One person’s trash is another’s treasure.
It’s 9:30 pm on a Tuesday outside an undisclosed supermarket on the border of Sutton Place, where a group of 10-15 “Freegans” has gathered for a biweekly “trash tour” to dumpster dive for salvageable food and other goods.
Clad in masks and gloves, these urban foragers — who encompass multiple boroughs, vocations and age ranges from 20s to 60s — scavenge the cans in hopes of getting their landfill.
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