I saw an illegally parked car dropped in one, in a youtube video. I guess the boss wanted someone to respect his authority!
Sad they don't have a spokes-for-folks type program there, but if people want to turn in their garage-ornaments for scrap $, can't do much about it.
I wonder how many of those bikes were stolen though! Some scrap pickers get greedy and start stealing things. Bicycles are a target because they are hard to trace, and by the time you know it's gone, it's hard to do much about it, sadly. Those bikes didn't look really that "used".
On the other hand, when I was a kid, I saw a lot of bicycles minus a wheel, or with some minor problem, tossed to the curb. As I got on the school bus, I'd sometimes see scrap pickers chunking them in their trucks.
My grubee cruiser was a dumpster find, with a broken wheel, crusty chain, and bad headset, but I gave it new life.