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Joyce M. Coomer offers personal comments on Dumpster Diving Writer offers benefits of Dumpster Diving but only if treasure seekers follow certain rules. She says "There are people who will open every sack in a dumpster and dig through it like a hen scratching for worms. They can and do make an unbelievable mess. They should make sure anything they fling out of the dumpster that they don't want should be put back into the dumpster." Click on headline for complete personal commentary By Joyce M. Coomer I frequently opine that someone could run a good junk store with items removed from dumpsters in this town. More often than you'd think, many still-useful items are callously tossed into a dumpster, without any regard to their condition nor whether or not someone else could utilize the items, maybe even really need the items. I've retrieved useful items out of the dumpster behind the courthouse annex -- chairs, small shelves, stuffed animals (for cat toys), glassware, golf clubs -- and have been appalled at the sight of other useful items that I frequently see in there -- beds, dressers, chests-of-drawers, counter tops, plumbing items, rugs of assorted sizes, lumber, children's playhouses, toys of all sorts, family photo albums, books, records, new clothing with tags still attached, items of all sorts still in the original packaging (unopened), Christmas decorations from trees to wreaths to ornaments. The list is nearly endless. If I see an item that I think someone I know might be interested in, I give them a call. I called one friend and told her about bags of clothing that were in the dumpster, and she called someone else, who removed a pick-up truck full of useful items from the dumpster -- clothing, dishes, pots, pans, kitchen utensils, other household items -- and took them to people who lived in Eastern Kentucky and needed such things. Another lady retrieved a twin bed I told her about and her husband transformed it into a lovely daybed/settee (or whatever such things are called these days). Unfortunately, not everyone is like that. There are people who will open every sack in a dumpster and dig through it like a hen scratching for worms. They can and do make an unbelievable mess. They should make sure anything they fling out of the dumpster that they don't want should be put back into the dumpster. Mandatory trash pickup in the entire county wouldn't prevent dumpster diving and its attendant messiness. I don't think anything would other than locking tops on all dumpsters, but determined individuals would simply utilize a crowbar to break or remove a lock. Perhaps if society as a whole became un-infatuated with "new" and became infatuated with "useful" there would be less waste, fewer reasons for anyone to go dumpster-diving, less incentive to basically be nosy. There are places in town where items that are still useful but that you no longer need can be donated. There are resale shops that might have a market for those same items. Before you toss any item into the trash, assess its usefulness. Is it broken beyond repair or just scratched and dented and you consider it "unsightly"? Is it simply dusty, perhaps with a little surface dirt, or so grimy it would take a day's work to clean it? Can it be utilized some other way than its original purpose? Tossing some small item that is still useful into a dumpster may not seem like much at the time. But when 200 people toss all sorts of items into a dumpster, that dumpster fills up quickly. When the contents of that dumpster are taken to a landfill, that landfill fills up. Think about how many landfills there must be and how quickly they must be filling up before thoughtlessly discarding still-useful items. There are always options. Think before you act and utilize different options. Only by becoming aware and staying fully aware of the consequences of our actions -- each and every one -- will things be changed. Joyce M. Coomer 270-384-4495 This story was posted on 2018-06-17 16:55:06
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