Ok for the sake of argument. most of you are commenting with your feelings,not with the facts. I am the CEO of Hand & Hand Foundation (www.handandhandfoundation.org ) an environmental and childrens charity. We have the "Cans 4 kids" program so we are recycling collectors / charity and we are out there seeing the problems / benefits of the homeless recycling. 1. Homeless people ARE a big part of the recycling industry.They do scavage tons daily of recycle from our city streets and dumpsters. 2. Some do have permision, the ones who don't are the problem.The homeless that unlawfully trespass to take recycle, dump garbage on the ground,climbing over walls in locked facilitys, etc. we even seen a homeless guy stealing one of our recycle bins with recycle in it walking down the street one day that he took from a locked facility by breaking the lock on the door. So he was STEALING from us, and children that this program supports. These are the ones who make it bad for all. This creates a problem, if a homeless person in digging thru your garbage on your property, lets say in your backyard (similer to a business locked garbage area) you would call the police or prob. hold him at gun point, why? Because he doesn't belong there doing what he is doing. Business and residents are just fed up with the trespassing and the mess SOME make. How comfortable are you if you go to a resturant and see homeless people laying around the resturant property or digging through the garbage bins, I bet you make sure you lock your car doors right? or you might not patronize the business? Who benefits? Nobody. The law itself is another one that won't be actively enforced by the police unless it was called in by the property owner/leasee AND the culprit is still in the immediate area. (i'm an ex-police officer too) . The only way I see to curtail the problem is NOT to have recycle in a outside bin. Okay here comes the shameless plug. Call us, Hand & Hand Foundation we provide FREE cans,bags, and pickup service to businesses ( residential / multi-family coming soon), we have most of our cans located inside of businesses, we rinse and disinfect our cans at every pickup for inside cans so there is no smell or bugs,and you support the children charitys in your community. 1-877-289-8430 to donate your recycle or to find out more about this program.