Where I've lived in boston none of the bottle collectors would do that for fear of getting the cops called. They did dig through the recycling bins, but everything would be back on the bin by the time they were done
No actually, they kept to daylight hours and we're generally friendly and open to conversation. I had more issues from the town's construction. They wouldn't necessarily start construction at 6 am but they would certainly show up to the site and start yelling back and forth while noisily getting their equipment out of their cars