They tried to
FIRE one of my colleagues for taking things out of the
dumpster.
Well *they* do own it,
Do they? This is a subtlelty of law I've never really seen discussed.
When you throw something out, when does ownership of it pass from you?
When you drop it in the trashcan? When you empty the trash into a
dustbin? When the collectors pick up the dustbin's contents? When
it's dumped into landfill (or whatever)? Never?
For that matter who does own it after you don't (if you don't)?
I'm wondering who would have standing to object to such a thing.
I actually suspect this is a morass of overlapping jurisdictions, each
with its own special slant on the subject, but there may be some
generalities possible....
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