I sometimes hang out at the local county recycling center and help cable techinicians to off load in my pickup versus the dumpster. They are just happy that they do not have to throw the scrap up and in the dumpster. Also in large towns cable services are sub-contracted out....look around for those sub-contractors and dumpster dive 2 or 3 times a week ....the subcontractors have to scrap the cable, connectors etc as part of the contract. Lets help those sub-contractors out by having them reduce dumpster fees.