Dear O'Brian
While I do grant you your intitled to dispose of your trash how you wish to, but might I point out one tad thing that might soften your opinion.
In my artie runs down in the trash area I have found cloth, wood, ingots, regs, bods, gems, armor, weapons, jewlery, stone work, furnature, statues, tools, rocks, clothing, seeds. plants, odd and ends players dont want but that I being a feluccian have a use for. Many a day I have gone down there to see if the items are up to steal and found the ground littered with barbed items someone had tailored up for gains or for getting high mods on and trashed the rest. Sir I take them home to my tailor to unravel and reuse that barbed leather for my own bods..... One mans trash is another mans treasure. I can say with utmost certinly that the dev did not create this area for things to pop up and not get picked up if needed. I for one remember the days back in 97 where the only way a young player got anything was from the "trash" left at the banks on the ground. Many a day young scurried around collecting bags and things sellable to the npc's to help them get along for training costs. I have collected the seeds, and plants for clippings... unraveled armor and jewelry for imbueing items, talsman's for higher numbers for my crafters, and mele. I have recovered stone furniture deeds of colored stone saving me time and trouble for decoing, I am not saying there has not been a rare find there... I have found a few goodies. I didnt get many valentines boxes but the trash area provided me with quite a few a great find in my book. The drop rate went from quite a bit down to so few and far between that its now rare to find anything more then a 1000th of what was dropping before.
I do think the rate should go a bit higher.