Guy King wrote:

The message
from Phil Bradshaw ke
contains these words:

This may be related to 'It is an offence to remove, pick over etc. waste
on this site etc. etc. blah blah blah.' at bring (recycling) sites -
Greater Manchester anyway.

That's true almost anywhere. The trick is to make sure it doesn't apply
to you by being friendly and helpful to the staff.

Indeed. My son spotted some 486 computers in the white goods pile at one
site and did an ask ... and got the nod to whip the CPUs out and a couple
of other bits while I gave the site worker a hand sorting metal.