Killjoys! I'm sure that there are things that some people throw away that other people could use. But I guess they don't want scads of people out there rummaging around and getting hurt, so I guess that's a good thing.
Every time we take a load of aluminum cans to the recyclers my husband usually sees some piece of metal something-or-other that he can find a use for. If you want it, all you have to do is pay for it by the pound. But we haven't actually come home with anything yet. We just don't have any room to store anything right now
There was a couple there once we overheard fighting about a suitcase a guy saw someone dump. It was a nice looking older hard sided suitcase, was clean inside, nothing wrong with it, but the woman was just mortified that he wanted to take it. She just stomped off and went and sat in the truck. He stood there a long time looking at it, looking at the back of her head in the truck... and then he left it there ;~)