a New York City The activist has become an internet star for shaming them for throwing and destroying usable food, medical supplies, designer clothing and furniture through the chain store’s trash.
Anna Sachs – who goes by the name ‘thetrashwalker’ on Instagram and TIC Toc – Recording her ‘Trash Walk’ since 2018, where she wanders the streets of Manhattan and sifts through garbage bags.
Some videos show mountains of garbage bags filled with unopened food and sealed disposable products from places like Party City that can still be eaten or used.
Other videos — such as the one she posted on March from outside CVS — show how companies purposefully rip packages of edible food, hygiene products like tampons, medical supplies and personal care like hairbrushes before throwing them out. Removes.
Anna has also previously targeted fashion brand Coach, as last season’s expensive shoes were thrown away, and a bag was cut off in an apparent attempt to deter anyone from taking it.
She has been approached by other environmentalists with similar motives, and shared how a man even found a live parrot in its cage outside a Petco store.
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Anna Sachs – has become an internet star on Instagram and TikTok aka ‘thetrashwalker’ by sifting through the trash and picking up what can be used
In a video a live parrot was found in a trash can outside a Petco that was sent to him by one of Sachs’ supporters
Anna has repeatedly denounced CVS, and shared this dumpster of edible candy and energy bars, complete with toothpaste, to keep people from taking them.
Anna revealed that some products – such as these RX Bars and Sour Patch Candy – have been purposely opened in order to destroy them.
Last year Sachs asked his TikTok followers working in retail if they had been instructed to destroy unsold or returned merchandise.
A TikTok user reported cutting an office chair with a box cutter while working at an office supply store, Guardian Reported.
Sachs says she eats many unopened foods and candies that she finds because they’re only past their sales date by a month or more, meaning they’re not fresh.
She says that discarded food is always safe to eat — with rare exceptions where a product lasts too long at a store — and argues that they should be donated.
Discontinued foods she donates or eats
Toys that are thrown inappropriately
Open products from outside the supermarket that are still fresh enough to eat
His most recent TikTok video, taken outside another CVS and posted on July 7, has garnered over 2.5 million views and over 5,500 comments.
In the video, she finds garbage bags full of unopened M&Ms, Lindt Chocolates, Heath bars and other candies.
Most of Sachs’ videos focus on the waste from major corporations like CVS, Party City, and Starbucks, but he’s also rummaging through residential and school waste in New York City’s Upper West Side.
In a video posted over the summer, she showed the waste from NYC public schools including school supplies, unopened food, and clothing; Large black garbage bags filled with bread produced over a bakery and less-than-old Dunkin’ Donuts pastries; And piled among the plethora of party city holiday- and event-themed knick knacks and single-use disposable items.
Sacks is on a mission to redefine waste. Some items such as food should be donated and others can be used, such as Party City Super Bowl-themed items at Christmas time.
These are not school supplies and food as part of NYC public school waste
Unopened health bars are past their sale date, but Sacks says they’re still safe to eat and eat them yourself.
These are the foods thrown out by Dunkin’ Donuts
She loads her carts with Party City items, which were closed but glued together, and brings them back to her apartment.
Among a treasure trove of items, she found a pen in its case, which sold for $200 on eBay outside a senior living facility, in a video posted in May of a dumpster full of designer sunglasses in an April video. , and toys like Legos. Seen in some videos.
‘You have these stuff you don’t want. The solution is not to put it in the trash. The solution is to donate,’ said the sack. 2019 Interview with NowThis.
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