Originally Posted by
wahoonc
We sort of have a "tip shop", the shop at the top of my road is the office/shop for a small garbage trucking company. He collects things from the trash and puts them in the shop, he also attends auctions and buys the leftovers. Makes very good money at it. He told me one day that the profit from the shop covers the cost of his entire overhead!
Unfortunately much of our trash hauling has been taken over by large contract carriers and everything they pick up goes straight to the tip/landfill/dump and they DO NOT ALLOW any sort of picking, in fact you can be arrested and charged with Criminal Tresspass if you get caught taking anything from the dump.
Aaron
That's similar to the situation here. We don't have a dump, we have a landfill. It is huge, and from outside it looks like a grass covered hill, so we don't have to look at our waste. The landfill produces methane, which is burned to produce electricity. There's no way people could climb it to find stuff to sell. What goes into the landfill stays in the landfill....unless it seeps into the groundwater.