Went for less than half price.

Got a 50 gallon water heater for $50.

Anyway went by again around back and looked in the dumpster and got 2 chainsaws without bars and a weedeater without a guard on it.

They all worked and wore them out and threw them away after several years.

I think they are just chucking that stuff out rather than dealing with it.

CBC Marketplace is an 'investigative report' on where the Amazon returns go  in nearby Toronto....most goes to landfill,some, some clothes go to offshore as 'rags'.

well worth watching, disgusting really the WASTE... I suspect most returned goods end up like this...sad....

I did score a roll of wallpaper 35 years ago,took 2 of us to GRUNT to get into truck. WP is 50" wide and a zillion feet long( 3' diameter), STILL have lots. great for drawing out full size..will it work... projects !

 There a guy at Wooster, OH. that deals in nothing but Amazon returns. I have been told that people stand in line at one of his outlets to get in, they also have guards that are off duty police officers inside and at the door to keep fights down. He also has a store next door with the more expensive stuff and a warehouse that there is dozens of Amazon semi trailers setting at, also sell on line.

 Amazing, here they have to post guards at the local lake launch ramp for the same reason, something way out of whack. It's no wonder we are in the shape we are in.

Tadams, is that place up near Cleveland?  I remember seeing something on Youtube about it.

About 50 miles south Cleveland.

When I worked at Lowe's  and a season ended you would be supprise at what went into the dumpster off course it was a compactor so it all got smashed

I get my steel, legally, from a scrap bin

Saw a great deal, 6' sections of 7" square tubing, 5/16" wall thickness.LOTS of them..

STILL trying to figure out WHAT I can use them for. BTW they're mighty dang HEAVY

Started with a old AC HD 14. Moved up to HD 16, and finally a Fiat Allis 30. Along with the pet HD 21 he would use on other jobs in the afternoon and was back up for the dump.

Many stories about chainsaws or what ever that was not seen until the dozer had run over it.  

hmm ,had to google 'rocket stove' ,Interesting ,but this tubing weighs almost 30# per foot !!! I'd need wheels for the stove and lord help anyone if it tipped over !!!

6' section weighs about 180#s....(2-3 bags of 'mix'),or me with my head cut off ?

  I bet that they didn't get into fist fights, working people rarely do, they have been taught better than that.

Our society is gripped by 'disposability' syndrome.  On one hand, they cry about the environment, while the other hand throws things into a trash can, or worse yet, out the window of a moving car.  The concept of 'recycling' is nothing more to most than a symbol, and a 'do gooder than thou' facade.

Recycling is about both recovering resource value, and reducing pollution, and it occurs in stages:

1) Returning to service-  things are discarded that can very often be returned to service as they were originally intended, with very little effort.  Repair, restore it to it's prior function.

2)  Repurpose-  make it into something useful.  It may have been a weed trimmer, but the bottom part is toast.  It can become an RC boat engine, or a gas-powered die grinder.

3)  Use the parts for restoration or repair of other items.  The bottom's busted, the top is still good, find one with a busted top and a good bottom, and make it work, now it's in Category 1.

4)  Reuse the materials for other functions.  A broken bicycle has some wonderful metal tubing, gears and chain, rims with spokes and hubs, that can be used individually or groups to make great stuff.  A garage-door opener uses similar chain and a tiny sprocket.  A cordless drill whose batteries are junk, can be powered by an old wall-wart supply, driving the garage door sprocket and bicycle chain to open and close a driveway gate...  Cut up some old washing machines, refrigerators, and use the sheet steel to make a media-blast cabinet.  Use the perforated stainless steel drum of a dryer to make a neat little fire pit.  Salvage the gears, belts, motors and sheaves for projects.

5) Separate out the materials, and use them as raw.  Melt aluminum extrusions into ingots with a homemade furnace, sand-cast replacement parts or other neat stuff.  Heat up recyclable plastics, and form them into useful stuff.

6)Deliver what you can't use, to recycling.  Take home hardware and electricals to the ReStore.

I sold a house last Thursday to a cash buyer. He called me the day before the closing to ask if he could get a key that morning. I dropped off one on the kitchen counter at eleven assuming he wanted to measure etc. for getting materials. Went by about 4 pm and there's a dumpster in the driveway. He and two young guys had removed all the carpet which was a year old and stripping out everything else he didn't think looked like new. Went by today and the are ripping off the vinyl siding and installed a new front door.

Remodeling his dream home? No, he's going to rent it. I guess some people grew up different from me.

Why he watches the TV shows on how be modern  and you got to have the latest color. Everybody know appliances the wrong color just don't work right. Why nobody but home destroyer would rent one without stainless in the kitchen this year.   

So see  Gary you could got a $100,000 more for the house if you had done this $150,000 remodel before you sold it.

My wife has been watching those shows.  I sure hope she knows she gets to pay with her money if she has to up date things. But the people looking at a house they cannot afford to begin with, and then just have to change carpet to hardwood or they cannot live there.