if you put your trash on the side of the curb anyone can look through it. Out in Tuscan a bunch of anthropologists are doing this thing called the Garbage Project where they go around and collect peoples trash and look at it to see what it says about society....really interesting shit

anyways when we were discussing this stuff in class I was told that once you take your trash outside it becomes public domain due to the fact that most people do not have a personal relationship with their trash collectors, they are essientally strangers. And 'parently if you allow strangers to remove your trash then you have no qualms with the 5-0 going through it.