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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