Dumpster diving is illegal, but why? It's trash. If I feel I can use it and keep it from a landfill, let me have it.
My mother wouldn't ever dumpster dive, but she would take things out of the model mobile homes we never bought. She told us to do it too because they were "gifts". Word got around about her and we started being followed when viewing the models.
As an adult, we lived in an apartment complex with tons of students. May was my favorite month! You won't believe what they threw out


Even managed to snag a drunk raccoon, just in time, the truck was about 50 feet away.