what are the big recyclers doing with the ewaste they buy?

**webuyselltradestuff** · 10-25-2014, 08:07 AM

msmoorad - if I read your post correctly, then IF they are shipping off to India etc all the ewaste they collect, then they ARE making a HUGE amount of profit. Those are the top end markets for all ewaste. Shipping via container is the only way to go and allows them the best pricing. They get to pay shred price and get FAR above what even say Ewasted etc pays since they are sending to the END market for this stuff AND shipping in quantity.....they are also not considered Estewards of course LOL....but then again, $$$ talk.

**Flinthills** · 10-25-2014, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

msmoorad - if I read your post correctly, then IF they are shipping off to India etc all the ewaste they collect, then they ARE making a HUGE amount of profit. Those are the top end markets for all ewaste. Shipping via container is the only way to go and allows them the best pricing. They get to pay shred price and get FAR above what even say Ewasted etc pays since they are sending to the END market for this stuff AND shipping in quantity.....they are also not considered Estewards of course LOL....but then again, $$$ talk.

I'm not sure what to think anymore. I recently had a gentleman who lives in India email me asking what I'd pay for his ewaste!

**webuyselltradestuff** · 10-26-2014, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Flinthills

I'm not sure what to think anymore. I recently had a gentleman who lives in India email me asking what I'd pay for his ewaste!

I can tell you what I generally think....how much vs what I get now. Just saying that yes there are issues with it, but if the country that is taking this stuff will not do anything to clean it up or regulate it, then what am I supposed to do? If you offer me 2x what I get now, then I have to look at my operation profitability and do what is right for me. Again different people feel differently about it, but we live in a world economy. Everyone else imports and exports just about everything we buy...and I have to make a living...preferably the living I WANT, not what someone stateside is willing to give me.

**LifecyclesLLC** · 10-27-2014, 03:08 PM

The so called end users here in the US are dropping like fly's....There are quite a few primary smelters here in the US however behind the scenes while they have the capability to operate like a primary smelter they are not. They are operating in the secondary markets and exporting to less stringently regulated EU and asian primaries. The demand for physical metals in these countries is through the roof even though it isnt reflected in the current commodity markets. So you can have your stuff assayed all day long here in the US but if you could really see the writing on the wall you would be quite shocked. Your e-waste is getting exported by quite a few so-called end users. The rest of the middlemen are sorting and separating for anything of market value and its fire and forget on the scrap side. Theres a bit of a decoupling happening in the certification world and exporting has been given quite a bad name. I dont do it currently but I know exactly where my ewaste is going after it hits its "end user".