| LC control no. | sh2011004113 |
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| Topical heading | Dumpster diving |
| Variant(s) | Diving, Dumpster Picking, Trash Scavenging (Dumpster diving) Skipping (Dumpster diving) Trash picking |
| See also | Salvage (Waste, etc.) |
| Found in | Work cat.: Tao of the dumpster [VR], 1997 (Summary: Examines the meaning of success and freedom, as defined by Burt Jamison, who gave up working as a contractor, choosing instead to spend his time gathering food from dumpsters) Dive! [VR], 2010: container (Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they 'dumpster dive' in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it) Going green : true tales from gleaners, scavengers, and dumpster divers, c2009. Ferrell, J. Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging, c2006. Wikipedia, Aug. 12, 2011 (under Dumpster diving: Dumpster diving (known as skipping in the UK) is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the dumpster diver; under Dumpster: Dumpster diving involves persons voluntarily climbing into a dumpster to find valuables, such as discarded metal scrap, or simply useful items, including food and used clothing) Urban dictionary, via WWW, Aug. 12, 2011 (1. Dumpster diving is looking for treasure in someone else's trash. (A dumpster is a large trash container)) |
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