jackshmuc 
I have been thinking about this thread for a while.
Since the person doing the kitchen is a contractor, that implys a contract of some sort.
If his contract is to renovate the kitchen, I expect he has to remove the kitchen parts before he puts the new stuff in.
Since he removes the kitchen, I expect its his problem how he gets rid of it & thats probably in the contract too.
How he disposes of it is irrelevant, its for the contractor to do. If the contractor gets to sell the sinktop he may get some $ for it.
I expect that when the contractor made up his pricing, he would take into account how much it costs to dump whatevers not usable & what is reusable is possibly recycled & sold.
Since he could sell the kitchen sink & get a few $ for it, it would probably offset the costs to dump the waste stuff from the old kitchen.
If all thats happened I expect he would get very irate if someone came along & removed all of the stuff that was his property & worth money to him, and then be left him with a mess to clean up by himself, in his own time & then he has to spend his good hard earned money cleaning up the worthless waste.
Now THAT would be taking money out of his pocket & therefore 'stealing food out of his family's mouth'....
So, what did the contractors contract actually say about the 'removal & disposal' of the old kitchen?
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