Fairly excited the other day when i took a steel desk, that had been hanging around our apartment dumpster for about a week, down to the recycle center. Pretty much did it because the waste management folks wouldn't touch it but when i got to the recycle place they weighed it out at 170# and i made my gas money plus a dollar or two..woohoo!
Recycling is kinda' cool, you could actually make a dollar or two if you plan it right.
How much do they pay for lead. I have some extra of that hanging around my butt that I could afford to lose.
I have one of those old metal military desks in my garage. HEAVY thing!!! Do you think they'd take something like this? I could use the extra cash. 🙂
I spent a week dismantling a small mountain of aluminum pumps, removing the brass impellers and copper lines from the aluminum housings. They were all beyond rebuilding, and had piled up for decades at a local business. The business went bankrupt, and the property owner paid me to come haul them off. When I realized the materials involved, I juryrigged a press to push out the shaft and bearings.
I ended up with 3200 lbs of aluminum, 400 lbs of brass, and 85 lbs of copper, plus another 300 lbs of steel brackets, bearings and bolts. It was my sole income for that month, and was much appreciated.
A few years ago I was cleaning out a shed behind a building my dad rents after the tenant moved out, and I found a good sized roll of thick wire (the kind you'd run from a power pole to a house). My wife and I are good recycler of our household trash, and I didn't want to be wasteful, so I took it to the recycling center on my way home thinking they'd give me a couple buck for it. Much to my surprise, they gave me $180.
Watch out with that wire. You might get arrested if you don't have a good verifiable explanation, because there is so much theft of wire to sell for scrap.
Yeah, your right about that. Walking around the block one city I noticed that people had clipped all the copper ground wire that runs down the power poles at ground level and about 7-8' up (as high as they could reach). Also, people were stealing A/Cs from vacant houses for the copper coils ...
In my case, the wire roll was something that clearly had been laying around a dirty shed for years.
I'm over here wondering about the platinum in the lifetime's supply of Bosch platinum plugs i've never thrown away...hmmm
I didn't know this.
America Recycles Day
Also one of the most successful Ad. campaigns was the "Don't Mess With Texas" littering Texas highways campaign.
