Pots and pans

Talking about old people. Went to the bottle bank today to deposit empty bottles, and I dunno if it's new, but I only saw it recently. You can now also get rid of pans and pots in the metal container.

And I've become more cautious with my pans. I don't like scratches in them. They contain bacterias and whatsit plus the fact that I have more than I need. So I binned a pan.

There was an old woman there too, and when I threw away the pan, she looked at me like "are you crazy?". I was almost expecting her to dig down the bin trying to pick it up. But being heavy and very old, she didn't. Should I have offered her the pan?