What is Dumpster Diving?

In this video, you will learn about dumpster diving. Dumpster diving is the act of going through trash or a dumpster to get information.

To help prevent dumpster diving, you can do one or more of the following:

• secure your trash with a lock
• shred sensitive paper items properly
• destroy or dispose of old storage media in a secured recycle bin
• implement a secure disposal policy

Reflect and share: Now that you have learned about dumpster diving, reflect on how exposed your dumpster is. What kinds of information do you throw into the trash?