Every day in big cities like New York, people throw away a mind-bending amount of garbage – including a ton of food. In fact there’s so much food in the garbage these days that there are people out there who survive off it exclusively. We sent Fair Game contributor Eliza Skinner to learn more about the lifestyles of these urban scavengers.
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