What does «pepenador» mean in Spanish?
- A person who collects waste or garbage, sorts it, looking for something of value or that can be recycled for money. The scavenger usually looks for paper and cardboard, metals (especially iron, steel, copper, bronze, aluminum or lead), bottles, bones and plastics.
♦ Used in: Colombia - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Salvador
Examples of use in Spanish: "chambeaba de pepenadora".
"el pepenador recoge trozos de metal que luego venderá por peso".
"en los vertederos viven miles de familias mexicanas como pepenadoras".
"un conductor arrolló con su automóvil a un pepenador que recogía latas a la vera de la ruta".
"No es el pepenador el que produce basura; la basura produce al pepenador".
- A person who collects the beans left on the ground after lifting a bean crop or other similar planting.