My recycling center is more than happy to take my shells that are no longer reloadable but they will not take them with the primers in them so I now have a very large collection of spent primers. From what I understand they are brass as well? Can I melt them down and make ingots out of them and take the ingots to the recycling center? It doesn't make sense to let that much good brass go into the trash bag. What do you guys think?