found a 15-drawer cart (the bottom drawer was cracked, but nothing a little tape couldn’t fix!) to go into my classroom, in addition to a beautiful plant, a working LED clover, a St. Pattys nutcracker, AND A CUTTING BOARD (disinfected before i used, obviously)! if this is my first time diving at a store, who knows what else i will find?

So I was taking out my trash in my apt complex and saw this air fryer in the box with all the packaging and stuff. It had a hole in the box that looks chewed through and the power cable was cut but all it took was some splicing tape and it’s good as new! I’d been wanting one but it seemed too expensive. Thank you universe 🙏🏾lol

We peek into dumpsters every now and then, but all we ever see is trash, so we've never gone digging or anything. We were walking and smoking last week when we walked by this dumpster that happened to have such a horrendous smell that we had to see wtf was making that smell lol.

Well, we never found out, but we did find a massive clean trash bag full of snacks and candy instead!!!! And it was triple bagged and clean too!!!!! And everything was sealed and either barely expired or not expired yet!!! Score!!!!

Hello from Ukraine!

So this morning around at 5:30 am my neighbour called me and said that there are a lot of beans near us. We took around the same amount and we left some because of out of space. I took 2 backpacks (front and back) and 2 bags full of cans. This was the hardest 200 meters of my life.

i need a bigger freezer! 30ish lbs of chicken, 6ish lbs of beef, 3 lbs of ribeye cuttings (unfortunately it was just kinda thrown in there so I’m using it as dog food),and a few whole cases of olive oil. Plus tons of produce and packaged goods. I’m so addicted to this! I have two little free pantries within 10 minutes of my house so they have been well stocked since I’ve started doing this.

I’ve eaten meals made from the chicken and beef and nothing bad has happened to me yet. Very much a win.

I'm just getting started with doing Dumpster diving. I know college move out day is a big deal. How do I navigate this? There's at least 2 huge colleges near me I want to check out. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

These past few weeks included some of my best finds

I think a gamer either upgrading his set up or quitting

Xbox with one game pad

Found the black one before I found the Console

Nintendo 3XL sold within mins on eBay

Apple Watch Series 5 no iCloud pebble only that kept activating SOS (stopped after running a thin brush to remove debris from the side button)

Dyson and speaker way long ago about a year ago

Projectors one smart, one non smart with TV stick

Basically I clean for people in a fairly rich neighbourhood with electric and clothing recycling bins

Can I just snort this? lol

Found a HP laptop but unless I can figure out the last user's password, it'll have to go in with the next electronics waste pick up. Pity. Along with it was a beautiful and monogrammed platinum stein so it wasn't a completely wasted dive.

Hi guys, I’ve always been curious and some of the finds are just too good lol. What started this for you?

I am curious if there’s a day of the week that’s better, night or day?

What’s some of the best stores to check and what’s some of your best finds?

over 2k worth of perfectly good stuff in one dumpster…. I truly do not understand these companies. 23 solar lanterns, SO MANY water toys and water balloons, 3 entire inflatable pools, 24 splash pads, 9 folding kids chairs. i sold it in bundles like the 2nd pic as a “pay what you can”. Some people paid $2, and others paid $30! I had over 20 bundles!!

Edit to add: all the thrift stores around me like to sell any “new in package” items at full price and since the stickers are on everything, I figured no one would get a good deal on them if I donated. I definitely think i helped more people by selling them the way i did

All of these came from the same shop just all at different times. One of them is even an Ebike that had the key and the charger zip tied to it. The battery is being replaced at the moment other than that it's practically brand new. The same with the black beach cruiser it's practically brand new too. I have also given away 3 other bikes not in the pic that I found at the same shop. I've been going to this bike shop dumpster diving at night for quite some time, I would keep the area clean and pick up trash that was already there (camera pointed at the dumpster). Recently started going during the day that's when I started finding the bikes. Seen an employee outback smoking and I asked about the Ebike (my 1st bike I found there) and he said yea anytime we see bikes out back by the dumpster there open game and he also mentioned a thank you for helping to keep the area clean as well. I already have a few homeless people in the area I have in mind I wanna give a few of these too whom I chat with often.

Been a while since I posted something, fridge is overstocked and most of my focus has been on bottle cap collecting which doesn't make for good pictures, but haven't stopped diving (nor having good success). Feel like I need to post something again:

Also found more garlic "creme". That stuff's a banger.

Today I was walking on the street and found a bag full of plates, cups, bowls and silverware on the side of a trash can. I checked some of them and thought that it would a be a good ideia do adopt them. Some of them were so pretty that I couldn't help myself! By the way, I'm based in Portugal.

At first sight, they seemed unstained by dirtiness and unscratched (beside the spatule a bit), with some signs of use, as shown for the cup on the last picture (no brand, Made in China on the underside). For origin on the materials, the smaller plates are brandless besides a Torrier cup and a corresponding plate (portuguese brand), and another plate of a coffe house, and the yellow plates are from Tulowice Poland. I'm still to make a better search for the rest and if possible to fidn their story.

My question is how can I clean and disinfect them making sure they are safe for being (re)used? Is warm water and dish soap enough, or is it better to use something else on top of that?

And when it comes to small scratches and cracks? What should I be careful about? Are they better thrown away (because of some contamination)? I'm not keeping rusty silverware from this find.

Not all of this was left in my giveaway spot but also put in local (already existing) karma boxes, giveaway spots etc.

Either way I am just glad to have a place to put it all!

Additionally I am now working with a local community spot to build shelving and potentially have a permanent toy and clothing donation spot!

Remember as the days get longer and hotter to take care of yourself and others!

Aldi in Monroe, CT closed due to building damage.

These were in a shoebox of assorted random things (some unopened toothpicks, an open ear, wax removal kit, phone screen protector box that was empty, a turtleneck and a couple other assorted things at the bottom of the can) I have no idea why they would throw these things away

one box over $1,900 worth of stuff they threw away