The story of a woman earning a decent income by digging through trash cans in the United States is drawing attention.
On the 26th local time, foreign media, including the New York Post, reported that 32-year-old Tiffany Sherry, who lives in Texas, has been making about $1,000 (about 1.16 million won) a week by reselling items recovered from trash cans in the second-hand market since January 2017. reported.
Reportedly, Sherry accidentally saw a video on YouTube of a group of girls taking a lot of usable items from the trash, and thought she should give it a try.
Sherry found cosmetics worth 1,200 dollars (approximately 1.4 million won) from the first day after searching through the trash can, and her husband saw it and joined the trash can.
The two have been working together for nearly five years.
The Sherry and his wife said they resell some of the items they found in the trash can to make a living, while using the sofa, table and clothes themselves.
Sherry, who has four children, quit her full-time canteen worker last year when she was able to earn a stable living by reselling trash cans.
He currently runs a separate Instagram account with TikTok, which has 2 million followers, and shares videos of him digging through trash cans.
Mr. Sherry can get all the necessary products such as luxury bags, smart watches, computer monitors, etc. in the trash can. Recently, he bought a coffee machine for 750 dollars (about 870,000 won) and hundreds of dollars from the trash can of a household goods company 'Bed Bath & Beyond'. They said they found a significant amount of unopened cosmetics.
When some netizens denounced his actions as 'theft', Sherry countered, "If I hadn't taken things from the trash cans, they would all have gone to landfills." .
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that dumpster diving was legal.
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(Photo='dumpsterdivingmama' Instagram)