0 the activity of searching through skips or other large containers holding waste, in order to find food that can still be eaten or objects that can still be used:
January is a good month for skip diving - lots of people are moving in the new year and also throwing out old things they have replaced over Christmas.
"I still go skip diving", he admits. "With so many companies going into liquidation, I would strongly recommend anyone to take a drive around their local business estates to see what they might pick up".
Skip diving was a pastime I enthusiastically engaged in when I lived in London and Brighton.