dumpster diving

See also: dumpster-diving

English

Noun

dumpster diving (uncountable)

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

Usage notes

• "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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• dumpster dive
• dumpster diver

Translations

act of recovering discarded items

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾搜尋／垃圾搜寻 (lèsèsōuxún)

• Czech: vybírání odpadků m
• Danish: skraldning c
• Finnish: dyykkaus, roskisdyykkaus
• French: déchétarisme (fr) m, glanage alimentaire f, trésordure f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Dumpstern n, Containern (de) n
• Japanese: ゴミ漁り (gomiisari)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søppeldykking m or f

  Nynorsk: søppeldykking f

• Spanish: recolección urbana f
• Swedish: containerdykning c, sopdykning c

See also

• freeganism