dumpster diving

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌmpstəˈdaɪvɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌmpstɚˈdaɪvɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ

dumpster diving (uncountable)

1. (US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.

   Hyponym: binology

   • 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town‎^[1]:

     Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving.

• Diving in the term refers to putting one's hands into the dumpster (or other receptacle storing discarded items) rather than one's whole body.

dumpster diving

1. present participle of dumpster dive

• binning, D-Mart, dumpstering
• garbage gleaning, garbage picking, garbing
• skip-raiding, skipping, tatting
• trashing

• dumpster dive
• dumpster diver

• freeganism
• scavenge

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