Telegraph.co.uk: Dumpster diving with the freegans: Why pay for food?
James Hall is amazed at all the goodies on offer as he joins anti-consumerist activists in ‘dumpster diving’
Sleep is cheap for Dave Hamilton. That’s because the Bristolian paid almost nothing for his king-sized wooden bed. Mr Hamilton salvaged the bed frame from a skip.
The mattress came from Freecycle.org, a free online exchange site. All he paid for were the screws to put it together. “The entire bed cost me less than £3,” he boasts