Expedition Two: Doing it (slightly more) right

Realized a basic format could be useful, so henceforth i will try the following:

First, a short description of the general plan.  


Then a listing of Place A
Place B
Place C
And so on


The story in a more exciting format. Exciting equals long and may be boring for some. Therefore, it finishes with a short...

Description of results where
Every Place
And its result
Is listed




So, while trying this out I will tell you about out second expedition.
This time our planning led to us bringing a list, taken from http://trashwiki.org/en/G%C3%B6teborg containing several known locations where we probably would find accessible containers with food.
Our targets this time where:

Coop Konsum at Wieselgrensplatsen
Netto at Temperaturgatan
Ica at Temperaturgatan

We all met up and headed for our first target, Coop Konsum. We got there without any real inconvenience and quickly found the container. It was a simple trashcan, but contained a lot. The place is rather well protected from view, so the risk of disturbance seems rather small and should be a god spot for beginners it seems. It got an automatic light linked to a movement sensor, but it seems its rather broken as it only flashes and then glows with a really dim light which seemed rather pointless as there where real lights further in (which also conveniently eliminated the need for a flashlight). From there we filled about half our trunk with cheese, grapes, some ecological coffee and meat. Rather thrilled we happily (seriously, I was almost skipping) went on to Netto.
Here we found a rather well organised truck loading platform with four trashcans lined up. Worth to mention might be the (once again) sensor triggered lights that activates but since neither houses not any other sign of life could be sighted this once again only helped us. Excited from our last discovery we proceeded to open the trashcans only to find them filled with broken cardboard boxes.
Quite the letdown, but we continued over to Ica, where we found a rather large container at the back. Here we actually got to use the flashlight even though it only made it simpler, It wasn't really necessary.
As with Netto there where no real signs of life surrounding the place, so we took our time and loaded up on more (fresh) meat, a lot of bread, more cheese and some (rather delicious, I must say) salmon.
After this we returned home, tired and rather pleased.

So, it was a rather successful expedition. We got enough food to actually survive a few weeks and it was a load of fun.

Coop Konsum at Wieselgrensplatsen - Success. Easy access, lots of food. [No flashlight needed]

Netto at Temperaturgatan - Nothing really. Easy access but no food. Will check again. [No flashlight needed]

Ica at Temperaturgatan - Success, great place. Container with lots of different food, good spot, easy access. [Flashlight recommended]

You probably noticed i made the name of the different stores bold in in the flowing text part. Thats for easy parsing of it if you want a specific review.

Until next time, happy diving.

Expedition One: The Beggining

Welcome.
This here is supposed to be a blog about dumsptring (or dumpster diving) mainly in and around Gothenburg.
I initiate this the day after I started dumpstring for real, so it will be a tale of sorts, from day one and forward. By this I hope i later on will help beginners to dumpstring out by providing sort of a step-by-step manual in the art.
I also strive to keep information sources about the current condition of dive spots up to date and me and a few friends also strive to create a real map with markers: both where there are available "garbage", where it isn't and where no one we know have checked.

So, to initiate this, let me tell you about our first expedition.

Me and two friends, which i figure will be my most frequent companions in upcoming expeditions, set out to check the area around my apartment. We had little to none information about any of the stores around here which are:


Coop Konsum at SKF.
Hemköp at Kortedala Torg.
Ica at Allahelgonakyrkan.
Lidl at Gallileis Gata.
Ica at Rymdtorget.


(Spots named after their corresponding tram stops for your convenience;)

A friend of mine live in a collective in the area and made some background checkup. We found out that Lidl apparently protects its garbage with cameras and fences (what the fuck is up with that, honestly?), and therefore decided it was a little overkill to try and get in there.
However, it seemed like Ica at Rymdtorget was available in some manner, so we set out. Once there, we found it blocked and locked in a container that seemed all but accessible.
We continued to Ica at Allahelgonakyrkan, where the only thing we found that was even remotely of interest was a locked room which seemed to be filled with paper and a normal trashcan which where filled with.. trash.
Not letting those setbacks foul our mood we ventured forth to Hemköp at Kortedala Torg, where we discovered a open door leading to a room with what seemed like a rather interesting collection of container-ish-devices.
Filled with anticipation we entered to find that the very same panzer-container that Ica at Rymdtorget used seemed to be in fashion and once again we left empty handed,
Finally we set out for our last destionation: Coop Konsum at SKF.  Well there we quickly found out they had built themselves a huge locked garage to hide their trash from our prying hands.
Rather disappointed we gave up and headed home.
Tomorrow, however, we will once again set out, and now we'v actually done some real research, meaning we know where we should go.
(Actually 'tomorrow' is 'today'.)