I don't mean to be critical, but I think that you can't just assume people turn stuff in like that cuz they're lazy. For me, I will separate as much as I can for what it's worth. I start separating TVs on the curbside over the winter, but typically with washers and dryers, I don't see it worthwhile to pull the motors at .19/lb or the brass off of sinks at .70/lb I will separate what I can at the scrap yard. To me, I make more money giving those things up to the yard and lose a few extra bucks, by using the time I would be spending breaking things down, to drive around more and pick more material up. And a lot of times when I started out, the motors or whatever I was trying to break down, the amount of time spent was not worth the extra money. I used to own a landscape company, and I knew that you have to charge a certain amount to profit, and cover costs. All my landscape jobs were billed at $60/hr all my snowplowing was at $120/hr. I will not go out and scrap if I am not making at least $10/hr after fuel costs. I rarely pay for scrap, and I typically stay busy everyday. Bottom line, to each their own, everybody has a different situation.