Goedjn spake thus:

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:58:39 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:

"Beloved Leader" wrote in message

The woman who supervises the dump takes a dim view of this personal
recycling. She yells at me when she sees me in there, so I've had to
stop helping myself to the swag. It's a shame, too, as there is a
mountain of decent stuff that ought to be free for the taking.

There are some silly laws that say once something is in the dump, it must
stay there. Our town used to have an area where you could put unwanted
stuff for others to take, but no more.

I suspect that this is a regulation, not a law.
And it's probably because the people running the
dump are absolutely convinced that some ****head
is going to haul a gas-powered appliance out of the
dump, cut their finger, have the appliance blow
up, (explaining why it was in the dump in the
first place) and then sue them.

What you need to do is set up a non-profit junkyard.

Like Urban Ore, in Berkeley, CA, which, while not exactly a "junkyard",
is a store with items that would otherwise be in the dump. There are
many places like it sprouting up all over the country, and, I'm sure,
the world. I've gotten all kinds of good stuff there.

Interestingly, UO started as an operation *at the dump* way back in the
good old days, where people would retrieve potentially useful items
before they were bulldozed under, lay them on tables, and you could go
and take them for free. I heard that this system lasted a couple of
years before it was shut down by the "sanitary landfill" authorities.


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