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Bin diving in Vancouver, Canada.

Mega find from Trondheim,Norway.

More than often you will find a lot of food in these low and large box-looking gray dumpsters, in Luxembourg.

Copenhagen: A Floating City trailer loaded with the catch from only one organic food container. The Floating City is a project where people build boats and other stuff mostly from material they find for free in the city. Anyone can join the project and live and work here.

Dumpsterdammer Robino talking to an audience of 80 people in a theater in Leiden, explaining the origins of the food on their plates.

Dumpster dived food from one street in Toulouse.

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