My health club is having a major addition to the building put on, there's a big dumpster with a fair amount of metal in it on a regular basis behind the building…I asked a guy (sounded like a sub-contractor because he referred to the main firm as "they" rather than "we") if they cared if someone took metal that was already in the dumpster…he said he thought they didn't want people doing that because they got money for it…but it's all mixed up with drywall, wood, etc. (usually in my experience if sites are recycling scrap they keep separate piles/dumpsters).

Was this guy just blowing smoke? I'm tempted to go back today after four and grab stuff because I've noticed they replace the dumpster Tuesday morning (it's Monday); I looked inside and there's at least a couple hundred pounds (last week I asked and a different subcontractor said he thought it was ok, he even hopped into the dumpster and threw stuff out for me I got almost 800 lbs out of it; I called the main firm later that day if they were ok with it in the future but they never got back to me so I don't know where I stand really. [I asked the guy on-site today just because I prefer feeling like I touched base with somebody instead of just going to straight to "work".])