Right on. We don't have an animal shelter within an hour of us but being a small town we can always find out who is fostering cats and dogs so when we get some decent food we can't use we always try to find someone. It's such a waste to chuck it when it's so easy to give it to a neighbour or someone else.
As for the other stuff, that is crazy. How could people care so little? These things could do so much for others and they throw it away and as far as they know it is going to be crushed and put in a landfill.
We don't have garbage day like that anymore because the district gives everyone a roller bin that the truck can pick up so you would have to pull over at everyone's house and start rifling through their bins which is the bear's job and he would be upset with me if he caught me stealing his work.
Nice finds though. It must really help to be in a metropolitan area where you can be somewhat anonymous with your sales. Here I would put something on marketplace and someone would comment that they just threw it out because something didn't work, then nobody wants to buy Steve's castoffs. lol
Being in a metro area has its advantages for the sheer volume. This motivates me a lot and makes it fairly easy to find stuff. However, the tradeoff is the constant reminder of how enormous the waste problem is, and how wasteful people are. This gets me down. If only we had bears roaming around to scare off people from putting stuff in the trash in the first place.
I get the down part. I look at the dump here and shake my head. I couldn't imagine multiplying that by 8000.