They're not buying it.

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Why buy a Lamp, a chair, or a head of Lettuce when you can find a perfectly good one in the trash? This is the philosophy of the urban scavengers who car themselves freegans. They try to minimize their participation in what they see as an out-of-control consumer culture. So they gather fruit from the supermarket dumpster, dress in cast-off clothes, and furnish their homes with items found on the street. "You can find just about anything in the trash," says Marko Manriquez, 28, of San...