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What (who) is dumpster diving - definition

SEARCHING REFUSE BINS FOR EDIBLE FOOD &/OR USEFUL ITEMS

Dumpster-diving; Dumpstering; Skip Diving; Trash diving; Dumpster Diving; Dumpster diver; Skip diving; Binner; Urban lumberjacking; Trashers; Dumpster dive; Dumpster divers; Binners; Garbage pick; Garbage picker; Garbage pickers; Garbage gleaning; Garbage glean; Garbage gleaner; Garbage gleaners; Dumpster raiding; Dumpster raid; Dumpster raider; Dumpster raiders; Dumpster-raiding; Dumpster-raid; Dumpster-raider; Dumpster-raiders; Bin dipper; Bin dipping; Bin raker; Trash pickers; Garbage theft; Garbage picking; Totting; Containering; Skip salvage; Curb shopping; Trash picking; Street scavenging; Street scavenge; Curb shopper; Skip salvaging

dumpster diver

Someone who looks around in dumpsters for hidden treasure.
I used to think that most homeless people were just dumpster divers.

dumpster diving

/dump'-ster di:'-ving/ 1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract confidential data, especially security-compromising information ("dumpster" is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a "skip"). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see phreaking) used to organise regular dumpster runs against phone company plants and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still rumored to be a favourite of crackers operating against careless targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially useful) cruft. [Jargon File]

totting

noun Brit. informal salvage saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps.

tot something up

Wikipedia

Dumpster diving

Dumpster diving (also totting, skipping, skip diving or skip salvage) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners but deemed useful to the picker. It is not confined to dumpsters and skips specifically and may cover standard household waste containers, curb sides, landfills or small dumps.

Different terms are used to refer to different forms of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, expressions such as curb shopping, trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used. In the UK, if someone is primarily seeking recyclable metal, they are scrapping, and if they are picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields, they are gleaning.

People dumpster dive for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition. Some people do this out of necessity due to poverty, others do it for ideological reasons or professionally and systematically for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster diving

Examples of use of dumpster diving

1. The legality and ethics of such methods as dumpster diving and infiltration are widely debated and vary from state to state.

2. Police said meth users –– known as "cranksters" –– are drawn to identity theft because they can stay up for days scanning computer records or go "Dumpster diving" for discarded financial information.

3. But it does not serve us quite as well for today‘s work involving counterterrorism investigations and counterintelligence." The trainees conducted surveillance, developed informants, consulted with a "prosecutor," checked criminal records, taped phone conversations, went "dumpster diving," collected forensic evidence, served search warrants and learned how to obtain and run a wiretap.