Do you spend your free time loitering around rubbish dumps in search of discarded loot? Would you like to?
Do you get your 'retail therapy' with your head in a skip? Would you like to?
Do you dream of owning a solar-powered White-van to carry your treasures home from the recycling centre?
Can't remember the last time you bought something brand new?
Have you ever found your dinner around Safeway's er, rear entrance?
Well, harketh thine ear, weary wastrel, because ScavengeUK is the e-group you've been waiting for.
Use it to:
  • make contact with other garbage geeks
  • announce sightings of desirable discards for possible pickup by other junk jockeys
  • alert other members of items you've seen that beg collecting
  • swap items you've found or cooperate on repair and recycling of items recovered
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    Tatter's guides Tatter's guides: Guides to profitable waste recovery in the UK
    NB: this is a work in progress.
    Evasion by CrimethInc. Evasion: Read CrimethInc.'s brilliant Dumpster Diving road trip fiction (or is it?) here. Read the entire book online, or download it to print or read later.
    "Excluding all corporations, the text from this book may be reproduced without permission in any form and quantity, by any means necessary."
    (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. Many computers already have this installed. Download it here if necessary)
    FreeCycle FreeCycle London: The London Freecycle Network is open to all who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself!
    Freebies More Free Stuff: this is Gum Tree's list of items that are free to a good home. Bicycles, cars, computers, furniture and much else show up here on a regular basis. Check it daily!
    London skip maps London Maps: ...not exactly streetmap.co.uk but these maps may just guide you in your quest to recover the table crumbs of London's IT world - before they fill a hole in the land
    Skip-raider's stash Tatter's gallery: the evidence! A bunch of stuff rescued from London's refuse
    Dumpster-diving in the news Sites/Forums/Newsgroups: See SkipDotOrgDotUK, Dumpster World, alt.dumpster and misc.consumers.frugal-living

    Dumpster Diving articles: here, here, here, and here.
    Curb your consumption! Not for consumption: resources to assist you in reducing your environmental impact to something nearer your fair share
    Permaculture Growing your own: see Land & Liberty, Plants For A Future, Really Wild Food, Primal Seeds, Food in the Wild, Guerilla Gardening, Allotments and Container Gardening (...because Resistance, as they say, is fertile)
    Recycling/Repair Resources Recycling/Repair Resources: a selection of little-known but very useful sites to assist you in repairing and recycling more waste
    The promised land... (fill) Feed it back: aspersions, accolades, bouquets, brickbats, comments, complaints, compliments, derogation, derision, epithets, etc!?

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