Scattered along the back roads of America are countless thousands of privately dumped trash piles blighting the land. Civic-minded and neighborly citizens should consider returning these “lost” items to their rightful owners....
What one sees most often on the backroads is the paper, glass, tin can, plastic variety of trash. Even a moderately enterprising sleuth (moderation in all things) can prowl through this type of refuse and find the identity of the original owner. Discarded envelopes, letters, magazine address labels and assorted junk mail usually point the finger. In the interests of fair play, you should find several such clues before firmly deciding on your target.
To return the material, collect an appropriate number of empty boxes from behind your local supermarket and fill them (not quite to the brim) with the offending matter. Although returning illegally dumped garbage is probably not illegal, you
should take all the usual precautions.... Pick up your grocery store boxes after dark
