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Self Defenestrate

Tue May 16 2006, 03:17AM

Registered Member #87 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 01:36PM
Location: San Jose
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Anyone here recycle? Over the weekend, I picked up $17 just from some 7lbs. of tangled copper wire I had lying on the garage, and another sixty from the cans that have accumulated. I'm starting to eye those old transformers in the bequeathed heaps of junk in my garage now. Toss your scrap in a bin, it adds up pretty quick.

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Tue May 16 2006, 04:58AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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We 'recycle' but we pay the city to haul it off instead of taking it down the the recycling center and getting paid for it

I guess when you parents are making like $60/hr things like that just don't seem worth it

GODSFUSION

Tue May 16 2006, 01:40PM

Registered Member #157 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 08:00PM
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Such as like daily plastic and metals cans yeah. Dad will sometimes pick up the free aluminum pools and scrap iron and sell it to a scrap yard. Can easly make half a grand in a weekend

- wayne -

Hellmark

Tue May 16 2006, 05:32PM

Registered Member #189 Joined: Thu Feb 16 2006, 07:43PM
Location: Winfield, Missouri, USA
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... wrote ...

We 'recycle' but we pay the city to haul it off instead of taking it down the the recycling center and getting paid for it

I guess when you parents are making like $60/hr things like that just don't seem worth it

The sad thing is that most places who do that, dont ever actually recycle the materials. I know where I was, Waste Management (which is a fairly large national company), would take the recycled material, out of the presorted recycling truck and just throw it into the back of a trash truck and take it to the dump.

Jim

Tue May 16 2006, 05:54PM

Dunce.
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They have "recycle bins" in school, however, I seem to notice them just dumping them into the dumpsters...

HV Enthusiast

Tue May 16 2006, 07:29PM

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Recyling at its best. Looks like they simply "recycled" the recycle can as a "trash can."

Part Scavenger

Tue May 16 2006, 07:36PM

Registered Member #79 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:35AM
Location: Arkansas
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Hellmark wrote ...

The sad thing is that most places who do that, dont ever actually recycle the materials. I know where I was, Waste Management (which is a fairly large national company), would take the recycled material, out of the presorted recycling truck and just throw it into the back of a trash truck and take it to the dump.

Yeah, we would, but our waste management does the same thing. My aunt used to sort hers, but she noticed that the guys would take the different bins and just empty them all into the back of the garbage truck. Made her really mad too.

Has anyone read about the plant in Missouri that's started turning trash into oil? There are NO bad byproducts and they can put anything with carbon into it. We're talking sewage, industrial waste, tires, heavy oil byproducts. If it works as well as they say it does, it will be AWESOME. It's called thermal depolymerization if anyone wants to look it up. Estimated at the pump cost of a gallon of gas: $.75! The plant runs off itself, and the output can run in a diesel engine without refining.

Simon Barsinister

Tue May 16 2006, 10:12PM

Registered Member #116 Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 03:19AM
Location: Erie Pa, USA
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I recycle all the aluminum from work. The guys used to just pitch it out, I got them to save it for me. I just buy them a case of beer on a friday once in a while. It only amounts to $20 a month, but I hate to see it just dumped into a landfill (only to be mined out in a few decades when it becomes economical).
I saved up and separated all the magnetic and non-mag stainless.... the recycle place just threw it all together and gave me nearly zilch for it. Copper, aluminum, and brass are the real money scrap.
Rich

Cesiumsponge

Wed May 17 2006, 12:33AM

Registered Member #397 Joined: Wed Apr 19 2006, 12:56AM
Location: Western Washington
Posts: 125

We save all our metal chips and sort them as ferrous, aluminum, brass/bronze, copper, titanium, superalloys, etc. Ferrous metals don't get you that much unless you save up a LOT (which we do). They lump together anything from cheap cast iron to high end stainless steels which kind of stinks but the rest of the stuff is prime real estate for people (druggies?) wanting to make a quick buck. We had to put lids and locks on all of our nonferrous dumpsters because people would cruise and steal the stuff around here.

I almost hit a group of people people in a minivan with it's lights off near my place of work at 5:00AM last month because they were at a earby building's dumpster rummaging for goodies. Prices on metals are going up and it isn't unusual for a pound of titanium scrap to get over $20/lb.

As mentioned, most nonferrous alloys besides aluminum will get you reasonably good money. Copper is probably the most plentiful and I would guess many people that know about scrap metals rummage swipe it when the chance arises.

Self Defenestrate

Wed May 17 2006, 01:47PM

Registered Member #87 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 01:36PM
Location: San Jose
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Trash day and surplus houses are great for finding scrap. I tend to focuse on copper, with aluminium collected when its there. Water pipes, refridgerator coolant coils, and transformers all toss a good pile of copper. Aluminium chassis are my other income. Brass though, what can you scrap brass out of?

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