(2) the boy scouts around here have big roll offs for cans,plastic bottles, paper ect. as a way to raise money and now it looks like hiere going after the steel too.
Yeah. I just thought to use Google to find info:

Google

Some of the results are about how they did scrap metal drives during WWII, but there are others about their current activities in the field. Apparently they know a money making proposition when they see one too...