As one of the buyers on the forum, I spend a lot of my time working with new scrappers. One thing that I have noted is that many new scrappers do not factor shipping into the equation. When someone ships me a 60 pound box of power supplies that I pay 33 cents a pound for and they paid 40 cents a pound to ship it, I wonder why it did not go to their local yard. While stripping a TV might not be highly profitable, there are lots of easily found high value items in ewaste. Cell phones, laptops and many boards are all over $5 a pound. Maybe if no one in your area does ewaste, maybe you could buy from your scrap yards. What do they do with their stuff? One of my suppliers is buying from junk yards, scrap yards, and on craigs list. He has been doing it less than 6 months and brings me at least $5000 a week and that is without any of his metal such as steel or alum. That is just his boards, laptops, etc.
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