Dumpster Directory: Freegan.info’s Guide to Recovering Discarded Waste in Your Community
Check back periodically because we add new locations and update old ones. If you use these locations, we welcome your feedback on what you find. Let us know if you get flack from store managers or local divers that indicate a location is being over-dived. If this happens, we will drop it from the directory.
We also welcome your submissions of top dumpstering spots and local wisdom. Send submissions to ask@freegan.info.
Please DO NOT reprint this list in commercial publications because it could endanger our access to the resources, but feel free to copy and distribute it individually.
PLEASE, respect the CARDINAL RULE of trashpicking — don’t make a mess! Open bags carefully and reclose them. Make it look like you were never there, so the place you are recovering waste from won’t chase away foragers in the future!
Oh, and don’t forget Food Not Bombs is in practically every city giving out food regularly. Check out this link to FNB Local Groups.
New York Metro area:
New York City, NY
Oradell, NJ
River Edge, NJ
Hackensack, NJ
Teaneck, NJ
Wayne, NJ
Other US:
Albany, NY
Buffalo, NY
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati, OH
Marietta, OH
Indianapolis, IN
Minnetonka, MN
Tulsa, OK
Boulder, CO
Grand Forks, ND
Salt Lake City, UT (external link)
San Francisco, CA
Orange County, CA
Seattle, WA
Tacoma, WA
Further afield:
Vancouver, BC
London, UK (external link)