My daughter works at a warehouse for a big box store and works in the returns department. Returns that cannot be reshelved in the stores are packed up into large containers and then hauled to the warehouse where the employees sort through the items to put them in large dumpsters to go to the landfill or recycled - for instance wood items, chopped up and made into mulch and bagged and then sold through their stores. They throw away perfectly good electronics, appliances, building materials that their suppliers don't want returned to them. The employees used to be able to buy these items and take them home, but a few years ago were informed that they could no longer purchase these items and if they were caught removing any items, they would be charged with theft and immediately fired. Their dumpsters are within a fenced in area and there's no way dumpster divers could get to it. It makes me sick to hear the waste that's happening when these items could be donated to charities. What could possibly be wrong with holding a huge garage sale or auction with these items? One person's garbage is another person's treasure, after all.