There are some guys who do this in my neighborhood every trash-day morning. They drive through the neighborhood and collect bottles and cans. I don’t have a problem with this, but where I used to live, it would sometimes unnerve me. We had a dumpster (and small walled garbage area). Sometimes I’d encounter a startled “dumpster diver” early in the morning, and it always frightened me because I didn’t know if they were doing something illegal (like identity fraud). I don’t care if someone takes bottles and cans. But the last thing I wanted was to give a person committing an illegal act a reason to fear me.

I don’t have a problem with it, but the trash company sure does. We get mailing on a regular basis telling us to call the police on scavengers. We don’t.

There’s an old guy who comes by our marina and does this too. Nice guy. Helps me up the ramp when it’s icy. Has one of those throat thingies from throat cancer or whatever it is. None of us care, especially since there is no recycling at the marina and otherwise we’d have to drive to the center.

Civil Disobedience indeed!