one size does not fit all. So, the freegan application in the neoliberalist system is sort of like a
reaction; a reaction of gaining back agency with the aims on other people’s agency.
Conclusion
Dumpster-diving as an activity of freegans proves to be a movement associated with
shifting the perception of food waste. Waste, then reappropriated as a viable form of sustenance.
Yet it remains a sustenance of stigma that is fueled by its actor’s ideals for a more distributive
consumption of goods. An implied healthist slant on the part of divers grabbing the reigns of
their own responsibly and direction in practice of obtaining foods. Diver ideology being
concerned with aforementioned societal ecologies of self-governance then becomes their way to
connect with a gifting and counter-gifting of their surplus searches. By recognizing how these
diver-actors maintain their anti-capitalist yet subtly neoliberal motivations is important in
framing dumpster-diving out of choice as a movement birthed of appointed-responsibility as
motive for practice and response.
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