Junk man

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," is which Death is personified by a junk man. [ [http://carl-sandburg.com/junk_man.htm "THE JUNK MAN"] Carl-Sandburg.com (accessed June 20, 2007)]

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


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