Word: dumpster
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...That's when the Dumpster divers - townies and students alike - get to work. (I recall, eight years ago as an RA, raiding rooms in my apartment complex for espresso machines and other appliances that had been left behind.) Some come in search of academic items, others the purely recreational. This month, for example, a teen walking past a collection site for discarded goods at Princeton University picked up a toy gun that soon afterward was mistaken for the real thing, setting off an emergency response that resulted in a half-hour campus lockdown. (See TIME's photos from a public...
...very end of every school year, on a big campus, it's like 10,000 evictions are happening at the same time," says Jeff Ferrell, a sociology professor at Texas Christian University and the author of Empire of Scrounge, a book on Dumpster diving. "What do you do with all that perfectly reusable stuff that gets tossed?" The answer, increasingly, is to start a collection program like TCU's Trash to Treasure...
...Lisa Heller Boragine was a graduate student at Syracuse University when she realized how much colleges throw out unnecessarily. In 1995, ?Boragine ventured into a Dumpster in search of a lost ring. "I was floored by what was in there," she says. "There were TV sets, an unopened case of ramen noodles and a cigar box full of rare stamps." She went on to found Dump & Run, a nonprofit that has advised more than 30 institutions on how to salvage what students jettison, including some truly trashy items. "Someone at one school brought in a 3-ft.-tall in?flat...
...Dunster couldn't just let well alone. They had a good thing going, but decided to throw this shitty sign up on it. Well done, Dumpster...
Next up is Dunster, whose video is...well, let's just say it's in true Dumpster form (you can see where this one's going) who took down their initial attempt...again, we'll reference what will probably be their best...