They're owned by the city/regional councils, who run the garbage tips. They're actually at the garbage tip.

Anyway, that Goodwill sounds great...you'd never see anything like that here - the thrift stores here usually just have the same old crappy CRT monitors, inkjet printers, a mile of keyboards and mice, scanners, etc...usually nothing really all that exciting. You can forget about finding a computer there (and when there is a computer at a thrift shop they usually charge an arm and a leg for it), and you can especially forget about finding anything Apple there - although Apple stuff does show up every now and then....its very rare.