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bicostp:
I'm sorry but eating out of the trash is probably the most idiotic thing you could do to yourself. You'd have to be really desperate for that to be a viable option (that is, you've been banned for life from the soup kitchens). Remember, it doesn't have to be moldy and soaked in dumpster juice to carry e.coli or other diseases. (And yes that is a definite possibility; especially if they previously threw any undercooked or raw red meat in there.

I just buy and eat my own food like every other sensible person out there who has the opportunity. When I cook stuff at home, I make up as much as I need, or do a big batch and freeze the surplus for later. (It's less wasteful and cheaper in the long run.) Yay capitalism. 8-)

Now, dumpster diving for computer parts... Well that's different. You can always powerwash cases and spray things with Lysol, and they're usually not thrown in with kitchen waste and table scraps because they're sent to a processing center for recycling. I've pulled a bunch of nice stuff from the trash pile at work: DVD burners, memory, hard drives, entire laptops (or the parts necessary to re-assemble them), routers, switches, desktops, even a couple PDAs and an LCD or two. Everything works; I guess some of it came from peoples' desks getting emptied after they got fired. (Well, it's not exactly dumpster diving, but "raiding the bins marked "TRASH" in the loading dock.)

Cartilage Head:
 I agree with Kieffer. When I was a dishwasher at a restraunt that charged even the employees, I usually gathered the food that hadn't been bitten into, or cut off the bitten parts of sandwiches and stuff, and ate it as my lunch. I wouldn't go poking through a garbage can or a dumpster unless I had just seen something good thrown away really recently.
 
 I have also gone into mexican restraunts that served those really delicious tortilla chips and dip, scooped them into a bag or box, and left with my large snack.

ThePQ4:
Hmmm...
I was reading a a book a long time ago that had a section in it on dumpster diving, and they didn't reccomend taking food out of Restaurant bins... Now, if you can find decent produce or canned items that have been discarded, go for it, but otherwise, I think you're just risking getting sick.

If you're really looking for a deal, talk to people at the supermarket. Chances are you can get deals on "nick and dent" items or near-date produce and bakery items.

Switchblade:
I certainly wouldn't dumpster-dive for food unless it was in tins or something, but we've scavenged other stuff before, mostly from the skips on the university campus. For example, the tyre iron in my car, the desk chair I was using last year, one of my XBox 360 controllers, a working copy of Knights of the Old Republic II for PC, an electric screwdriver, a cricket bat and an unopened twelve-pack of Duracell batteries.

The university tends to throw a lot of stuff out at the start of the semester when the budget comes through. Get there before it rains and you can pick up some surprising stuff.

muteKi:
I'm not a dumpster diver or anything, especially for food, since it's hard to assure the quality when temperature conditions aren't optimal and it's stuck with a bunch of older stuff that did go bad. I'd rather be healthy than have a few more bucks.

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