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RE: Living Free, Anybody can do this! Dumpsterdive Introduction.
Is it technically illegal? Over here in the USA it is, though some cities or countys will turn a blind eye to dumpster diving.
Is it technically illegal? Over here in the USA it is, though some cities or countys will turn a blind eye to dumpster diving.
In Germany it is technically illegal as well.
So far noone has ever been sentenced for dumpster diving though...
But many of the supermarkets lock their dumpsters to prevent it :(
In Germany,that's the most funniest for dumpster diving! All the time "Aber ,Aber, das ist diebstal!" Hihi they got everytime so flustered when they caught me. In regular places I live in Germany,they even installed a cage at the rewe! We were getting a full car load everytime though and feeding a small village with it haha.. I love it. The first trash I looked in in Germany was winter and we had ducks and rabbits and 21 bottles of Bailey's, nice Christmas that was!
some places out here dump bleach or other contaminants over any food they throw out.
yeh i think it happens once every blue moon (in EUR) but i know also that its properganda, because of the few law suits that have "apparently" happened in the past. Then everyone believes it always happens and it becomes the reality, thus not ever going to the local dumpsters lol. Seriously i have used over 1000 dumpsters and have once or twice found a bleach bottle in there.. but bleach bottles also get dropped and broke and thrown away just like a nice cake does sometimes :) i dont really think about is it legal or not, right is right and wrong is wrong- the words of an old african man i met once.
in lueneburg some friends had to pay a 280 euro fine when they got caught by police!!
I think anything is illegal if it something that's positive! It's actually possible though to get agreements also, yesterday I went to the organic shop that I go to get vit tabs,toothpaste etc and I asked them where their trash was because I was looking for it. They told me where it was and even what time it was put in the compressing container, just rocked up there now and I was too late lol.