Wasteland USA

Being one of the millions of "unemployed" struggling to find a decent paying job in an ever decreasing job market with salaries that are moving backwards faster than our ecomony I struggle to understand the reasoning behind the policies of Home Depot that I recently learned during an interview with "Paul". After quitting a job with the federal government because I was so disgusted every day at the amount of money that was simply written off because people didn't do their jobs and the "I don't care" attitudes I found it very surprising to find out the private companies, such as Home Depot throw away perfectly useable materials ranging from wood to electronics. During my casual interview with Paul he told me how they were required to throw away many items that were either dented or scratched. Employees can't even buy the products at a discounted rate and employees are forced to just toss things away. Now I must be an idot because I can't find any financial benefit to that. First, they are just adding to our landfills and they are paying for the product they are throwing away and again to pay to dump it. I understand liability and our sue-happy country but I think Home Depot would be better off donating the stuff to non-profit agencies who could benefit from it or maybe have an "as is" section of the store where it's sold at a discount would make a hell of alot more sense to me. I'm no lawyer or business executive so I may be missing something but with the rising concerns of our environment I don't feel Home Depot is doing any justice by feeding our landfills with stuff that could be used elsewhere.