Empire of Scrounge : : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging / / Jeff Ferrell.
“Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.”-From the IntroductionIn December of...
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