What does "freegan" mean?
Freegans use what others throw away.
Dumpster diving (note: part of a freegan lifestyle) 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. The practice of Dumpster diving is also known variously as urban foraging, binning, alley surfing, aggressive recycling, Curbing, D-mart, Dumpstering, garbaging, garbage picking, garbage gleaning, dumpster-raiding, dumpstering, dump-weaseling, tatting, skally-wagging, skipping, or trashing.
Source: Wikipedia
Other terms:
- Food not Bombs
- Providing food for free, rescued from garbage bins.
- Containering
- Getting food out of the container.
