dumpster diving

See also: dumpster-diving

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dumpster diving (uncountable)

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

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.

Verb

dumpster diving

present participle of dumpster dive

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Further reading

dumpster diving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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