dumpster diving

See also: dumpster-diving

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

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.

Derived terms

• Trumpster diving

Verb

dumpster diving

1. present participle of dumpster dive

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 (fi), roskisdyykkaus (fi)
• French: déchétarisme (fr) m, glanage alimentaire f, trésordure (fr) f
• German: Dumpstern n, Containern (de) n
• Hungarian: guberálás, turkálás (hu), kukabúvárkodás
• Japanese: ゴミ漁り (gomiisari)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søppeldykking m or f

  Nynorsk: søppeldykking f, dumpsterdiving f

• Spanish: recolección urbana f
• Swedish: containerdykning c, sopdykning c, dumpstring (sv) c

See also

• freeganism
• scavenge

Further reading

• dumpster diving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia