Hello all. I have a question regarding how to responsibly dispose a metal plane. I have an Anant No. 4 that needs to be disposed. Now, I do refurbish and tune planes for my own use, and I spent considerable time trying to make this a usable plane, but it occured to me, this is not worth the effort. Since I live in Japan, I can't readily sell it either (demand for a metal plane is really low, especially of low quality junk such as this one. Besides I wouldn't feel good about putting this junk into unsuspecting person's hand). As for my own use, I have well tuned old Record, Stanley and Veritas planes, so I don't particularly need this plane, either.
So now this piece of junk is sitting on the floor. I'm not even giving it a shelf space. It has to go. So what can I do with this? Is metal plane such as this (I don't even know if it's grey iron or something else. I can hammer it to find out!) recyclable? Can it even become worthy of a scrap for anyone? I don't want to just chuck it away with the rest of garbage, after all, it's quite a hunk of metal (I'm glad it's not a jointer). So if anyone has some idea as to what to do to dispose a metal plane, please do share.
P.S. I don't need a door stop nor do I own a boat, so there's no future career as boat anchor or door stopper for this Anant. It's not even heavy enough to be used as a weight. I have dedicated bricks for that