On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:41:43 -0400, micky wrote:

I took a fire-damaged stove to the city recycling place, and before I
could get up to the gate, a guy stopped me. He was waiting there just
for people like me. Maybe he was even willing to pay me something for
it, but since I was going to dispose of it, I just gave it to him and he
put it in his pickup and later sold it to a metal recycler.

One time a friend gave me a beer keg setup, from which I used the carbon
dioxide tank and regulators for my home made soda fountain.

The wife didn't like the aluminum keg in the garage, so I took it to the
recyclers, and, guess what?

They wouldn't even take it.
Said something about it being against the law.

So, on my way out, I asked some guys who could barely speak English
unloading a pickup if they wanted it, and, they took it right out of my
hands.