What are the $Recycle.bin folders and their contents on each HDD despite the recycle bin being empty?

I can actually shift+delete them -- What are these, some of them are huge.

This is on Windows Server 2008

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What file browser are you using? It looks interesting. – AniDev Jan 13 '11 at 2:03
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They are the recycle bins of other users.

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Ahh that makes a lot of sense; it's what I was thinking actually. – Matt Jan 13 '11 at 0:54
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