When i worked at the tip it was for may gurney, they paid the council millions for the contract, big money to be made in waste, what always got me was the green waste, you take your green waste to the tip, from there they take it to the nearest transfer station, where it is shredded and put into big piles to rot down, once composted its bagged up and sold back to the public at a high price, who then use it to grow stuff and so the cycle begins again. We once had to shut the site down as there was radioactive material in the metal container. Living near the military we once had about 15 large boxes of ration packs brought in, still in date. I pretty much lived of boil in the bag meals for months haha. After a while we were told we needed to recycle even more, which meant breaking open bags and sorting the waste, horrible work! Well i remember a little old lady coming in, chucking some bags on the machine, so i told her we need to sort it, she grumbled then got in her car and sped off, so doing my job i opened the first bag and it was full of dildo's, butt plugs etc! We also had someone from the military chuck some very large live ammunition into a several tonne compacter then drive off, luckily i saw it before i pressed the button! It is a very "interesting" line of work. They are told they are not aloud to sell or give anything away, but we often had people come in and give us bacon butties and the like in return for saving certain things back for them