I worked at a scrap yard in Raleigh NC. We would see all kinds of crap like this come through. Water heaters slam full of water, TV's in refrigerators, concrete in engines, aluminum cans filled with sand and then crushed. Most of the time if you were caught it was a immediate ban, if they play dumb then we'd deduct weight and put a big red flag by their name. It hurts the yard and in the long run, not only hurts you, but everyone else.
Too much dirt in a load of shred, especially if your yard sends off to somewhere else, causes big problems, weight deductions, fees/fines, load rejections or even termination.
We had a load (Truck load 40,000 pounds) of baled cans rejected due to moisture/contaminants because some jerk decided to put rocks and sand in his cans. We had to spend several hours unloading the truck, torching bad spots on bales and picking out those cans. Turned out to be roughly 90 pounds of crap cans. Bummer was that the guy that ran the cans was in on it with the guy who brought them in. So not only did we lose money by having to clean up someone else's mess, a scrapper got fined and banned until he paid up plus the can machine operator lost his job.
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