It's known as "skipping" in the UK

[betplom]

Dumpster diving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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."

If you live in the "land of the free and the home of the brave" you could become a millionaire from doing it properly.
(not that a million is a whole lot of money nowadays)

[betplom]

March 18, 2000, 55 Oscars reported stolen were found in a Los Angeles dumpster behind a grocery store. The salvage man, Willie Fulgear, 61, received a $50,000 reward and two tickets to the Oscars. Later, his reward money was stolen from a safe in his apartment.

[flyingillini]

Leroy buys chore buy from the liquor store.