That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
Don't support them.
Agreed, we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council.
Now you and I both know Cleggy that there always was a great metal and all things recyclable service when we were kids, so around long before "recycling" became fashionable. 
It's name? The Rag & Bone man with even an eco horse and cart!! 
There was one where I used to live he used to shout some undistinguishable row that was know by everybody, but I think it was any old iron. LOL
Yes, indeed down our way around London and in the South East it usually was "Any old iron!" shouted out at Max volume. "Rag and bone" however was a shout heard in East London by me when I was a child staying at my nan's. I am sure it was shouted elsewhere, but the former shout I heard right into the late 1960s.
Everyone though called these men "Rag & Bone men" which went back well into the Victorian age when the bone collected was used to make soap, with the rag recycled as understand it, to make a variety of products including paper.
As the Victorian age rolled on the amount of scrap, re-useable, iron increased and the rag and bone men started to collect that. As bone became unnecessary for soap production in the early twentieth century, these men collected greater quantities of scrap steel products, not just iron.
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