I’ve worked retail and done junk removal. The stuff that gets thrown out would make you cry! $2000 DJI drone because it was returned with a dead battery and couldn’t be resold, macbooks and iPads that were retuned iCloud locked, boxes of vintage toys (tmnt, motu, transformers, etc), antique furniture, video games, liquor, Food (non perishable stuff just because they don’t want to deal with it)! What’s worse is that the retail places I’ve worked stuff gets smashed before it goes, so that drone and the MacBooks all got the hammer…..

Jule, give them a good rinse with fresh water and they’ll be nearly as good as new.

Columbus, It's because they might get sued if they give something to someone and it harms them in any way.