Originally Posted by well biked
If it was thrown out by the legitimate owner, would it not be logical that it would have been done by the person that lives there? I don't see why you didn't do that in the first place-
That's exactly the problem. In most areas in the US, people dump garbage anywhere they can that's away from their own homes; it's not reasonable to assume that even if the original owner dumped it, he dumped it near his own home - asking the neighbors won't likely do any good. I live in an area where the weekly garbage collection will accept even large furniture, but that doesn't reduce the amount of stuff illegally dumped on and near my block (I live at the edge of an induastrial area - we get everything from old tires to old car seats to broken industrial-sized photocopiers and matresses and heavy equipment, construction debris, and on and on dumped on our sidewalks and curbs around here)