Several trends make scavenging less attractive than it once was: • There won’t be as much information. With the shift to e-mail and online documentation, there

Several trends make scavenging less attractive than it once was: • There won’t be as much information. With the shift to e-mail and online documentation, there are fewer interesting paper documents, and the ones that remain, when no longer needed, are more likely to be shredded by the trucks that have become an everyday sight in business districts. • There won’t be as much equipment. Governments require e-waste to be kept out of the normal solid waste stream, and online markets such as eBay have made it more rewarding to sell surplus items to asset recovery companies, rather than just throwing them away. • You’re more likely to get caught. Low-cost, high-quality video surveillance, with automated and remote monitoring, has made it routine to cover trash rooms, dumpster enclosures, and similar areas that might, in the past, have been monitored only at the most sensitive facilities.