I work in a LEED compliant building, and it's a pain in the ass sometimes because it's so hard to throw away unusual stuff.
We had a case involving a big company that makes a plastic kind of deck board. So we had hundreds of offcut samples, each about a foot long, that I had to throw away. Some were pressure treated. Some were sawdust/plastic composites. Some were plain wood. I asked for a big wheeled garbage bin to throw them away, but when the janitor saw what I had put in there, he wouldn't let me throw them away.
I had to bribe him with a bunch of crappy Chinese novelty swords that I also planned to throw away. He about shit himself with glee when he saw the dozen or so blades I was going to toss. I think he drove the Trex boards home in his own car so he could take the swords home too.
FYI this was some of the typical crappy Chinese junk blades I was throwing away.
Looked kinda cool for a few seconds and then after you pick it up and it feels uncomfortable and cheap in your hand, you realize it's just junk.