If we had known that we'd be digging through a dumpster, we WOULD have worn long pants and sleeves...but we were limited to what we were already wearing (and I REALLY didn't want to swelter in the sun with my hoodie o.O). We probably could have asked for gloves, but umm...we were a little too absorbed with the hype of what we were about to do. However, when we did find food/unknown not-nice items, we did find alternate ways to take care of it (the most common of which was to grab an excess of paper, scoop it up, and unceremoniously throw it away while saying "This is disgustinggggg...I can't believe we're actually doing this!")
Thanks for the cool points [: I'm not sure what really motivated us to do this; it might be because it was our first somewhat-big community service project since any of us had joined the team, and we wanted it to actually not fail >.<