I spent a summer working at a dump (Charlton Waste Transfer Station for anyone who knows that part of Surrey), and I found it remarkable what people would throw away.
1) a 24-crate of Dr Pepper, someone brought it over to me and said it was unsold from the refreshments tent at their village fete. I had it, nothing wrong!
2) Thousands of packets of chewing gum (promotional packs, again given to the staff not hoiked out of the rubbish!)
3) A full-length, worn-once, leather trenchcoat. A lady came over to my brother (who was also working there) and said it was her boyfriend's but she was throwing out all his stuff, and they were the same size. He saw the same make and design in a shop a few weeks later for £400!
4) A cocktail cabinet, complete with a dozen or so half-full bottles of spirits (one of my colleagues drank all the sambuca during his shift)
5) Various things that probably had "Made in Sweden" stamped on them, if you know what I mean
6) Nude photographs, presumably of someone's wife (just in case anyone is planning on throwing out such items, shred or burn them instead!)
7) Large asbestos items in the green waste (hmmmm, found it in the garden, so there it goes)
8) A Transit... well, they hadn't intended to dump it there, but the silly s*d parked it behind a 40-tonne (unladen weight
) Volvo front-loader, which then reversed into it (although "over it" wouldn't be far off the mark!)