Some may or may not know but my line of work is landfill design, yada yada yada.... anyways, I was working at one the other day doing CQA work for methane gas well drilling and we were right beside the active face (where they are currently dumping the loads of waste being brought in). One of the loads was a tri-axle dump truck from Easton, the ball bat company. The landfill operator said they've checked to see what some of the bats are and some of them had price tags in the $800-900 dollar range and EVERYONE OF 'EM has to be hit by the compactor (the thing with spikey wheels and a blade on the front to pack in the waste). I asked if I could grab one for a tire kicker and was greeted with a BIG f-u. He said if any of those bats were found on a ball field somewhere some day, HE (or whoever signed off on the form to receive them) would be PERSONALLY responsible not the person with the bat AND could be fine up to $25K and 10-yrs in the pen.
Not to mention that scavenging is illegal anyways.
I left well enough alone.
Stuff like this happens all the time. Being in the bourbon capital of the world, yes, even get loads of it in from time to time. The local SHERIFF comes down for that one and watches EVERY bottle or barrel get crushed. Same deal with computers, appliances, etc.
In some places, the fed. gov't has their own landfills and wow, some of the stuff they throw away is new or at the least, still very useable.
Most of this stuff is thrown away for ins. reasons. I'm sure some of the bats had some flaw or sweet spot or something but why couldn't they melt 'em back down? Recycle the metal from the cars, etc.???
C-ya
