Running around like a mad-person around SRU campus today trying to find some big leftover score from students leaving for spring break. All of the new green trash hoppers were empty. I found it hard to believe that SRU is that efficient. Also today, I was looking for internet, and all of the buildings that I checked were locked. Like a weasel though, I was able to sneak into one building, and happened on a mostly uneaten Italian sub in one of the student lounges. Today I also explored more of the outside trash cans, finding a Panera Bread leftover. I’m afraid I’m getting desperate. It is likely that I will be taking a minor inventory of my current waste-stream stock to get an idea on how to ration the goods through this week of spring break. My plans were to leave to go bum around Findlay, Ohio for spring break. There classes are in session, and the city has more accessible grocery store dumpsters. I really don’t know what is in store for me this week.
When I talk with others about this experiment, common questions often come up. Maybe I’ll put together an added page for Q&A’s like: What got you started? Have you ever eaten any thing gross? How long have you been doing this? What is the point?
I mostly consider the point of this experiment. As I’ve been told, this is may not be some righteous movement that will put me in the history books. I am putting my self in an extremely unhealthy high risk situation (don’t eat after me). But our food comes from somewhere; planted, cared for, and harvested by someone; packaged, shipped, and stocked by someone. Our food was intended to serve one purpose in particular, to feed us. Knowing this complex chain and involvement of what goes on my plate, I often tend to take food for granted. People around the world, or even across the street, are going to bed with extreme hunger and even dying because they have gone without. I’m finding it unjust to consume more than what is needed, like consuming beyond our means, then discarding the excess as waste. Food is important to me, and I think it is reasonable to manage our plate better by knowing and caring about their inputs.
One trash hopper contained a Tupperware of velveeta shells and cheese, yogurt, F- McDonalds, and SRU lunch bag cookies. A social event was planned for the evening, so I was scrounging around campus like described above. It was out at Ken’s. The night started with a grey area. Ken had not been throwing out the bottom of the chip bags. He had them all stuffed into one bag. I couldn’t turn that down. Can you imagine being exited for the bottom of the bottom of the bag. Through the evening I licked a few plates and cleaned a few spoons. Pictured are lines of pound cake, bread crumbs and an eggplant dish.
BREAKFAST: Velveeta shells and cheese.
LUNCH: no
DINNER: chips, pound cake, bread crumbs, eggplant, tomato sauce.
LATE: chicken nuggets, fries, Italian sub, cornbread, pita bread, chips, Panera bread
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