Nat Geo’s Garbage Moguls

03/16/10  Print This Post Print This Post    2 Comments      Written by Julie Schwietert
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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.

Tagged under: dumpster diving, National Geographic
Filed under: global environmental issues

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Julie Schwietert is the managing editor of Matador Network. She contributed a chapter to the recently published book, The Voluntary Traveler, and is currently working on five features for Fodor's Puerto Rico, 6th Edition.

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  • Hal Amen replied on March 17, 2010

    Yay for dumpster diving!

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  • joshua johnson replied on March 18, 2010

    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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