Dumpster Diving - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In 1995 film Hackers, Dade and Kate go dumpster diving and obtain some papers.
• In 2001, dumpster diving was popularized in the book Evasion, published by CrimethInc.
• In the television show The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack the main characters regularly dumpster dive in search of candy.
• Author John Hoffman wrote two books based on his own dumpster diving exploits; The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving and Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course: How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power, and was featured in the documentary DVD The Ultimate Dive.
• British television shows have even featured home renovations and decoration using salvaged materials. Changing Rooms is one such show, broadcast on BBC One. Recovery of still-useful items from discards is well known in other cultures as well; James Fallows noted it in his book written about his time living in Japan. However, much of the richness attributed to dumpster diving in Japan ended with the collapse of the nation's economic bubble in 1990.
• In football banter, the term "bin dipper" has been put towards Liverpool F.C .
• Surfing In 2009 Pro surfer Dane Reynolds plucked an old beat up piece of Polyester foam out of a dumpster behind the Channel Islands Surfboard factory. He shaped the piece of Foam into board that at the time, was thought to be "short, fat, and ugly." The point of the new shape was to distribute volume to the width and thickness of the board in order to cut down in the overall board length to use in smaller surf, all the while staying progressive on the face of the wave. The board was a hit and was dubbed the name "dumpster diver". The board changed the way surfboard shapers designed boards for use in smaller waves by trying to copy the same ideas used in the dumpster diver. Founded by Cecil Barefoot in North Carolina in 1932.