Not recycling someone else's useful garbage is (should be) a crime.
I find if you have a quiet word to the tip manager or the site foreman, 9/10 they will look the other way.
I keep a lot of spare parts to avoid delays in repairs but I also keep a great stack of donor boards for different electronic technology periods.
Most of these boards I have scrounged from trashed equipment. Quite often, if I can't find a part I need in stock, chances are the part is on one of the boards.
Exiting on a light note, I saw a guy driving a brand new Mercedes collecting radios on the last council collection.
Sometimes its not just the monetary value - its the availability.
I have heard a lot of useful stuff now gets thrown in containers and shipped off to China for recycling.
In a way its good, as I am guessing a lot of useful equipment and parts show up on eBay ( FE 5680A for $30, anyone
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Except for the inflated prices, we normally would not have access to these items.