dumpster divers
Garbage bin searchers
Dumpster divers are people who search through garbage containers—particularly large commercial dumpsters—for discarded items of value.
Some do it from necessity, salvaging food or goods they can't afford.
Others do it as a lifestyle choice, reclaiming waste as a form of anti-consumerism or environmental activism: Dumpster divers found pounds of perfectly good produce behind the grocery store.
- rummagerOne who searches untidily
- scroungerOne who begs opportunistically
- trash pickingCollecting discarded items
- curb shoppingTaking discarded items from sidewalks
- salvagingRecovering discarded or damaged goods
scavenging · urban foraging · foraging · waste · landfill · upcycling · reduce reuse recycle · secondhand goods · found objects · hoboes · food insecurity · repurposing · reuse · gleaning · food rescue · scrappers · circular economy · thriftiness
- eco-activistseco-warriors, eco-warrior, eco warriors, climate activists, tree hugger
dumpster diversbig spenders
Those who spend freely
high rollers · one-percenters · spendthrifts · impulse buyers · trust fund kids
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