recycling bins

I know of very few communities that pick up scrap metal in the bins. Due to sorting and storage issues, and different alloys, most community bins are pretty specific as to what they'll take. When you put the wrong in thing in a bin it creates extra work for the sorters, and the item will most likely end up in the trash.

At a metal recycler, they sort the metals with giant magnets and other devices depending on the alloy. I really don't get the "throw it over the fence" thing. That's basically littering. Sure those places look messy, but why make extra work for people? Why not take 3 minutes to pull in and hand it to them?

Our company has a regional scarp metal recycler as a client: it's pretty interesting some of the things you can recycle: aluminum screen window frames, brass pluming parts, old chairs...