From Dumpster Diving

Scott Erickson
Mr. Neuberger
English Comp. 102-104
31, Aug 2011
Single Paragraph Essay
From Dumpster Diving
The excerpt “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner, talks about his life living from dumpster to dumpster and the best way to efficiently survive from it. Even though Lars is homeless he is able to sustain life due the waste of other people. Lars, a homeless man who lives on the streets of Austin, Texas scrounges the dumpsters of the local college living off their waste which become his new found possessions. Eighner says, “I am an accomplished needle worker due to sorority girls buying embroider-by-number kits, working a few stitches, getting frustrated and throwing out the lot.” He tended to stay close to the college because the students wasted more than any other group of people “due to not knowing if the food was bad or not and just because they didn’t have to pay for it,” he says. If Lars is able to get along through life but eating other peoples garbage wouldn’t more people benefit if Americans were not so wasteful and putting a stop to hunger could possibly be a result?



Eighner, Lars “on Dumpster Diving” Power of Language: Language of Power, New York
Pearson Learning Solutions, 2009 357-69 print