Dumpster Diving Electronic Waste. Dumpster diving depends on a human weakness: The same article estimates we're throwing away at least $55 billion in recoverable materials by not recycling it.
Dumpster diving is one such technique to retrieve sensitive information out of randomly dumped devices, drives, documents, and other it assets. The trash may be in a public dumpster or in a restricted area requiring unauthorized entry. All waste generated in the ed during the study period was collected, manually sorted.