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Found In The Dumpster Tied In A Trash Bag. What A Sweet Soul As Well. Poor Thing
The human race is disgusting at times !! Why couldn't they just take it to a shelter!? Thank you for saving this little soul xx
Found This Boy By A Recycling Dumpster Today
Found A Completely Unused Art Set
those things pull you in with the pretty colors, but they ARE trash. ive had so many of these and they DO NOT work
Thought This Was Worth Saving
Ooooh this makes me feel old as I had one of these sets for tech drawing 😃
Two La Creuset’s Left At The Dumpster By My Work Today
Not Dumpster Diving Per Se, But This Antique Hand Painted French Cabinet From The 1890's Was A Part Of The "Junk" I Was Hired To Remove From A House Yesterday!
Ok This Is Epic
Built Myself A Desk Out Of Some Mahogany Base Boards Taken Out Of The Dumpster! My Gaming Chair Was Picked Up From The Curb Side
Someone’s Old Marble Collection Got Put In The Trash And Rescued By Me
Scoreeee. First One Of The Season
Found This Painting In The Trash, Looked Like My Cat So I Grabbed It
My Curbside Cast Iron Haul!
Was Out Of Dogfood And Broke Af. Thought I'd Take A Peek In The Pet Store Dumpster. Score
I've Never Felt The Need To Post A Haul Until This
I Was Digging Through The Trash Of Someone Who Looked To Be Moving And I Found A Set Of Earrings Marked As 18k Gold And A Friend Who Is A Jeweler Tested The Stones And Said They're White Sapphire
I’m Excited About This Find, I’m An Elementary Teacher And Next Year I’ll Have All My Kiddos Write Cards To Their Family/Staff! They Were Sealed In A Trash Bag Untouched On Top!
I work for a greeting cards company (not mentioning names but not that one, the other one!). At the end of the holiday most cards are "destroyed" (i.e. thrown away). It's a waste, I hate it. If we are lucky, the store recycles and the leftovers go with the recyclable trash. If not, they get pitched. This person didn't completely destroy, we are supposed to add dye or soap or something to the bag so no one wants what's inside. I'm actually glad someone found these. I get angry at the end of every season that the leftovers can't be donated to hospitals, hospices, churches, anywhere. Glad these are getting a 2nd life. (This also applies to any stuffed animals or plush toys. Don't let them get wasted!) *Edited for spelling
Found A Perfectly Fine Bass Guitar In The Garbage. On My Birthday!!
Someone Threw Out A Perfectly Working 40 Inch 4k Smart TV. Madness, But Mine Now
Dumpster Diver Needed A Little Help Out After Getting Stuck Down There
This 30+ Year Old Monstera Deliciosa Would've Gone To The Dump. Working At A Moving Firm Has Its Benefits! Girlfriend For Scale
I Have Never Felt So Happy From A Dumpster Find
Pretty Rad Find. My Grandparents Paid Something Like 75 Cents A Months Back In The Day For One Similar. Little Work, And She’ll Shine
I would date this to the 1920s - 1930s, maybe way early 1940s at a stretch, but solidly 1930s at least. It should come up really nice with some T!C—-just please please please don’t paint it, OK?
Back With More To Report. I Thought I’d Retired, But Last Night I Checked The Dumpster Again. Diapers, Storage, Heaters, Toys And Cases Of Cereal Later ($785) Sticker Price, I’m So Glad I Went. More Donation Trips To Make Next Week!
This is just disgusting so many perfectly good items get tossed. I'm glad folks are finding these things and donating though.
Someone Didn’t Feel Like Cleaning Their $800 Espresso Machine. I Found It Sitting On Top Of A Garbage Can Out Diving Last Night
I Love These Little Free Pantries I've Been Seeing Pop Up Lately. They Give Me A Great Opportunity To Practice Mutual Aid With My Neighbors By Filling Them Up With A Bunch Of Perfectly Fine Non-Perishables I Score From Dumpsters!
Found This Disco Ball - Expected It To Be Flimsy, Made Of Styrofoam But Its Actually Very Heavy And Nice!
I Make Blankets For Shelter Doggos/Homeless People And Their Dogs From Linen I Find In Dumpsters. Doggo In Photo Is My Little Weirdo. And No, I Did Not Find Her In A Dumpster:p
In An Open Dumpster Behind My Target…
Saw Someone On Here Say They Found A Bunch Of LED Lights Once. I Thought “Omg I Want To Find Some”… Well I Found 25 Boxes Last Night
Pert Smert If My Favorite Dumpster By Far. Very Aesthetic, Brand New $150 Cat Tower, In The Box? Score. P.s. They Love It
Antique Apothecary Scales Thrown Out By Neighbors
Saved Before It Hit The Trash
Did I Find 30 Pairs Of Brand New $120 Boots In A Shoe Store Dumpster? Do All Of My Friends Now Have Said Pair Of Boots? Yes On All Fronts
And Again... Brand New
Approximately 650 Pounds Of Aluminum Cans Collected At A Music Festival
Was Told You Guys Might Enjoy This. Found About 20 Tablets In The Trash Today. Mostly Old Galaxy Note 10.1 From 2014 But I’ll Take It With A Big Smile
$700 Free Wine.... I Asked The Dumpster God If I Should Quit Drinking. This Is Her Answer.... I Guess That’s A No!
I wonder if my local gold dealer is dumping out of date gold bars. Must check out their dumpster out back.
I Got All Deez 242 Bananas From A Dumpster. Banana For Scale
I’ve Died And Landed In Dumpster Nomad Heaven
I get it, but also if these needed to be refrigerated and the power went out or the fridges broke, the store can't sell them because it could make people sick. Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't thing.
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Some charity should open a homeless restaurant where homeless people can come to eat and the meals can be donated by local stores getting rid of old stock that is usually safe to eat
Many stores here in Canada will try to donate to Foodbanks if their freezer goes out
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For years I was on the board of a local food charity. Various grocery stores gave us our cast away stuff. We saved tons and tons of food from dumpsters. Much of what gets discarded is due to food safety laws in the US, not because "company is evil". Cooling unit malfunctions or loses power? It has to go, even though it is still frozen. Close to date? dented can? Fruit or veggie not perfect? Getting involved in a food charity is a two edged sword / makes you feel conflicted. On the one hand you are doing good / saving stuff from landfills / helping people in need. On the other hand it makes it more "in your face" as to just how much food gets thrown out in America. It is really sad. I could bang on about it but yeah, lots of food wasted due to super strict food safety laws and overly picky US customers. PS - Everything they gave us / we gave away was officially "animal food". The worst of it did go to pigs but most of it went to human beings, just with a legal disclaimer they wouldn't sue us.
There is a company that sells/delivers produce and other things that are less than pretty along with items that are mislabeled. I liked it til I saw a chocolate bar that was full of nuts that were not mentioned. That’s not the same as ugly fruit
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Looks like outside of a Target store or something which leads me to believe they aren't real safe to eat. Possible freezer failure or they could all be expired.
I know there are rules etc for big companies but our Food Banks are in desperate need. Why can't anyone have a heart who works for these places and just let them get quietly donated?!
This totally sucks but unfortunately these products are most likely damaged or out of date so they have to throw it out. I do resets inside of grocery stores and one time we threw out three buggies worth of out of date so sad.
my guess is a broken store freezer and they couldn't give it away because of liability.
These are all frozen food products. the store's freezer probably went out during the night so these are all bad. Unless you want to give them to someone you want to send to the hospital with explosive bloody sh its.
This is just wasteful excess! They could've given it to a homeless shelter or food pantry
We have a lady to grabs a bunch of that stuff and brings it to the local community center for locals to grab... I've grabbed a few myself recently.. Found an amazing Opera Cake recently - going to have to cut off another chunk of that from the freezer..it's amazing!
I can’t believe the food that goes to waste and people are starving. Please donate.
If there is a hurricane and the power goes out for more than a few hours (yes they have generators but they eventually run out of gas), the rules are that everything in the refrigerated area and freezer areas are tossed. So you will see this in Florida. Most of the time, the items are still at least partially frozen, but the health department doesnt trust it. I can see their point but its so much food.
In Norway the food stores puts food that's about to expire in shopping carts (dry food) and in cooling boxes (fresh food) and sells it at a lower percentage, usually between 30 and 50%. That way they don't have to throw away the food and at the same time not lose money but actually earn more. And people can get stuff at a lower rate. Win - win situation👍
Ex-grocery store worker here. Much or even most of that stuff is not shelf-stable. Beware of what you get from the dumpster!
Yes.....disgusting WASTE....our 'form' of capitalism THRIVES on WASTE and GREED!
The amount of food wasted in the US is absolutely disgusting!!!! We create way more trash than other countries!
why could'nt they have donated it to other countries who actually need it instead of throwing it all away?
Probably wouldn't have so many starving people in the world and children going hungry if people would stop throwing away so much damn food and actually donate it
are they old or something or is this just legitimately a massive waste of food cause god damn
If that is food that needs refrigerated or frozen I'd be very careful. Especially if the store lost power for a significant amount of time. About 8 years ago the grocery store I worked at had a 3 day outage and lost every perishable item in the store.
If i could only use 3 pics to sum up the u.s. this would be one of them 😭
Donate that to shelters who would give it to people out on the streets. A lot of people will thank you
I work for a nonprofit specializing in rescuing food to distribute to people with food insecurity. In 2022 alone we have rescued just under 2 million pounds (weight) of food destined for landfills. Every bit of it was given away where it was needed.
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I know that Tattooed Chef and Purple Carrot are really expensive vegetarian (vegan?) frozen meals. This food could have been given away. This breaks my heart.
Possible they were past the sell-by date or had a destroy all stock order by manufacturer?
This Is My Third Load Of This Size, And Much More Left
Todays Finds. I Still Don’t Know How I Found All Of This In The Same Dumpster
Found This Costume With An Extra Head That Snaps Onto The Other Head In A Dumpster
Anyone Know A Good Recipe That Uses Like 80 Red Onions And 60 Bananas?
Another $500+ Haul From My Favorite Dumpster. Haven't Purchased Groceries In Years!
I have to ask, how many times have you had food poisoning? I am all for saving and dumpster diving, but you pulled CHICKEN out of a dumpster?
The Second Day Of Christmas Did Not Disappoint!
Weather Finally Cooling But Grocery Store Waste Not So Much! ...favorite Asparagus Recipes?
That would feed my family of 6 for a cpl of weeks. So for me it would be like 400€ worth of groceries 🤑
Past 2-3 Weeks I’ve Found And Melted All Of This Aluminum Copper And Pewter. I Found 4 Cameras 3 Power Tools And 2 Bikes. For A Grand Total Of 340$ Not Including All The Metal In This Picture. Also Found A Few Computers And Laptops That I Will Be Scrapping Since They Do Not Work
Found This Guy In A Dumpster This Morning
I Found This $90 Dress In Perfect Condition In An Apartment Dumpster. It Has No Damage, Rips, Or Stains And Is In My Exact Size And One Of My Favorite Colors. The Dumpster Gods Smiled Upon Me Apparently. I Need An Occasion To Wear It To
Did I Really Find A $500 Almost Perfectly Functional Aluminum Bike In The Trash And Take It Home?! Yes I Did!
Coffee Grinder Over 100 Years Old Found In The Alley!
32 Ft Ocean Kayak Dad Scored At An Apartment Dumpster
Curb Find!! A Working E-Bike. Unbelievable
My Mom Found These In A Dumpster With The Receipt! Luckily, They’re My Size!
Tub, Surround, And Glass Door Were All Being Thrown Out At Blowe’s. No Leaks!!
Someone Asked What The Coolest Thing I've Ever Found Was: This Ancient Roman Ring In The Original Envelope With A Certificate Of Authenticity
It's Not Much, But It Was My First Dumpster Dive And It Was Exhilarating!
Let's face it. Raisin Bran and toilet paper should go together anyway. Meant to be.
The Trash That Smiles Back!
Lawnmower Found On The Curb On Garbage Day, Didn't Run, Had Water In The Fuel Tank, Put In New Gas And A Newish Spark Plug And It Runs Fine. Sold For $250
This Is A First… $450 Bouquet Of Roses
There Was Twice This Much, But We Shared It Before We Got Home
I Found This Sealed Bottle Of Don Julio In Some Rich People Garbage. Also Got To Get Chased Off By Their Security
Neighbor Threw This Out, New With Box And Charger. It Works Fine, He Used It Once
My Coworkers Are Gonna Be Happy Tomorrow
Here’s A Haul I Lucked Out On Last Week
There's A Dumpster In My Town That Regularly Blesses Me With Bicycles. This Was Today's Find
I Was Just At The Recycling Centre And A Bloke Was About To Put This In The Scrap Wood Skip!
Dumpster Diving Find. Sealed Bottle Of Vodka
Curbside Find
My Brother Found 3 Perfectly New Screens At Aldi
Curbside Find! This Couch Was Too Cool
Pretty Good Haul
My Best Haul Ever. Good Sized Xbox 360 Collection.
I Give To You, The Find Of A Lifetime. There Were A Bunch Of These Being Tossed, And I Had To Take One Because I Was Dying Laughing. How Does That Even Happen Lol
Idumpster
sold my entry model 2009 MPB for $300 on eBay 2 years ago. so this is really nice ... never throw out Apple products folks!
Found A Brand New Samsung Galaxy Note10+ And S10 In A Dumpster Last Night
Was 160 Chocolate Bars A Good Enough Valentines Day Present?
It Was Sitting In The Rain, But So Far So Good!
Tonight’s Haul!
Those dog ramps are so flippin expensive. Wanted to get some for our disabled cat, and had to diy instead
Found This Mcm Coffee Table Next To The Trash Bin Today! Just Cleaned It Up And Sold It For $350
Well, I Guess This Is My Magnum Opus Of Dumpster Diving...
My Local Gamestop Can Be Pretty Nice…
Moving Out Of College. Someone Threw Out A Working TV. It's Just Missing A Remote.
You can probably download a phone app remote these days. I run my entire home entertainment system from a tablet based remote control app
My Greatest Trash Find Of All Time Someone Threw Out A Ball Gown
This Week's Haul! Second Raid Of The Garden Center And Huge Surprises From A Sports Clearance Store!
Well I'm Hooked... Went From How Am I Gonna Eat To What Do I Feel Like!
Just be careful eating that many protein bars if you don't want to clog ye old booty hole.
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And apparently, there is not a single charity, needy person, staff bonus, or any other way of gifting these items for anyone to use - rather than throwing them out. None, none at all, not a single way anyone at that organisation can come up with…
Butter For The Year!
I had something like this recently. A restaurant tossed a whole 50 lb case of 1 lb solid block butter because someone ordered salted butter by mistake and they use unsalted. I sealed it up and froze it. I still have like 12 blocks of it.
Found A Lifetime Supply Of Knives, Spoons, And Forks At Party City
Found These 2 Beauties On The Side Of The Road!
$695 Of Ground Beef
Yes There Is A Dumpster God. I Prayed, I Received!
Found In A Box Of Books By The Curb
Phone In A Bread Box? Had To Save It!
$300+ Retail Groceries: I Got Busted. Details I'm Comments.
The details: I went back the the place that I was so good to me yesterday. I had grabbed the case of green beans (far left) and a couple of loaves of bread when the trash crew wheeled their car around. I panicked and scurried to the car. One of the 2 people tapped on my window, asked "do you want vegetables?" I replied " do you have vegetables?" Person #2 asked me to open the side door and put in a giant bag containing almost every you see here. What awesome decent humane people. I wish them all good things.
Found A Ouija Board Next To A Trash Can Walking Home From Classes. The Cool Thing Is That It Is A Vintage 1960's One That Is In A Rare Larger Size. In Perfect Shape Other Than The Planchette Missing The Plastic Window
Couldn't Believe This Thing Wasn't Broken!
I Found 16,000 Scratch Off Tickets From The Convenience Store, Where You Could Win Snacks And Stuff. Some Jackpots Evidently!
Found This Cool Little Dude Today. He's Probably 2" Tall
Pulled This Recliner Off The Curb And A 3ds Was Lodged In The Back.
Hmmmm….. I would’ve returned the DS. Someone’s probably been looking for it.
Let’s Gooooooooo. Best Snag From The Bins So Far
Neighbor Graduated And Moved Out
Over $100 Worth Of Chocolate!
Found A Gorgeous Entertainment Center In My Building’s Trash—i Would’ve Paid Good Money For This!
New Mini Golf Course Threw Out Extra Grass So I Snagged It
Wtf… I Got Call From A Buddy Who Dives , She Said This Dumpster Had A Bunch Of Wine In It! She Wasn’t Lying, We Recovered Over 70 Bottles And A Couple Packs Of Hard Seltzer’s 😅
This Is The Kind Of Thing That’s Great To Find But Its Also Sickening (No Recalls And Not Expired Until February)
So Much Meat! This Haul Definitely Helped Us Stock Our Freezers. We Smell Test Every Meat And Repackage It Before Freezing. Everything Passed The Smell Test. Ground Beef, Steaks, Roasts! Along With A Lot Of Fresh Fruits And Veggies. The Amount Of Money We Save From Diving Is Absurd
Food that is contaminated with Salmonella or other harmful germs usually looks, tastes, and smells normal. That's why it's important to know how to prevent infection. Salmonella cause far more illnesses than you might suspect.
Kept All This From Going Into The Dumpster. Luckily I Didn’t Have To Dig It Out Lol
Found A Pair Of Balenciagas Sneakers While Dumpster Diving At My University’s Rich Kid Dorm, In My Size
I Saved This Store Mannequin Leg For Months To Bury It In My Neighbors Yard As An April Fools Joke. Worth It
Dinner Fit For A (Dumpster) King!
My Kid's First Night Diving With Me!
Found A 65" Tcl Roku TV In The Roll-Off In Front Of A Renovation At The Mall I Work At. It's Dirty But Works 100%
Had A Yard Sale With All The Things I Found Dumpster Diving
Just Found The Exact Desk I Wanted For My Art Studio In The Alley By The Dumpster!
Yea This Dumpster Diving Is For The Birds! Lol, Free Wine, Fruits And Veg At Aldi And Panera Ain’t Too Bad Either! They Are Next Door To Each Other For Convenience
Smdh at the madness of not donating this food somewhere. Although, I certainly don't begrudge anyone rescuing it.
Hole Foods Employee Took A Picture Of Me While I Was Pulling Out This Haul
Over 2,000 Pounds Of Fresh Pork Being Rejected By The Walmart Distribution Center Because The Sell By Dates Occur When Their Stores Are Closed For Thanksgiving. This Product Will Still Be Safe To Eat For The Next 15 Days But They Won't Even Attempt To Sell. This Will End Up In A Dumpster Today
Ha, I Can Afford Avocado Toast Now!
Saved From The Junk Yard. Zenith X940 Stereo Cabinet. Got For Free On Fb Marketplace And Refinished The Top. The Mechanics Still Work!
You must hit “cscole123” just under the left side of this picture. What they’ve done to this piece of furniture is amazing! It’s just gorgeous.
College Move Out Haul!
Our middle school gets rid of stuff, so long as it is safe we put it out by the curb. Piano, seats, stools, tables, furniture brought in by teachers (principal HATES couches). Never there longer than a day. Saw the guy who got the piano, pushed it up the street, his daughter was SO happy!
Found This In Someone's Trash Earlier This Year
Sweaters, Dresses, Shirts, Suit Jacket, And A New Backpack
Mom Found The Witch Books
I have a couple of those, I had to pay for mine though. Good books for beginners.
Just Saved These 15 Fairly Modern Intel Nuc (Mini Computer) From The Dumpster
Found This In A Tote Full Of Barbie's Being Thrown Away
Found A Big Box Of These Tonight. Definitely The Coolest Find Of The Night
How Do I Store 60 Avocados?
Found This In My Local College Dumpster! Love The Industrial Look
Shame one those folks dumping cats (and other animals). I guess it's too much work to give them somebody for adoption or to bring them to an animal shelter. Doesn't suprise me (anymore)...but still makes me sad.
I wonder how many dumpster cats are actually strays that were left somewhere else or never had a home and got into the dumpster in search of food. Still not good but at least they may have had a chance before.
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Wow what weird species we are. All this waste and people dying of hunger :-(
I’m not sure it’s the species as much as the absolutely twisted system, really.
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When I was 11 in early 80s there used to be a local factory that made accessories for the old ZX Spectrum computer (ram packs, kempston joysticks etc.) and they used to have a few skips out back where they'd throw the ones that failed QC. Me and my mates used to trawl through those on almost a nightly basis looking for ones that just needed a bit of soldering or wires taping up... we'd fix them up and sell them at school. Eventually my mum got called in to see the head teacher cause they thought me making money at that age was wrong and my mum pointed out that one of the main goals of school was to prepare kids for the job market when they left. I was banned from selling them at school but I just used to stand in front of the school gates after school and do the same thing. The profits went into buying me my own games and other computers, and eventually a ride on lawn mower for my next venture, cutting rich people's lawns.
See, now there's a kid showing good business sense!
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What I learned from this- there are way too many truly deplorable people on this planet throwing away living creatures. Those humans need to be thrown away. Absolute trash.
I thought this was going to be a fun thread, but then I saw all the cats. :'-(
My husband was recently hired to help clear out a rental house after the last renters left. Was told he could keep whatever he wanted, pitch the rest. He brought home a brand new intsapot, an old iPad, 5 boxes of unexpired canned goods, and a Nintendo switch with games! How can people just leave this stuff behind?!
Don't listen to Dexter. My husband works for a rental property company. When they clear out a house, it's because the tenant skipped town to avoid rent, they got evicted, or they are in jail. The ones who skip town leave everything, including food in the fridge.
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I'm a cynical old git. A lot of these "hey I found two iphones and a macbook and a OLED TV and a Ferrari with a Rolex in the glovebox" ones.. colour me skeptical.
My brother works in the office of an informatic gear company. He's sometimes called to the warehouse to help when they need to throw out a lot of old things they no longer sell and the usual staff can't handle it all. They will throw hundreds of things in mint condition. Computer towers, screns, beamers, keyboards... Capitalism is absurd.
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It's terrible how many cats are found in dumpsters. It's even more horrible to think about how many cats are not found in time.. :(
Why are stores allowed to throw perfectly good stuff out. Donate it instead.
In fear of being sued, allergies, choking hazards. I used to work for a company that at the end of a day they would let shelters pick up left overs, then a few years later I went back to work for same company and we were no longer allowed to do that we could only throw it away in the bins.
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Absolutely infuriating that people are dumping LIVE animals. I hope they rot and burn in HELL where they belong.
Don't know, but keep looking on the internet and you will find what you are searching for. Maybe put in your town/city/county/state and dumpster diving or a variation of the words together. Good luck hunting.
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I'm guessing most of these dumpsters are on private property, so it probably is.
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New York has a law now that all excess food from grocery stores and food distributors must now be given to charities. California has a similar law in the works. https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/food-policy-snapshot-excess-food-law/
As a Zambian, dumpster diving is risky, you might find your neighbor, at 03 AM, walking out of the TV you scored on your dive. We don't even pick money off the ground, the risk is too high, you'll wake up in the middle of Lake Tanganyika at 01 AM, lol! The point is, we don't dumpster dive, if a brand new iPhone 14, still boxed, has been thrown out, look, admire and walk past, it could be a trap. LOLZ!
I found a full box of white wine once. Next few days were a bit of a blur
I totally approve of recycling and repurposing. And I hope people who dump animals rot in hell. But please beware if the surroundings while diving. I know people who got arrested diving behind restaurants. If you are caught trying to collect discarded food from the bins of stores or restaurants with a “No Trespassing” sign, you can be charged with trespassing and fined for violating the law! Watch for signs and be safe 😊
In the uk things like that don't get thrown away. They get destroyed first so they can't be found and "re sold". I had a few conversations with managers in several shops I worked at as to why we couldn't donate instead of destroying clothes etc. apparently it was a head office rule
I was not expecting the first four examples to be living creatures. People are terrible.
Sometimes that food that in the dumpster is there for good reason-spoiled, contaminated, returned (could've been left unrefrigerated for god only knows how long!) Just because it *looks* good, doesn't always mean it is. Just be careful!
be careful with food products theres many reasons foods trashed sel by dates, ref breakdown and if food hits certain temps law says it must be trashed not given away unless its caught in time. bugs and other contaminates. as well as fresh produce delivered but poor sales other items they go passed holiday or new items or packaging the store gets credit but there required to put it out in trash often employees cannot have them of course after work??/ and sometimes cleaners says clear this out or evictions or people just tired of things and they don't need or care about value . and then there's another thing crooked employees do they put things deliberately in trash to go later or have accomplish get it after store closes i also seen employees that are not too bright and in jobs like cleaning or shipping bosses things anyone can do but don't give good instructions and employee will not think .as for cats and dogs dumped in dumpsters i thing all decent people would tune them up
I lived in an apartment complex, found a complete 4-piece set of dinner plates (4 dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 bowls) that besides being in perfect condition almost perfectly matched our current 4-piece sets! Now we have an 8-piece set! I also found a 3 foot tall plastic Casper ghost; I put white Christmas lights inside him and he lights up the walkway on Halloween night as a bright, friendly ghost! Kids love him!
Two appalling things dumped in this post. First are all the cats. Second is all the food that gets dumped by stores because of best before dates. All supermarkets should be legally obliged to give the ‘waste’ food stuffs to food banks and homeless shelters. Both deplorable acts by human beings.
I live in America and the food waste is crazy at my job we have asked about donating to rescue mission or the like and they say they can't because of laws or maybe getting sued if one gets sick so we let hungry (don't wanna say homeless bc I don't know for a fact they are) folks come after we close and eat what we have left that's already cooked. I don't like throwing away the food but a lot of it still goes in trash. It's really insane if other countries can donate to shelters I don't understand why Americans can't get the same deal worked up. We are kinda lame for wasting all this useful stuff. It's not the person throwing it away fault one can only do what the upper management is telling them to do.
this really just makes me realize dumpster diving is a good hobby,we need more people like this, just professional scavengers
Yesterday I found a skateboard that someone was getting rid of! Trucks fine, wheels fine, new grip tape, and I was like no way am I leaving that out there! So it’s now mine and I’m going to clean it, repaint it and ride it! At age 48! 😁
Dang, I may need to start doing some diving myself. Especially with the Christmas season, there may be unknown treasures being thrown out wastefully!
What kind of idiot dives for food, then just to get a picture of it, throws it all on the floor---including the many, many frozen and refrigerated items!!!!?? MORON! It isn't impressive that you're causing the food to spoil just for your stupid picture!
Use your brain, it doesn't hurt, taking a photo takes seconds. Then you can put your stuff in a freezer.
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Shame one those folks dumping cats (and other animals). I guess it's too much work to give them somebody for adoption or to bring them to an animal shelter. Doesn't suprise me (anymore)...but still makes me sad.
I wonder how many dumpster cats are actually strays that were left somewhere else or never had a home and got into the dumpster in search of food. Still not good but at least they may have had a chance before.
Load More Replies... Wow what weird species we are. All this waste and people dying of hunger :-(
I’m not sure it’s the species as much as the absolutely twisted system, really.
Load More Replies... When I was 11 in early 80s there used to be a local factory that made accessories for the old ZX Spectrum computer (ram packs, kempston joysticks etc.) and they used to have a few skips out back where they'd throw the ones that failed QC. Me and my mates used to trawl through those on almost a nightly basis looking for ones that just needed a bit of soldering or wires taping up... we'd fix them up and sell them at school. Eventually my mum got called in to see the head teacher cause they thought me making money at that age was wrong and my mum pointed out that one of the main goals of school was to prepare kids for the job market when they left. I was banned from selling them at school but I just used to stand in front of the school gates after school and do the same thing. The profits went into buying me my own games and other computers, and eventually a ride on lawn mower for my next venture, cutting rich people's lawns.
See, now there's a kid showing good business sense!
Load More Replies... What I learned from this- there are way too many truly deplorable people on this planet throwing away living creatures. Those humans need to be thrown away. Absolute trash.
I thought this was going to be a fun thread, but then I saw all the cats. :'-(
My husband was recently hired to help clear out a rental house after the last renters left. Was told he could keep whatever he wanted, pitch the rest. He brought home a brand new intsapot, an old iPad, 5 boxes of unexpired canned goods, and a Nintendo switch with games! How can people just leave this stuff behind?!
Don't listen to Dexter. My husband works for a rental property company. When they clear out a house, it's because the tenant skipped town to avoid rent, they got evicted, or they are in jail. The ones who skip town leave everything, including food in the fridge.
Load More Replies... I'm a cynical old git. A lot of these "hey I found two iphones and a macbook and a OLED TV and a Ferrari with a Rolex in the glovebox" ones.. colour me skeptical.
My brother works in the office of an informatic gear company. He's sometimes called to the warehouse to help when they need to throw out a lot of old things they no longer sell and the usual staff can't handle it all. They will throw hundreds of things in mint condition. Computer towers, screns, beamers, keyboards... Capitalism is absurd.
Load More Replies... It's terrible how many cats are found in dumpsters. It's even more horrible to think about how many cats are not found in time.. :(
Why are stores allowed to throw perfectly good stuff out. Donate it instead.
In fear of being sued, allergies, choking hazards. I used to work for a company that at the end of a day they would let shelters pick up left overs, then a few years later I went back to work for same company and we were no longer allowed to do that we could only throw it away in the bins.
Load More Replies... Absolutely infuriating that people are dumping LIVE animals. I hope they rot and burn in HELL where they belong.
Don't know, but keep looking on the internet and you will find what you are searching for. Maybe put in your town/city/county/state and dumpster diving or a variation of the words together. Good luck hunting.
Load More Replies... I'm guessing most of these dumpsters are on private property, so it probably is.
Load More Replies... New York has a law now that all excess food from grocery stores and food distributors must now be given to charities. California has a similar law in the works. https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/food-policy-snapshot-excess-food-law/
As a Zambian, dumpster diving is risky, you might find your neighbor, at 03 AM, walking out of the TV you scored on your dive. We don't even pick money off the ground, the risk is too high, you'll wake up in the middle of Lake Tanganyika at 01 AM, lol! The point is, we don't dumpster dive, if a brand new iPhone 14, still boxed, has been thrown out, look, admire and walk past, it could be a trap. LOLZ!
I found a full box of white wine once. Next few days were a bit of a blur
I totally approve of recycling and repurposing. And I hope people who dump animals rot in hell. But please beware if the surroundings while diving. I know people who got arrested diving behind restaurants. If you are caught trying to collect discarded food from the bins of stores or restaurants with a “No Trespassing” sign, you can be charged with trespassing and fined for violating the law! Watch for signs and be safe 😊
In the uk things like that don't get thrown away. They get destroyed first so they can't be found and "re sold". I had a few conversations with managers in several shops I worked at as to why we couldn't donate instead of destroying clothes etc. apparently it was a head office rule
I was not expecting the first four examples to be living creatures. People are terrible.
Sometimes that food that in the dumpster is there for good reason-spoiled, contaminated, returned (could've been left unrefrigerated for god only knows how long!) Just because it *looks* good, doesn't always mean it is. Just be careful!
be careful with food products theres many reasons foods trashed sel by dates, ref breakdown and if food hits certain temps law says it must be trashed not given away unless its caught in time. bugs and other contaminates. as well as fresh produce delivered but poor sales other items they go passed holiday or new items or packaging the store gets credit but there required to put it out in trash often employees cannot have them of course after work??/ and sometimes cleaners says clear this out or evictions or people just tired of things and they don't need or care about value . and then there's another thing crooked employees do they put things deliberately in trash to go later or have accomplish get it after store closes i also seen employees that are not too bright and in jobs like cleaning or shipping bosses things anyone can do but don't give good instructions and employee will not think .as for cats and dogs dumped in dumpsters i thing all decent people would tune them up
I lived in an apartment complex, found a complete 4-piece set of dinner plates (4 dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 bowls) that besides being in perfect condition almost perfectly matched our current 4-piece sets! Now we have an 8-piece set! I also found a 3 foot tall plastic Casper ghost; I put white Christmas lights inside him and he lights up the walkway on Halloween night as a bright, friendly ghost! Kids love him!
Two appalling things dumped in this post. First are all the cats. Second is all the food that gets dumped by stores because of best before dates. All supermarkets should be legally obliged to give the ‘waste’ food stuffs to food banks and homeless shelters. Both deplorable acts by human beings.
I live in America and the food waste is crazy at my job we have asked about donating to rescue mission or the like and they say they can't because of laws or maybe getting sued if one gets sick so we let hungry (don't wanna say homeless bc I don't know for a fact they are) folks come after we close and eat what we have left that's already cooked. I don't like throwing away the food but a lot of it still goes in trash. It's really insane if other countries can donate to shelters I don't understand why Americans can't get the same deal worked up. We are kinda lame for wasting all this useful stuff. It's not the person throwing it away fault one can only do what the upper management is telling them to do.
this really just makes me realize dumpster diving is a good hobby,we need more people like this, just professional scavengers
Yesterday I found a skateboard that someone was getting rid of! Trucks fine, wheels fine, new grip tape, and I was like no way am I leaving that out there! So it’s now mine and I’m going to clean it, repaint it and ride it! At age 48! 😁
Dang, I may need to start doing some diving myself. Especially with the Christmas season, there may be unknown treasures being thrown out wastefully!
What kind of idiot dives for food, then just to get a picture of it, throws it all on the floor---including the many, many frozen and refrigerated items!!!!?? MORON! It isn't impressive that you're causing the food to spoil just for your stupid picture!
Use your brain, it doesn't hurt, taking a photo takes seconds. Then you can put your stuff in a freezer.
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