Our apartment has a policy peaple put arge items next to recycling bins and you can take them or will later be piked up as bulk waste or thrown in the open dumpster compactor. But at times, I went in the open end of the dumpster not the compactor end to grab stuff and defenatly not when its full and its lid is cl9sed outside, because your foot might get stuck trying to retrieve somthing big and youmay fall of and macke a mess.