• @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5521 hours ago

    Dumpster diving. Doesn’t matter if it’s food or merchandise. It should be illegal to lock a dumpster or willfully destroy usable goods.

    • Bahnd Rollard
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      18 hours ago

      Locking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen’t get into them. To quote the National Parks service,

      “There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.

      • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        712 hours ago

        Most businesses lock the dumpsters because trash service is expensive, and if you don’t lock them people will pull up with a pickup bed full of trash and fill them up.

    • @MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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      1121 hours ago

      You’ve never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn’t mind so much

        • @gerbler@lemmy.world
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          17 hours ago

          Enforcing that would take a lot more money than a padlock.

          A better idea would be to charge businesses for the downstream costs of externalities like waste. Make them self-enforce by making it more expensive to dump recyclable or reusable materials.

    • socsa
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      418 hours ago

      Dumpster diving laws are more about trespassing and removing liability anyway.