Yup. It is, oddly, theft. Private Eye had someone done for doing just
that, I believe.
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Subject: [data-protection] "Dumpster-diving" - is it illegal?
A good Friday afternoon question.
Is the act of going through another person's - or company's - rubbish
and removing items illegal in itself?
It seems that what you do afterwards with the items retrieved might well
be. A quick web search turned up the case of King v DPP, where a
stalker was penalised on the basis of the Prevention of Harrassment Act,
but here there was no indication that the act of removal of items from
household rubbish bags was an illegal act - unlike the resulting
harrassment of his victim.
I had a vague idea that rubbish continues to belong to you until it is
removed by an approved authority, usually the council, but so far I
haven't been able to confirm it. Maybe some of the fine brains out
there know otherwise?
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