+1 We have a recycling center here as well. Steel scrap is put in a separate location than other debris (note, I guess they assume the bikes are steel, whether they are or not). They really discourage picking, last time I was there, I saw a handful of BSO in the metal heap: typically names like Magna, Roadmaster, NEXT, etc.

To make matters worse here, they will pick up just about anything on the curb, including bikes. So most discarded bikes end up in the garbage truck, where they are ruined long before they make it to the dump.

I wonder how active C/L is in Thunder Bay? Around here, it is very active, and more and more people are selling their surplus stuff, rather than dumping it.
I just took a load of frames to the Co-Op, and someone had already grabbed one of them and had it on the work stand before I left. Recycling at its finest.