College apartment complex

[blacksheep4289]

My wife is the director of a apartment complex for students. She currently has over 700 residents. We have 12 dumpsters throughout the property and trash runs Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Needless to say I go take a look in each the night before. I've only lived here a month and have already scored a laptop, broken xbox one, 4 nice bookshelves, and a fan. Looking forward to the May 15th. It's move out day for the summer. These cans will be over flowing with goodies!

 

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[BagLady]

What a great idea. It's the same with storage lockers. Most of the kids don't care how much is spent on what. It's a throw away society.
But, one man's trash...

 

[Loco-Digger]

If it don't fit in the car when they are leaving to go home they either sell it cheap or throw it out. I furnished my apartment soon after I moved from Nashville TN to Newark Delaware back in 1986 from all the good furniture the college kids tossed in the spring.

 

[Tpmetal]

i live in a college town and used to make about 200 or 300 bucks every year from what they threw out, back when scrap had better prices

 

[WoodnHead]

My brother lived near the local university and would scour the dumpsters when the kids went home. It's a pretty expensive school and he would tell me the craziest finds. Designer clothes with tags still on. Electronics of all kinds that weren't broken - just didn't want to haul home. Bikes. The best was a purse with money and a few silver rings in it.

It got to be so excessively wasteful that it couldn't be ignored anymore and several local groups stepped in and turned it into a huge donation event which is pretty cool. The students turn everything in that they don't want and they hold a huge sale. Good stuff goes for cheap and they raise money for a local charity. A loss for dumpster treasure hunters, but all-in-all a lot less wasteful.

 

[cyberdan]

When my daughter was in her 4 year college they would put out bins for the kids to deposit unwanted electronics. one year when I was moving her out for the summer I walked over the the bin and I got scolded by her not to touch anything inside.

 

[old_chase]

My brother lived near the local university and would scour the dumpsters when the kids went home. It's a pretty expensive school and he would tell me the craziest finds. Designer clothes with tags still on. Electronics of all kinds that weren't broken - just didn't want to haul home. Bikes. The best was a purse with money and a few silver rings in it.

It got to be so excessively wasteful that it couldn't be ignored anymore and several local groups stepped in and turned it into a huge donation event which is pretty cool. The students turn everything in that they don't want and they hold a huge sale. Good stuff goes for cheap and they raise money for a local charity. A loss for dumpster treasure hunters, but all-in-all a lot less wasteful.

Yep.
I was in college and had nothing. End of semester I'd trade a $5 pizza to get a couch or a bike.
AMAZING what kids would throw or giveaway