Dumpster diver reveals the incredible amount of fresh food supermarkets throw out at the end of the day: ‘Look at all this!’
- Brenden Rikihana dumpster dives in Western Australia
- The 55-year-old donates things to charity
- Video shows a box of quiches found in an Aldi bin
A dumpster diver has made an incredible catch after finding fresh food while rummaging in an Aldi bin.
New Zealander Brenden Rikihana is a self-proclaimed “scavenger” who rummages through supermarket bins in Western Australia.
The 53-year-old, who lives with his family in Perth, donates most of his loot to families struggling to make ends meet and charities in his community.
Mr. Rikihana searches bins at Woolworths, Coles and Aldi for toys, clothes, fresh fruit, vegetables and other food items and shares his diving adventures in dumpsters on his social media channels ‘Bin Living with Big B’.
Brenden Rikihana, 53, (pictured) is a self-confessed ‘scavenger’ who rummages through supermarket bins in Western Australia for produce and fresh food to donate to charity
In a video shared on his YouTube channel “Bin Living with Big B,” Mr. Rikihana searches an Aldi dumpster and finds a box of quiches with two weeks left before the expiration date (pictured)
In a video shared on his YouTube channel on April 17, Mr Rikihana highlighted how “fussy” supermarket giants are after finding a box of Quiche Lorraine’s in an Aldi bin.
“Here we are at another Aldi and immediately we find a whole bunch, a whole box of Quiche Lorraine’s,” says Mr. Rikihana.
Pumpkin, ricotta, spinach and pineapple. Whole box of it. Fixed date. Two weeks left in date.’
The World Kitchen’s 700g quiches cost between $6 and $7 – and were marked with an expiration date of April 23 – making Mr. Rikihana’s find of 11 quiches worth more than $65.
Mr. Rikihana is then seen searching the rest of the trash where he finds a few bags of coleslaw, tomatoes, a bag of potatoes, bagels, strawberries and nectarines.
He checks the best before date of the items and the quality of the fruit and vegetables before removing them from the bin and putting them in bags.
In a video shared on TikTok on Wednesday, Mr Rikihana shows off a range of produce and food items he found in a Coles bin the night before.
The video shows the loot spread out on his table and kitchen bench, including bottles of washing up liquid, toothpastes, shower gels, deodorants, pigeon soap, bread, eggs, spices, fruit and boxes of crisps.
“Look what all this is,” he said.
“Hell, we even got beer and stuff for the hefty price of f**k all.”
Social media users have been outraged by the products that supermarkets are discarding, with many questioning why the items are not donated rather than thrown away.
‘It’s really disgusting what they throw with it! Give this stuff to the homeless, goddamn supermarkets,” one wrote.
“Why tf (the f**k) would they throw all this out when people are having a hard time,” another person commented.
A third agreed: “That’s an alarming amount of waste.”
Others warned Mr Rikihana not to eat the “fun mix” as Coles issued a recall of Smith’s chips after foreign plastics and metal shards were found in some of its products.
Mr. Rikihana, however, reassured his followers by claiming that only the Smith’s cheese and onion and the original had been recalled and the rest was still edible.