Jamie Silva, Boston College free safety football player learned from his grandfather that one person's trash is another man's treasure. Not only is the senior football player the cleanup man on the football field for the team's defense, but he has earned $4,000-$6000 in the past 2 years by dumpster diving and selling the items on Ebay and other online auctions. His foraging has helped him pay his way through college. Silva sifts through residential and commercial dumpsters several hours per day. He has scoured dumpsters behind cell phone stores for discarded phones that still work, used textbooks at the end of the semester which are sold on the internet or bookstores.  One time he dicovered an antique English doll (worth $800) and a wedding band (valued at $3,500) in the same jewelry box in a dumpster.

Silva's football teammates did not know what to think at first, but now Silva has added some fellow football players as cohorts in his dumpster diving expeditions. On one 10 hour day he and his team of divers had found a couple of working televisions, a mini-refrigerator and a radio. these items are just the tip of the iceberg for this talented college football player..