What did you scrap?

[cwgii]

440 lbs of bed frames , chairs, at 175/t

[hobo finds]

440 lbs of bed frames , chairs, at 175/t

That's a LOT of bed frames!

[Recyclersteve]

440 lbs of bed frames , chairs, at 175/t

That's a LOT of bed frames!

Or one reinforced bed for someone really HUGE!

[hobo finds]

220 lbs. sheet iron $20 net ton drop so $.0575 lb. While the price of gas goes even higher

[Recyclersteve]

Scrapping trip for today...

Bare bright copper 4 @ 2.45/lb. = $9.80
Steel 118 @ 0.06/lb. = $7.08
Aluminum MLC, clean (mixed low copper) 4 @ 0.35/lb. = $1.40
#2 Copper Ins. 35% (black wire) 42 @ 0.40/lb. = $16.80
#2 Copper Ins. 42% (colored wire) 7 @ 0.45/lb. = $3.15
Dirty stainless steel 11 @ 0.10/lb. = $1.10
Clean Electric Motors & Fans 39 @ 0.15 lb. = $5.85
Rounding down -$0.18
TOTAL FOR ABOVE $45.00

Above was my first ever stripped bare bright copper taken in for scrapping. They said some of it wasn't as bright as the rest, but I still got $2.45/lb. for all of it! This was my first time using the stripping tool (Model WSA wire stripper) from TNT Tooling, which costs about $50.00. I stripped Romex to get the bare bright price. I'd say the tool was well worth purchasing.

[xippi]

04/26/2018 E-Scrap $103.00
Motherboards, expansion Cards, HD Boards, CD Boards, Memory , Chips


04/26/2018
Tin/light Iron $185.00 GT 1270#
Brass Yellow $ 1.77 lb 9 lb
2# CU Insulated 50% $ 0.49 lb 8 lb
Batteries $ 0.32 lb 458 lb
$221.15

[cwgii]

220 lbs. sheet iron $20 net ton drop so $.0575 lb. While the price of gas goes even higher

crud, although i fully expected it.

i have 3 more loads to empty the yard, oh well

[cwgii]

220 LBS OF SHRED---TIN CANS , BULBS, BOTTLE CAPS at 110/t

[hobo finds]

That sucks, I thought it would be 50 of each type of item at least, but even then, it would still not be that much money even if they were all $.10 deposit items. And 50, 40 oz. glass bottles would take up a lot of space!

And they charge you tax on your deposit! WTF. And in some places in California a extra charge to have a bag to put your items that you just purchased into! Do they charge you a CRV when you are at a bar or restaurant? If so how do you get your paid deposit back?

Yup, you pay tax on CRV because it is a "fee" and fees are taxable. And you pay an extra charge for bags at the store, so you have to bring your own. I've never seen a bar or restaurant charge a separate fee for the CRV. I'm sure it's included in the price though because the restaurant has to pay it to the distributor. Same with vending machines. The soda distributor has to pay the CRV, so it would be included in the vend price.

I see lots of redemption centers are closing in California as they don't want the homeless and or other issues with redeeming the deposits. This seems crazy do most people just leave the nickel or dime deposit behind and don't try and get it back?

[Rosco]

In Oregon I can do the return at the local Store where I buy. Not as much in the ditch at the .10 cents.

[xippi]

05/09/2018
Tin/light Iron $165.00 1170# down $20 from 2 weeks ago
AL Old Sheet $0.45 lb 248 lb, Window frames, siding, casing from the house wire,
Al Cu Radiator $0.99 lb 21 lb house AC unit.
#2 Copper $2.23 lb 47 lb
Copper Recovery $0.22 lb 2 lb the ends of the radiator I cut off
#2 CU Insulated 40% $0.33 lb 24 lb Computer wires mostly
#1 CU Insulated 65% $1.21 lb 40 lb 16g house wire mostly
Batteries $0.28 lb 179 lb
total $430.20

[Recyclersteve]

Nice price on the batteries-I got about 20 cents/lb. recently.

[hobo finds]

240 lbs. sheet iron $.0575 lb.

[hobo finds]

180 lbs. clean sheet iron $.0775 lb.

[hobo finds]

29 lbs. dirty alum $.21 lb.
8 lbs. Christmas lights $.15 lb.
100 lbs. Ext Alum $.73 lb.
6 lbs. cat 5 wire $.68 lb.
7 lbs. alum cans $.95 lb.
9 lbs. #1 plastic $.40 lb.
21 lbs. compressor $.17 lb.
35 lbs. dirty brass $.80 lb.
120 lbs. hot water tank $.0625 lb.

all prices have the bonus +$.10 a pound $10 a ton pricing

[cwgii]

a church gave me cahirs, shelves, another guy gave me a treadmill.... always a toss up of taking time to dismantle

[chris6084]

I see lots of redemption centers are closing in California as they don't want the homeless and or other issues with redeeming the deposits. This seems crazy do most people just leave the nickel or dime deposit behind and don't try and get it back?

A lot of people do leave the nickel or dime deposit behind. What all these centers closing down means is a 30 minute to an hour wait to turn in your bottles and cans. It's almost impossible to turn anything in on a Saturday anymore unless you want to give up your entire morning.

[cwgii]

330 lbs clean sheet at 155/t
230 lb shred at 115/t

[hobo finds]

a church gave me cahirs, shelves, another guy gave me a treadmill.... always a toss up of taking time to dismantle

I agree lately I just sort out my steel as I get it, hardly break down any to make it prepared or even clean sheet. Only problem with that method is more piles of metal around the yard

[smackvay]

I’m gonna have a “guess the $$$ scrap contest” in the coming weeks. I used to do them a long time ago. I post a couple pics of what is getting hauled in and you guys guess total $$$ received.
Got a nice stack of copper and copper/aluminum rads


Mike

[Recyclersteve]

I’m gonna have a “guess the $$$ scrap contest” in the coming weeks. I used to do them a long time ago. I post a couple pics of what is getting hauled in and you guys guess total $$$ received.
Got a nice stack of copper and copper/aluminum rads

Mike

I imagine your guesses will be all over the map...

[cwgii]

300 lb of ''heavy melt'' at 165/ton this was what i would have called prepared as it was all under 3feet long.

[hobo finds]

220 lbs sheet iron $.0575 lb.

[hobo finds]

I’m gonna have a “guess the $$$ scrap contest” in the coming weeks. I used to do them a long time ago. I post a couple pics of what is getting hauled in and you guys guess total $$$ received.
Got a nice stack of copper and copper/aluminum rads


Mike

[everything]

Sheet Iron 34 lbs. 2.97
old sheet aluminum 1 lb. .45
#2 copper 19 lbs. 47.69
lite copper it was antique copper nails (what the heck is that) 6 lbs. 14.46
#2 insulated copper 9 lbs. 6.75
low grade boards 4 lbs. .20
72.52 got ripped on the boards again..