Before you get too enthusiastic about dumpster diving, might I suggest you check the local regulations? Around here it'd get you in big hot water since the people who provide the dumpster bins actually own anything that goes in them.

Same is true here for picking up items put out on the roadside unless it has a sign on it that says "free for the hauling" or some such or is in a box marked FREE.

Better safe than sorry so check it out, folks.

One other caution: there is a common affliction among 'dedicated' dumpster divers, especially among divers who dig in dumpsters with mixed items and garbage, and it's a very hard to cure, itchy, rash that occurs on the hands and arms. Don't know what it's official name is but this is just an FYI. I read about it in an article way back when.

Sandi Bowman