Re: Dumpster Diving - Legality vs Reality and health

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Getting off topic here, but, for instance, it is a big no-no for an
employee at JPL to dumpster dive at JPL (and, I can assure you, lots of
interesting stuff winds up in the dumpsters here).  Something along the
lines of:
1) Insuring that there's no incentive to "throw away" valuable stuff, and
then come back later to scavenge it (or have a buddy scavenge it for you).
2) The waste contractor conceivably sorts and recycles some of the stuff
(for sale), and factors that income into the bid price for providing the
service. (Certainly an issue for the white paper recycling bins.. someone
actually was going around emptying the recycle bins, hauling the stuff
home, and then giving it to their local charitable organization...)

Granted, we're in that sort of government rules area, and they are pretty
strict to avoid not only impropriety, but also the appearance of impropriety.



Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Nick Andrews by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Years ago, when NMSU had their own dump in a n area near my house, we used
> to get chased out regularly by the guy in charge of the place.  I think they
> were more concerned about people strewing broken glass and paper everywhere,
> or injury liability.  Of course I now wish I'd paid more attention to junk