In SWIG's town, you can be cited for dumping trash in a dumpster not your own. You CAN be. Hardly ever happens. Cops have much more interesting things to do (they think.)
For two years SWIG's trash went into the office dumpster a little early on the morning it got emptied. Now and again other businesses would fill the dumpsters and the shit would have to sit in the trunk. Had to leave early one warm day and drive a long way to get the smell out. SWIG got more cautious after that.
One morning someone else had filled the dumpster to get rid of the remains of a birch. Hell, a whole box of stuff was in there, and a five gallon gas can all taped over, carefully placed. The boss sees the stuff and figures what's going on. He calls the cops. Cops swarm the can. DEA gets called in. Take all sorts of things out. Twenty feet away sits my vehicle with a loaded trunk. Glad as hell I'd become more cautious about putting stuff in the trash. No leaks, no wet stuff wrapped once, etc. It was windy and cool that day. Worked late that day. When I left no one else was around, and I dumped my bags in the dumpster like I had the right to. No one even noticed.
The paper had an article about the find. The DEA man talked about the ammonia method and then talked about the traces of red phosphorous they found in the bottom of the dumpster. Hey---not mine! Turns out I was one of many using the dumpster for that purpose.
The cops upped surveillance for a while. Then it cooled off. What I learned was to hide in plain sight. I still use the dumpster. I use it when I first get to work. I get the trash out of my trunk and throw it in like I am supposed to be doing that. I don't even check what is in the dumpster anymore. I'll throw it in right in front of a cop and wave at him. And go in the back door.
If they do check it out, they will find some bags of regular trash with mail and such in it and my name all over it. And they'll find some bags with nothing but incriminating evidence. And the bags are black. And they are not the same type.
"No, officer, just had those bags of trash. Yep the ones with the ties. No, don't know about those. Yeah those druggies dump that shit here all the time. You need to keep an eye out for them if you can. Thanks, by the way, for watching out for us."
Yes. It works.
Since then I've been having fires with the spent solvents, burn up what I can burn, smash what I can't, and bag what's left up 3x with opaque bags. These are carefully carried to the house of a friend and left in his garage. He puts them in his trash bin the morning the trash trucks come. Never go the house on schedule. Never make a pattern.
An education is what's left when you've forgotten what you learned.