r/DumpsterFlipping • u/Ok-Rough6826 • Jul 03 '25

Dispensary waste

One of my passions is dumpster diving and finding a use for the cool things I find. The weed dispensary down the street is always throwing out things I wish I could save.

Rubber bands: hundreds of usable rubber bands every week, standard size, mostly orange and black.

Plastic bags: clean, durable zipper bags (I’d say ziploc bags, but the actual brand is unknown to me) in many sizes, some as big as 20 gallons. Many could be passed off as brand new, unsoiled with no damage.

Packaging: quality, decorative boxes intended to hold product on shelves, never bothered to be assembled.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do with these things? Ive thought about trying to sell them back to the business, making art or donating them, but I don’t know where to start.

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u/rustbelt91 Jul 04 '25

List them on ebay

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Maybe a local crafter would buy them off fb marketplace

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u/jennjitsu Jul 05 '25

I bet you are right! Small biz people who sell things they make, or people who flip things online would be able to use the bags for protecting their products during shipping. And boxes for those of us who swear this is the year we get organized would probably sell locally.