On Dumpster Diving By Lars Feighner

In the essay On Dumpster Diving, Lars Feighner sheds his opinion on college students based on his experience “scavenging” through college dumpsters. Feighner communicates the unawareness of the students due to their careleness, ignorance, and wastefulness. Undeniably Feighner without the thoughtless students, would have a more difficult time in sustaining his life.
College students are careless, with their waste, due to this Divers such as feighner are able to meet needs of survival. With the transition from childhood to fullgrown adult hood students now make their own decisions. They dispose without thinking, Feighner states they act more careless due to some having a support finically. This belief or crutch allows them to be more careless or act without thinking, the more careless students are the more waste ends up in dumpsters, and become of use to people in need. While being careless hurts one end, it also provides support to ones who uncover the waste. …show more content…
From unexpired food, to unused cans, students will dispose of anything which leaves a question “are they just unaware” Unaware of what is viable, from how long certain foods remain, or how leftovers may be salvaged. In their upbringing did lack of attention to how produts were stored be the reason? There is no question to an obvious ignorance but even the likes of an experienced Feighner cannot deliver a specific reason for each dumpster he scavenges through. Students are adults but are they equipt with the information a general adult has when it comes to useful and