What did you scrap?

[Recyclersteve]

low grade boards 4 lbs. .20
72.52 got ripped on the boards again..

I've also had difficulty getting people to buy boards and pay anything anywhere near a decent price. I know there are those who will buy if you ship them, but I don't want to pay shipping for something that won't yield much money. I know of a place that is 20-25 miles each way from where I live, but I've got to save up a BUNCH of boards to justify that trip. I wish there was a better way. Oh well...

[hobo finds]

160 lbs. clean sheet iron (a swamp cooler) $.0775 lb.

[chris6084]

41 lbs Plastic bottles: $50.72
28 lbs Aluminum cans: $44.16
128 lbs Glass bottles: $13.08

[Recyclersteve]

41 lbs Plastic bottles: $50.72

A pound of plastic is $1.23 a pound? Wow. Do they mind if you crush the plastic to save space or is that harder to do with plastic than it is with aluminum cans?

[chris6084]

41 lbs Plastic bottles: $50.72

A pound of plastic is $1.23 a pound? Wow. Do they mind if you crush the plastic to save space or is that harder to do with plastic than it is with aluminum cans?

I crush all my plastic and aluminum. I'd have a full truck load bringing in that many bottles and cans uncrushed. It takes a bit of time, but it's worth it to save space in my garage.

[cwgii]

330 lbs pf chairs, table parts from a church. 155/ton

[xippi]

Tin/light Iron $165.00 2620# $193.00
8x2 drawer 2x 3 drawer metal file cabines, 3 dryer , washer, Lawn mower, furnace pipes. bunch of misc smalls I filled the cabinets up with.

[Recyclersteve]

Fans (4" x 4") 57 0.15 lb. $8.55
#2 Copper Ins. (colored wire) 15 0.35 lb. $5.25
Transformers (1" x 1") 33 0.15 lb. $4.95
Aluminum MLC, clean (mixed low copper) 3 0.36 lb. $1.08
Aluminum cans 6 0.90 lb. $5.40
Clean aluminum sheets (approx. 1' x 2-3') 43 0.36 lb. $15.48
Steel 184 0.06 lb. $11.04
Round up $0.25
TOTAL FOR ABOVE $52.00

[cwgii]

SHRED 115/T FRIDGE CASINGS, XMAS TREEE, TIN CANS, BOTTLE CAPS, XMAS LIGHTS

[natsb88]

Almost out of empty barrels. Guess I will have to run some scrap soon.

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Forgot to count but I think there are 12-14 drums of aluminum chips, around half a dozen of stainless, probably 8-10 drums of steel chips, and several drums of misc. steel. Plus a bunch of bigger stuff. That's a 40' container down to about a 24" aisle that only goes about 2/3 of the way back

[Dr. Cadmium]

10 lbs tantalum capacitors @ $20/lb

1300 lbs light iron @ 150/GT
30 lbs #1 steel 245/GT

mixed Al 0.43
extruded Al 0.49
irony Al 0.12
compressors 0.12
ACR 1.00
#2 copper 2.20
dirty stainless 0.15
lead batteries 0.32

[Recyclersteve]

Almost out of empty barrels. Guess I will have to run some scrap.

Forgot to count but I think there are 12-14 drums of aluminum chips, around half a dozen of stainless, probably 8-10 drums of steel chips, and several drums of misc. steel. Plus a bunch of bigger stuff. That's a 40' container down to about a 24" aisle that only goes about 2/3 of the way back

Nate: I am dieing to hear how much you get when you go to the salvage yard. I would imagine it will be well worth the trip.

[Recyclersteve]

10 lbs tantalum capacitors @ $20/lb

Do you snip the tantalum capacitors off of motherboards, etc.? I'm assuming that someone who buys circuit boards would buy these capacitors- is that who you sell to?

[cwgii]

35 lbs al cans at .85
48 lbs plastic at .45

[Recyclersteve]

35 lbs al cans at .85
48 lbs plastic at .45

Wow- you are getting .45/lb. and Chris6084 gets $1.23. Quite a difference.

Maybe he's in California where they pay "too much" for certain things like aluminum. I say "too much" because it is more than the actual market value, but fully realize that there is a deposit that people pay up front when they buy bottles and cans. So they are just get back some of what they already paid.

[natsb88]

The recycling center I volunteer at shipped a 42,000 pound load of plastic a few weeks ago. We got $0.06/lb. It's going to a domestic buyer that turns the HDPE (#2) into high end outdoor furniture and sorts/cleans/shreds the #1 and #5 into usable raw material for other domestic manufacturers. We're just glad to have a buyer for plastic again. We had been sitting on it for the last 12-18 months because nobody wanted it. Before that we sold a load for $0.02/lb just to get rid of it

[Recyclersteve]

It is hard to imagine how much space 42,000 pounds of plastic would take up...

[cwgii]

The recycling center I volunteer at shipped a 42,000 pound load of plastic a few weeks ago. We got $0.06/lb. It's going to a domestic buyer that turns the HDPE (#2) into high end outdoor furniture and sorts/cleans/shreds the #1 and #5 into usable raw material for other domestic manufacturers. We're just glad to have a buyer for plastic again. We had been sitting on it for the last 12-18 months because nobody wanted it. Before that we sold a load for $0.02/lb just to get rid of it

land the thing of hdpe is the milk jugs have some particular marketing applications while the #2 ''colored'' has almost no use .

[natsb88]

The recycling center I volunteer at shipped a 42,000 pound load of plastic a few weeks ago. We got $0.06/lb. It's going to a domestic buyer that turns the HDPE (#2) into high end outdoor furniture and sorts/cleans/shreds the #1 and #5 into usable raw material for other domestic manufacturers. We're just glad to have a buyer for plastic again. We had been sitting on it for the last 12-18 months because nobody wanted it. Before that we sold a load for $0.02/lb just to get rid of it

land the thing of hdpe is the milk jugs have some particular marketing applications while the #2 ''colored'' has almost no use .

Our buyer uses all colors of HDPE. They don't want black though. They could use it, but their sorting machines can't see the black plastic against the black conveyor belts and it ends up in the wrong places.

They first use light density to sort the whole plastic by type (number), then they shred and clean it, then they use optical sorting to sort the flakes by color. It's a pretty cool operation.

This video was made about four years ago, I believe they are now running three shifts at their plastics facility and two at the furniture factory. They are processing 25+ million pounds a year.

It is hard to imagine how much space 42,000 pounds of plastic would take up...

That was one 53' trailer full of baled plastic. Without baling, that same load of plastic would fill at least 12-15 trucks

[Recyclersteve]

Wow. Glad it was compacted enough to fit on/in a single truck.

Great video by the way. It is nice to see someone doing something about plastic. It is easier to recycle aluminum and copper. You get more money. They don't take up as much space and there are lots of places that buy them. But plastic just doesn't get enough respect- it is like the Rodney Dangerfield of recyclables.

[xippi]

06/01/2018 #1 HMS Prepared $220.00gt 370#
Tin/light Iron $165.00gt 1120#
AL Old Sheet $0.46 lb 73 lb
AL FE High Grade $0.17 lb 20 lb
Yellow Brass $1.79 lb 32 lb
#2 Copper $2.28 lb 10 lb
#2 CU Insulated 40% $0.34 lb 14 lb
Steel BX Cable $0.02 lb 10 lb
#1 CU Insulated 50% $1.01 lb 9 lb
#1 CU Insulated 65% $1.15 lb 8 lb
#2 CU insulated 50% $0.55 lb 16 lb
S/S 304 Prepared $0.36 lb 60 lb
Batteries $0.28 lb 17 lb $272.20

06/04/2018
Tin/light Iron $165.00 660 lb
AL Old Sheet $0.46 lb 39 lb
#1 CU Insulated 65% $1.15 lb 45 lb
#2 CU Insulated 50% $0.55 lb 8 lb $115.55

[Recyclersteve]

Xippi:

$387.75 in just two days. I would absolutely love to be able to do that much.

[Recyclersteve]

10 lbs tantalum capacitors @ $20/lb

1300 lbs light iron @ 150/GT
30 lbs #1 steel 245/GT

mixed Al 0.43
extruded Al 0.49
irony Al 0.12
compressors 0.12
ACR 1.00
#2 copper 2.20
dirty stainless 0.15
lead batteries 0.32

That's well over $275 in one haul. I need to start stepping up.

[cwgii]

220 lbs clean sheet at 155/t

[cwgii]

105 lbs #1 plastic , .45/lb