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A show about people who make money by dumpster diving and fashioning trendy new products out of old ones.

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MatadorNights co-editor Kate Sedgwick was dumpster diving before it was cool. And she’s written a how-to guide all about it.

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Julie Schwietert

Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.

  • http://matadortrips.com/ Hal Amen

    Yay for dumpster diving!

  • joshua johnson

    I don’t even have to touch a dumpster to dumpster dive in downtown Seattle. People just leave trash and treasure out in the alleys! Just yesterday I found a 13 ft fake hemlock!
    Score!

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