Dumpster diving
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Dumpster diving is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unwanted items discarded by their owners but deemed useful to the picker. It is not confined
A person dumpster diving
A man rummaging through a skip at the back of an office building in Central London
Food obtained by dumpster diving in Linköping, Sweden
Unsold books from a bookstore near the University of Washington are piled into a dumpster.
Gleaning
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Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops in the field after harvest. During harvest, there is food that is left or missed often because it does not meet store standards for uniformity. Sometim
Dumpster diving
…someone is primarily seeking recyclable metal, they are scrapping, and if they are picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields, they are gleaning. In such instances, unpackaged and hence lower quality food waste is commonly termed scree. People dumpster dive for clothing, furniture, food, or for…
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857
Gleaning by Arthur Hughes
Impoverished Germans gleaning in 1956
Jules Breton, The Gleaner, 1875, Aberdeen Art Gallery