Excerpts from an interview with Punch, a homeless squatter with great line in dumpster-diving and scavenging.
Punch’s interview demonstrates how far some fast food outlets will go to keep poor people away from their rubbish. It’s also a story of modern day ingenuity as Punch describes the best and worst dumpsters, and how to get hot dumpster food.
Sample text:
It’s pretty much corporate policy at McDonald’s to have a compactor as opposed to a dumpster. So next time you hear one of those great commercials about Ronald McDonald House, and how they care for children, just remember how they’re shafting the poor…
The full text is here.

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