Originally Posted by
CopperMiner
For your information, I spoke again today to the ewaste buyer I mentioned earlier. He doesn't ship ewaste to the States, but it doesn't sell to the smelter neither. He gotta go by a wholesale buyer, because it seems that smelters require full truckloads to do business with. It is a commercial buyer and they consider him too small for them. That confirm two points. First of all, getting a 53ft truckload of PCBs is A LOT(this is at least 26 gaylords). In that context, one has no choice to resell them to a consolidator, unless you can build your truckload by buying inventory from other buyers / scrap yards. Secondly, that confirms that at least one low profile Canadian ewaste buyer connected to the smelters exists somewhere. Finally, ewaste is not what it used to, but it also seem hard to see where I can get a profitable space in the niche in that context.
There are buyers for ewaste in Canada, prices are very competitive, more or less same as in US. However the volumes required are bigger than for the US buyers that advertise here. You need to send 3-4-5,000 lbs at a time on a somewhat regular basis, otherwise they are not even interested. They are not really geared up to buy from general public, and prices are not advertised. They in turn ship the big loads to the smelters/refiners. Also payment is 30 to 60 days.
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