Comment on YSK about Sketch Toy
lando55@lemmy.world 10 months agoThis is a very interesting point that raises a lot of questions; does throwing something in the trash by definition relinquish my ownership? What if I throw something away by accident? Where is the demarcation between my owning something and WM taking ownership? Does it then pass on to whomever owns the landfill, or subsequently whoever might dig it out of the trash? You’ve done gone and wrinkled my brain for the weekend.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t this why dumpster diving is illegal in many places?
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As far as I know that is usually mostly a liability problem. Scavenging can be dangerous in the activity itself, and you don’t know “why” someone chose to throw away that “perfectly useable” thing. Maybe you get lucky and the reason was dumb, but there could be a very good reason. Either way the dump tells you not to, so when you get hurt doing it, it’s on you.