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Agreed. This is a problem in pretty much every mid- to large-sized city. I see homeless people digging through trash all the time in the dumpster behind my apartment building here in Minneapolis. Once last summer, somebody illegally dumped an old chair in the alley behind my building and sure enough, a few hours later I saw a homeless man dragging it away.
This is a particular problem in the bottle-return-rebate states: Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (10¢, baby!), New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Last edited by Dawn.Davenport; 01-19-2015 at 08:51 AM..
In San Diego the homeless and Mexicans in pickup trucks would essentially roam the alleys. The homeless would get into the recycle bins and the Mexicans took whatever junk was left out in the back and loaded it up onto their pickups. It was actually pretty nice as it made it very easy to get rid of anything you wanted. Old bikes, appliances, mattresses, clothes, a coach soaked in rat urine and feces that had been sitting in a garage for years, piles of disgusting carpet scraps, etc... Literally anything you put out would be gone within an hour or two.
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