I did that! A friend of mine wanted to go into movie special effects, once we built a farmhouse out of plaster of paris, and wrapped the can in a paraffin-soaked rag, set fire to the rag, then shot the can to see what it would be like "on a film-set". To scale it would have been if someone had accidentally set "Little Boy" off in the farmhouse...
I live in Surrey. They do eff-all. The recycling site is so expensive that most people seem to just fly-tip around the local lanes (which, of course, costs far more to clear up than it would to run a proper recycling facility, but Surrey put the moron into oxymoron when it comes to "council logic"!