Freeganism VS Consumerist waste

This post is extremely prolix, since I'm sort of uninspired, but bear with me for a second:

In front of a mall in Curitiba, someone wrote a graffitti that says "You all know the price of everything, but the value of nothing". There's no need to explain, for any human being that's conscious of our societal demise, that this phrase holds a lot of truth within it.

There was a time when people valued every single resource nature could provide them, using them up in the best way possible to take the biggest advantage of it they could. But forth came the industrial era, and the consumerist regimen of "buy this! buy that!" took over. The faster industries became, the quicker older products got obsolete or unfashionable. Time passed, and a lot of re-useable things got replaced with disposable ones (diapers, bottles, god, even CAMERAS in some countries).

Following this line, inevitably, the waste of resources increased exponentially, since people started getting rid of their disposable goods and retire their obsolete devices in a rate that was never seen before the industrial times. Nowadays, disposal, waste and throwing away are just as ordinary a part of our everyday routines as eating, sleeping and working.

Nowadays, our society's waste is big enough to build a new one with. That's where freegans come in. By consuming what other people waste, they are actually getting around pretty well: they have enough to eat, drink and wear. It's incredible to see how many people can survive only on what other people throw away daily. There's so many freegans around, and some of them are even professors and writers, definitely not your average drunken bums.

Freeganism is the philosophy of only consuming what comes for free. The philosophy of wasting little as possible, and cause as little impact as possible to the world's resources. Planting their own food or feed (impressively well, actually) on other people's waste.

I'm not saying we all should be freegans. I'm not a freegan myself, I'm too adaptated to the "modern commodities", but freegans are definitely people I admire a lot, carrying on a whole complete life in the shadow of our decadent society.

We could, very well, learn a thing or two from them. If all of us actually learned to take full advantage of the resources we have in hands before seeking more, trust less on disposable items and use our goods up to the maximum of their possibilities, our society would cause a way smaller impact in the world's resources, and that'd make room for more people, and, in the long run, increase the lifespan our human society.

It's not like I want everyone to change their lives completely, just maybe think of the possibilities of that Mountain Dew PET bottle before throwing it in the bin, and progressing from that point. And thank the freegans when you get good at it.