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The legality of dumpster diving

  • 14-12-2015 6:41pm
    #1
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭


    Dumpster diving, is taking things from rubbish bins.

    Is there any clear law on this?

    Has there been any cases of successful prosecution of a dumpster diver?

    Has any case ever even come to court in Ireland?


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  • #2
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1996/act/10/section/33/enacted/en/html#sec33
    (8) (a) A person shall not, without lawful authority, disturb, interfere with or remove—

    (i) anything deposited at a facility provided by or on behalf of a local authority or an authorised waste collector for the deposit or storage of waste, or any plant, including any receptacles therein,

    (ii) anything deposited in a receptacle for waste, whether such receptacle is for the use by members of the public or otherwise.


  • #3
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    What constitutes lawful authority?

    And has anyone ever been prosecuted under this law?


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,428 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    What constitutes lawful authority?

    And has anyone ever been prosecuted under this law?

    'Local'. Not 'lawful'.


  • #5
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    endacl wrote: »
    'Local'. Not 'lawful'.

    Read it again


  • #6
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    There was a thread about people taking discarded food from an Iceland(shop) skip. It was the UK though.
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057136298/1/#post88720442


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,610 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    What constitutes lawful authority?
    In such a case, the lawful owner of the property, the council, waste contractor or another party who would have lawful possession, e.g. a garda retrieving evidence.


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