Don’t know the local laws, but in Chicago the trash bins are stamped with the name of the hauler, who are the owners of the bins and everything inside. So for example, all individual homes have bins stamped with City of Chicago, which means the garbage in them is equivalent to the garbage in the open bins on street corners.
Not that I’d want someone coming onto my property to comb through my personal garbage, but I’m a person, not a company. And it’s completely normal for people to comb through the bins that are sitting out in alleys. At that point, they’re on public property too, so there’s no crime whatsoever.
