freegan
Anti-waste food forager
A freegan is someone who scavenges discarded food and goods as a rejection of consumer culture and waste.
Freegans typically retrieve edible items from dumpsters behind grocery stores and restaurants—food thrown out despite being safe to eat.
The practice combines environmental ethics with anti-capitalist principles: She's been a freegan for years and rarely buys groceries.
Salvaging from waste containers
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- scavengingGathering discarded or dead material
- salvagingRecovering discarded or damaged goods
squatting · freecycling · barter · off-grid · hitchhiking · house-sitting · couch-surfing · roadkill
Salvaging from waste containers
- anti-consumerismOpposition to excessive acquisition
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- reclaimTake back possession
protest · solidarity · awareness · anticapitalism · occupy · redistribution · prefigurative · subversion
No garbage produced
- compostingDecomposing organic matter deliberately
- upcyclingImproving discarded materials' value
- recyclingReprocessing used materials
- ecofriendlyNot harmful to nature
conservation · permaculture · biodegradable · closed-loop · ecological · regenerative
Careful use of resources
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- moneylessHaving no wealth
resourcefulness · penny-pinching · self-sufficiency · DIY · repurposing · secondhand · salvage
dumpster-diving
Salvaging from waste containers
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- scavengingGathering discarded or dead material
salvaging · squatting · freecycling · barter · off-grid · hitchhiking · house-sitting · couch-surfing · roadkill
dumpster-diving
Salvaging from waste containers
- anti-consumerismOpposition to excessive acquisition
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
reclaim · protest · solidarity · awareness · anticapitalism · occupy · redistribution · prefigurative · subversion · countercultural
zero-waste
No garbage produced
- compostingDecomposing organic matter deliberately
- upcyclingImproving discarded materials' value
- recyclingReprocessing used materials
ecofriendly · conservation · permaculture · biodegradable · closed-loop · ecological · regenerative
thrift
Careful use of resources
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
moneyless · resourcefulness · penny-pinching · self-sufficiency · DIY · repurposing · secondhand · salvage
- dietsketogenic, vegetarian, keto, Atkins diet, paleo
- eating habitsvegetarian, omnivore, carnivore, pescatarian, eating
- food trendsfusion, cronuts, oat milk, kombucha, cauliflower rice
- scavengersvulture, vultures, scavenger, hyena, hyenas
- wellness lifestyleshealth nut, clean eater, vegetarian, gym rat, yogi
- dietary lifestylesvegetarian, plant-based, pescatarian, lacto-vegetarian, fruitarian
freeganshopaholic
Compulsive retail addict
consumer · materialist · big spender · brand loyalist · impulse buyer
freeganwaster
One who uses recklessly
overconsumer · litterer · disposer · wastefulness · profligate