Originally Posted by slowleak

Your dump must be different than my dump, here the help get to anything good and they search your truck on the way out to be sure you didn't steal anything. The dump master out front goes through every truck as you hit the scale at the front gate heading back out. Nothing leaves, and if you intend to keep it, you better point it out to them on the way in or they'll accuse you of stealing it. He tried to tell me I stole a pair of truck rims I had in the back of the truck one day. I tossed them in for extra weight in the snow. I had taken in a truck load of bagged trash and only the rims were left when I weighed out.

There's no chance at all of leaving with a bike. From what I hear the employees all get the good stuff, most probably just scrap it.

Where I used to live I had the guys that picked up the trash bring me bikes from time to time, a bike for a six pack of beer was the deal. They got a lot of beer and I got a lot of nice bikes. The city changed trash companies and that ended years ago.

They also made a point of mailing out fliers telling everyone that it's a crime to trash pick, if it's out at the curb, it belongs to the township. regardless of whether or not you have the homeowner's permission. They enforce it too.