Cities with homeless diving in dumpster of your backyard

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by dalparadise

Those are humpsters.

dipsters

[peasantgirl]

What exactly is the "problem"? You begrudge them the stuff that you didn't want and literally discarded in the trash? They have practically nothing but, by God, it's YOUR trash and they can't have it? SMH

And don't give me a line about "identity theft" because 1) nobody's mentioned it til now, and 2) it's typically not homeless people stealing your info out of the trash.

You complainers just hate to be reminded that you have so much while others suffer. It's called guilt. Deal with it and leave these people, who are trying to SURVIVE, alone.

[Gantz]

In Brooklyn its mostly the older Asians looking for recycling cans, I don't think they are homeless.

We do have a lot of homeless people here, a lot of new ones that seem to be white people from the Midwest. I have no idea why the f they all haven't gone to Cali yet. Its winter here...

[joeyg2014]

Originally Posted by Jason_show

San Francisco
Portland
Chicago
NYC
Boston
LA

I live relatively close to Boston and have been a truck delivery driver in Boston, driving behind buildings to the loading docks where dumpsters are located and have never seen homeless people crawling through dumpsters. I also see far less homeless people in Boston than I did in NYC, San Francisco, and pretty much every other city I've ever been to.

I drove in NYC as well and NYC by far has the most garbage pickers I've ever seen.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by GalacticDragonfly

I've heard the term before (rarely), although the last time I've heard it, it was about lower-class children playing in or with dumpsters.

Very common practice in the Portland, OR neighborhood from which I recently just moved. My friends who owned a home there had to keep their recycling bin locked because the homeless people would try to search through it to collect bottles to return to the nearest grocery store for cash redemption.

The problem was, the homeless people didn't just try to collect the bottles, which my friends didn't discard there anyway although some neighbors did, but the vagrants would try to camp out in their yard and use it as a public toilet. It was a problem for everyone with a backyard and a dumpster.

I lived in an apartment building and that was a problem where the the tenants would go through the bins which were used to recycle empties and anything usable. Other dumpsters behind restaurants and stores in the area that sold anything worthwhile for the taking were consistently hit by dumpster divers. Dumpster diving is alive and well and it's in people's backyards as much as anyplace. I guess it all depends upon where you live.

I recall an anonymous author writing about his dumpster diving adventures in the local free newspaper and where the best neighborhoods for dumpster diving were. Usually it was the more upscale areas. This was no teenager either.