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

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

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