dumpster-diving

Noun

dumpster diving (uncountable)

1. (US) The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
   • 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.2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

   Synonyms:

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