Whether you want to dumpster dive or you have people diving in your dumpster, is it legal to pick through trash here in the Lone Star state?
Well, dumpster diving, despite one’s feelings on it, is legal at the federal level across all 50 states. Thanks to the 1988 Supreme Court ruling in the California vs. Greenwood case , other’s trash is not protected under the Fourth Amendment. Meaning, once you put that waste can on the curb, it is exposed to the public for viewing.
Unless a state or city has an ordinance that bans dumpster diving, it is perfectly legal on public property. So what are the laws in Fort Worth?
Is it legal to dumpster dive in Fort Worth?
There are no Texas wide or Tarrant County ordinances regarding dumpster diving in Fort Worth…