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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