywhere, everyday.  I originally entertained the idea of dumpster dive because of the idea of free food.  But then it really made more sense now that I have come to realized that we are helping our society to waste less things.  Not that we're making crazy big steps toward ending ridiculous food waste problem but we are helping by not buying which gives company less reason to make more food and more waste.  We are also helping to reduce the amount of food waste by actually eating it and feeding other people.
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i dont really want to right now but topic for another discussion - the spoiled brats that we have become as a product of the modern society where surplus of products are thrown away and not used to their full potential.