Has anyone ever dumpster dived

[Ookami]

I can't imagine anyone on here who has..

 

I thought that stuff happened in mostly third world countries and on movies/TV

I would love to dive in Intel factory trashcans... One signed "failed CPU's"

[LancerBG]

Homeless people are territorial and willing to fight for the best trash? Luckily doesn't happen here. There's other dangers in dumpster diving too, but that's the kind of one that'd keep me from doing it too.

 

If I'm gonna go dumpster diving again to the nearest scrapyard in here, I guess I'll have to carry a geiger counter... Okay maybe not, I might be over protective, but can't be too careful with alpha particles...

 

Also, you grew up in the ghetto? I feel sorry for you. How's the life now by the way?

 

East Los Angeles born and raised...im hood!   It was what it was man. got the hell out as soon as I could and joined the military, kept me straight. I Live in Las Vegas now and play blackjack for a living...life is skippy thanks. 

[crazy_demon_01]

Just some cat5e Ethernet cables.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Yea, uhh... I think I can do without eating food that's in a dumpster myself, but hey, that's just me...

 

Why? If it's vacuum packed what difference does it make if it's been in a sales display with other plastic wrapped stuff or in a dumpster with other plastic wrapped stuff?

[Ramzez]

Years ago when I was driving garbage truck, I saved all the bottles that I could find from ending up to the dump. Here in Finland some beer and soda bottles incluse a small deposit which you get back if you return the bottle for recycling. So I gathered all the clean and good condition bottles and returned them. This way in a good day I might have earned more than 100€ extra. So I was getting paid for emptying the wheelie bins and made easy money at the same time.

 

I haven't really dumpster dived ever but I have saved stuff from ending up to the trash. Some companies throw away good quality stuff like office equipment, chairs, desks, etc. Also lots of tech gets sent to the dump. There are gigabit routers, cables, still usable laptops, mice, printers, etc.

[tom564]

I can't imagine anyone on here who has..

 

I thought that stuff happened in mostly third world countries and on movies/TV

People can dumpster dive to get information either to commit fraud, learn information about a company to gain access later, etc.  Company's throw out information that social engineers could use to gain trust with a company for example a list  of employees names and phone numbers may seem completely harmless but could be used to gain access to other confidential data. 

[MiracleMan]

I would never do it, it is even considered as theft in germany, but i was never in a sitation where i haven't had enough money to live..

[Ruostunut kokis]

Years ago when I was driving garbage truck, I saved all the bottles that I could find from ending up to the dump. Here in Finland some beer and soda bottles incluse a small deposit which you get back if you return the bottle for recycling. So I gathered all the clean and good condition bottles and returned them. This way in a good day I might have earned more than 100€ extra. So I was getting paid for emptying the wheelie bins and made easy money at the same time.

 

I haven't really dumpster dived ever but I have saved stuff from ending up to the trash. Some companies throw away good quality stuff like office equipment, chairs, desks, etc. Also lots of tech gets sent to the dump. There are gigabit routers, cables, still usable laptops, mice, printers, etc.

That much for returnable bottles and cans? Wow. In my hometown, if I'm searching bottles and cans hard enough from the whole town, I get about 2€/day. There's just so many bottles and cans bought abroad (mainly from Estonia) and returning those won't yield anything.

[Ramzez]

That much for returnable bottles and cans? Wow. In my hometown, if I'm searching bottles and cans hard enough from the whole town, I get about 2€/day. There's just so many bottles and cans bought abroad (mainly from Estonia) and returning those won't yield anything.

 

It's a bit different thing when you empty hundreds of wheelie bins a day. It also depends where you look for the empty bottles. Town centers are usually not as good places to find bottles but from private houses and their wheelie bins usually contains one or two bottles each. During winter time this drops dramatically.

 

However this happened well before the financial crisis in 2008. There might be a shortage of bottles since people don't have as much money to spend, so they make less waste. I haven't driven the garbage truck after 2007.

[TymmVonD]

My mom did this so often that everything we had in our house was either a curb find or a dumpster dive. So... of course I tried it a few times. I once found a CRT 27" flatscreen with a broken cable/antenna input. Had S-Video though. So worked fine. But...

 

...Age- 15

Location- Super D(drugstore) dumpster

6 YES 6!!! 6 packs of "expired" wine coolers

AND a 12 pack(well, 9 pack) of Coors light that was dropped

 

Gold mine for a 15 year old.

Bitches don't read expiration dates.

[threee6]

my friend used to work at a place that tested warranty return PS3 systems, at one point we were taking home loads of faulty PS3's with various faults, stripping them and using the good parts to build consoles. Best bit was if a console was deemed to be not worth fixing they would throw the controllers out with them as well, regardless if they worked or not!

[TechTheWorld]

Yes. Someone in this world has been dumpster diving.

[zerouplol12]

I would never do it, it is even considered as theft in germany, but i was never in a sitation where i haven't had enough money to live..

in some part think about it they threw it out ,who cares if you take it 

[MiracleMan]

I don't understand it either, but you can get charged for theft if you take something out of others dumpsters. 

 

A lot of supermarkets actually sue you because they don't want homeless people etc. around their store, sounds harsh but they don't want them to 'scare' their customers