"Freegans" Make Odd Statement with "Perfectly Good" Food

posted by Huy Dang at 10/25/2010 03:49:00 PM

FreegansDumpster diving is far from a fad with UNC-Charlotte students, but 20-year-old Kaitlyn Tokay and her friends say it's catching on.

A self-described community activist, she began digging through grocery store trash bins in May and blogging on Facebook about the "perfectly good" food she found, cooked and ate. It was meant to be a month-long experiment, to expose society's continued wastefulness, even in a recession.

But five months later, Kaitlyn Tokay is still at it, only now she's part of a team. And as for her blog, readership is at 1,600 and growing.