Just throwing this out there, because it's something I'd not heard of before, and can't find any reference to it with a search here...
Going past a local excavator's yard, I've seen a Waste Management dumpster there with a banner hanging on it, Boy Scout Troop xxx. Dunno what that's about in particular.
Yesterday (Saturday) I'm passing my local Wendy's hamburger location, and there are two dunpsters in the parking lot. They're apparently replacing the facade on the building. Somebody in a pickup truck has the gate open on one of the dumpsters and is loading out all the sheet metal that's been torn off the building.
Today (yes, Sunday) I stopped there for a burger, and they were working, right outside the drive-thru windows. (Probably less business to disrupt on a Sunday.) Can't even pull up close enough to the window to pay or get the food. One of the construction guys is standing there, passing the money in to the cashier, the change back to me, and then the bag with the food. So I asked him, "Hey, what's your policy on the scrap metal?"
He tells me they're giving it to the Boy Scouts.
I guess that explains the guy loading his truck from the one dumpster.
Just a couple of things for the discussion here--
A) I didn't know the Scouts were competing with the rest of the dumpster divers for scrap. Did you?
And,
B) It comes up often enough on this board about whether it's ok to dumpster dive on construction sites. Apparently, if you do so without checking first, you might be taking something that's been earmarked for some non-profit organization.
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