Junk man

Junk man is the (largely American) term for a person that buys, trades, or collects disparate items (scrap and usable/repairable things) that are considered of little or no value to their owners. This person then tries to sell or trade these items at a profit to other individuals and scrap yards.

Appearances in pop culture

The poet Carl Sandburg has a poem called "Junk Man," in which Death is personified by a junk man.^[1]

Footnotes

See also

• Karung guni
• Rag and bone man, the British equivalent of this vocation
• Sanford and Son, a television program centered around a junk man and his son
• Dumpster diving
• Waste picker