dumpster diving

Noun

 * 1)  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

 * , D-Mart, dumpstering
 * , garbage picking, garbing
 * , skipping, tatting

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 垃圾搜尋
 * Czech: vybírání odpadků
 * Danish: skraldning
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, glanage alimentaire,
 * German: Dumpstern,
 * Hungarian: guberálás,, kukabúvárkodás
 * Japanese: ゴミ漁り
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: søppeldykking
 * Nynorsk: søppeldykking, dumpsterdiving
 * Spanish: recolección urbana
 * Swedish: containerdykning, sopdykning,