Rubbish meals a gourmet treat for freegan diners Freegans are activists who protest against over-consumption by getting food from trash bins
Among their favourite foraging sites in New Jersey, for example, is the Giant Gourmet Farmers Market in the city of Hackensack, a veritable goldmine for freegans, who can find "insane quantities" of fresh fish, tropical fruits and exotic vegetables, including figs, papayas, apricots, corn on the cobs and sweet peppers.
The directory notes that two of the market's skips are always full of cardboard which, it suggests, could be valuable material for "all your protest signs", but urges freegans to watch out for the local police.
"Hackensack cops can be a pain," one veteran freegan divulges. "I once had a cop search me, call in reinforcements, question me and stick his flashlight in dumpster garbage bags. He got hummus all over it - it was pretty funny,"
