Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sour

From: Pete Joules <pjoules_at_joules.enterprise-plc.com>
Date: Wed Oct 28 17:10:48 1998

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Hans Franke wrote:

> > However, skip-diving is now officially banned I
> > have been quite strongly warned off several times, once for just looking at
> > the skip! The warnings came from quite high up, passed down through my
> > boss.
>
> Seams to be an attitude of all management - bann whatever
> you don't undestand

I think the attitude of many companies in the UK is "if we wanted to give
it away we would do so, once we have decided to throw it away it stays
thrown away".

As far as the legal position is concerned I am aware of sucessful
prosecutions for theft from piles of rubbish left by the kerb for
collection by the dustmen and also for skip diving in the skips outside a
local authority tip. In both cases the theft was said to have been from
the local authority as they own the rubbish once its owner has thrown it
out.

I think with the modern ideas about environmentally friendly disposal of
waste it would be appropriate for the local authorities to turn a blind
eye to 'scavengers' like ourselves and thus reduce the amount of useful
stuff which ends up in landfill ;-)

Regards
Pete
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 17:10:48 GMT