I don't know if anyone has ever been convicted
under this
law, and I am
darn sure that dumpster diving goes on with or without
permision. But if
there are no PCs in the skips, it doesn't matter whether it's
legal to
take them.
Given WEEE regs, companies are required to "properly dispose of"
all electrical equipment. These days we have a company come
round specifically to collect WEEE stuff (some of which can
be quite big at times :-)).
Before that we were only allowed to put electrical stuff in a
skip when we'd contaced the people who take the skip away to
make sure that they were doing the right things with WEEE
(or, more likely, to make sure that we had the right paperwork).
So intercepting stuff if you are on the outside is AFAICT
much harder than it used to be if not downright impossible.
Antonio