Eighner (1991) said: “Except for jeans, all my clothes came from dumpsters. Boomboxes, candles, bedding, toilet paper, medicine, books, a typewriter, a blank love doll, change that sometimes amounts to several dollars: I have acquired a lot of things in the dumpsters” (p.6). The availability of these items could support a homeless person for an indefinite period of time. Many people may not realize that what they throw away can actually be useful to a homeless person. Therefore, it is worth considering educating the public to ask them to donate more items. If a collaboration could be established between local waste plants and homeless shelters to help educate the public, more usable items could be donated rather than thrown away as trash. This could be as simple as a correspondence attached to the monthly bills of all residents of a