ONE MANS CRAP

For many years people used to take their unwanted belongings to certain places around the area where they knew that someone else might want what ever it was, as long as 'it' wasn't trashed. Very often a person would dump one thing and come away with something else, speakers, records, TVs, radios, furniture, books, whatever. The point is, your useful chuck-aways had a good chance of gaining a new life and home elsewhere.
If you tried to do this now you would risk getting arrested and/or fined for dumping, and if you didn't get in trouble, your leavings would end up in the back of a dustcart, called in by a zealous jobsworth who scoots around all day on his regulation council mo-ped, or more sinisterly, by a no-face at the business end of a CCTV camera.
In places where people traditionally left items for others there are now warnings not to 'dump rubbish', the threat of fines being the result. Picking items up can also be a dodgy enough past time in its self, picking up something out of a skip is ridiculously, an arrestable offence, "oi, don't take that thing and make use of it because we want to tip it into a landfill", for pities sake.
It really shows up this and many other councils so called ' green eco-credentials' for the self serving nonsense they are.