ragpicker

• Sustantivo que designa a una persona no cualificada que se gana la vida recogiendo trapos y otros objetos desechados de la basura o de vertederos públicos.

A noun referring to an unskilled person who collects rags and other discarded items from trash or public dumps as a means of livelihood.

1. Waste collectorB2formal

   A person who collects discarded items, such as rags, paper, or metal, from garbage to sell for a living.

   trapero

   • The ragpicker sorted through the trash for reusable materials.
   • Many ragpickers work in informal recycling systems.
   • She saw a ragpicker gathering old clothes from the dump.

   Sinónimosscavenger