The recycling company next to the nearest public dump used to be like that.
It was privately owned by a couple of families.
I used to get all sorts of stuff from there. They would let me take in a small tool box and I could pick any parts I wanted off of motorcycles, engines, washers and dryers, ect. or I could buy the whole darned thing. Nothing was off limits and I paid pennies on the dollar for it. I could get a whole junked motorcycle, with salvage paperwork for registration purposes and pay $20 to $50.
The property lease expired on them and the new company that moved in is a big recycling corporation. Everything that goes in there is on a one way path. Once they get a hold of a bicycle, motorcycle, stationary engine, scrap metal, whatever, they refuse to let it go for any price or logical reasoning with them.
It sucks.