Dumpster Diving

Dumpster diving is a popular form of modern salvaging of waste in large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the picker. It is not confined to dumpsters specifically, and may cover standard household waste containers, landfills or small dumps.

Overview
Traditionally, most people who resorted to dumpster-diving were forced to do so out of economic necessity, but this is not the case today. However, the activity is performed by people out of necessity in the developing world. Some scavengers perform in organized groups, and some organize on various internet forums and social networking websites. By reusing, or repurposing, resources destined for the landfill, dumpster diving may be environmentalist endeavor (and is thus practiced by many pro-green communities). The wastefulness of consumer society and throw-away culture compels some individuals to rescue usable items (for example, computers) from destruction and divert them to those who can make use of the items.

A wide variety of things may be disposed while still repairable or in working condition, making salvage of them a source of potentially free items for personal use, or to sell for profit. Irregular, blemished or damaged items that are still otherwise functional are regularly thrown away. Discarded food that might have slight imperfections, near its expiration date, or that is simply being replaced by newer stock is often tossed out despite being still edible. Many retailers are reluctant to sell this stock at reduced prices because of the risks that people will buy it instead of the higher-priced newer stock, that extra handling time is required, and that there are liability risks.

Text from Wikipedia.

Where are the Dumpsters?
You can find the Dumpsters we mostly commonly go to in the Floating City warehouse and boats on this map. Be welcome to add any new information.

On this map there is a list of many Dumpsters around Copenhagen. Be welcome to edit and share information with the world. You can find more information about this map and Dumpster diving techniques in here: https://freetd.noblogs.org/

Free the Dumpster!