littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In the States the 211 service should be able to give you info on your local options as well as food stamps/EBT. The more destitute and challenging your current situation, the more benefits you’ll be eligible for, IIRC.
That said, the wealthier areas may very well have unlocked/unguarded dumpsters, but getting there without being harassed by the local pigs is the obstacle there. I mean, that’s one of their main jobs: keep whitey happy.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The fuck kind of world do we live in where we need to guard dumpsters?
If it was a tech company that absolutely needed to ensure data was destroyed and absolutely couldn’t take a risk even with regular office trash, sure. Spend the cash to guard the dumpster.
Locking up and guarding food “waste” that is a day beyond a fake-ass sell by date? Really?
(Obviously, I am not ranting at you. The quoted sentence triggered me a bit, it seems.)
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In most urban places, an unlocked dumpster is asking for all sorts of things that normally cost extra to get dumped. Downtown Minneapolis, an open construction dumpster can go about a day without a mattress showing up (biohazard. Massive. Biohazard.) or shitloads of furniture.
In any case illegal dumping drives up the costs for people who do own the dumpster so most times, they’re locked at the very least.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I work in the grocery industry. For us it’s a liability thing. If you get sick and sue, it winds up costing us even if we win. Given the razor thin margins we operate on, we would have to increase prices to cover the extra cost.
The result is most grocery stores toss anything that doesn’t sell and lock the dumpster.
Some is donated, to be sure, but most is just tossed out.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
then there is that, to be sure. lawyers have ruined a lot of things.
in any case, I suspect there’s also logistics involved- getting the donated food to the shelter.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Most places do donate what they can’t sell, unless it’s compromised somehow. Not because of the tax write-off, because that’s kind limited and they basically hit the cap really early in the year. They do it because they don’t have to pay to dump it if food banks are taking it.
halferect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For the business I worked at we locked them because if it was open people would fill them up in a single night meaning we had to pay extra for a early pick up.