垃圾,常常被人们视为废弃物。然而,在国外激烈竞争的社会里,各行各业为获得自己的立足之地并有大的发展,真可渭是无孔不入地收集情报。垃圾成为一种不可多得的重要情报源。如在美国,一些私人侦探常受雇于某个烟草公司,刺探其他烟草公司的经济情报。于是,他们常到别的烟草公司的垃圾箱里发掘有价值的情报。因为这些公司常常把记录着对外营业额的电脑打印纸带和垃圾一块倒掉,从而 Trash, often seen as waste by people. However, in a fiercely competitive foreign society, all walks of life can gain all-pervading intelligence in order to gain their own foothold and have a great development. Garbage has become a rare source of important intelligence. As in the United States, some private investigators are often employed by a tobacco company to probe the economic intelligence of other tobacco companies. As a result, they often find valuable information in the trash cans of other tobacco companies. Because these companies often record the amount of foreign sales of computer printing paper and garbage drained together, and thus