[Mastador1]

First, this is nothing new, people were doing this in the seventies and early 80's until the price dropped so low restaurant owners had to pay the rendering companies to take it.

Second, if a thief comes onto your private property and takes what you own it's stealing. Used grease is not placed in a 'dumpster' it is either held in a in ground storage tank or in barrels locked in enclosures called a grease safe. Either way a 'thief' trespasses on private property and breaks into a locked receptacle to take what does not belong to them. That's how it is stealing.

I guess you would be OK with someone going onto your property at night and taking some of your property that they figured was trash.

[JohnnyP]

We live in a condo and each courtyard has a trash bin. There are people that go through the bins looking for things they can sell or recycle. I don’t have a problem with that.

The way the headline was written made it sound like it was “in the trash”, rather than in a storage container to be sold.