I asked the guy today when i took my load of scrap in. He said that its not allowed, however you can purchase things from the "pile" for a few bucks more than scrap value. Never done it, but highly considered it because i see so many **** lawn mowers in there, lol. I could see why you cant do that, some new scrappers are not to smart when it comes to scrapping. An example would be someone dumping 10 grills. Most scrappers know the lid and base are cast aluminum, but they throw them in steel. Someone comes buy and dumps off the steel, and takes the grills with aluminum for half the weight of the steel they dumped. They made profit from the steel and now they have to repay for this time dumping aluminum. Hope i explained that well, but thats the general reason why they dont allow that.