Need some advice on making a deal

Originally Posted by bpatnoe

Somehow we need to get rid of that name. We are not scrapers but recyclers. If you think about it, what sounds more professional, a scrap metal yard or a metal recycling yard.

First impressions are everything. Look and act professional. Shake their hand. Have business cards. Tell them you are a recycler. And know the market. Also don't go right up and ask. Get into a conversation with them. Somehow break the mold and show them you are different!



One other thing I didn't mention above that pertains to many recycling centers. We remember a lot about what you bring, how you sort, etc. The town I work for has about 6500 people. I remember who we need to keep an extra eye on, who recycles, who picks, and which ones are excellent and know we don't have to worry about them.

You have this wrong, most of us on this forum are NOT recyclers, we are scrappers. we collect waste, break it down and sell to recyclers and/or the scrap yard. A scrap metal yard is not the recycler, they buy scrap metal and resell to the recycler. A recycler turns waste or discarded items into new items. Yes recycler does sound better but a chef sounds better than a cook and a cook sounds better than a hamburger flipper. It's all one big cycle that's why it's called recycling. Here's how it works and I'll use steel as an example but it works with anything. The scrapper goes out and collects the steel and sells it to the scrap yard they sell it to the mill that turns it into usable steel, they sell it to the manufacturer who makes new items with it. People look down on us but what would the world be like with out us. Everybody wants to recycle but they always look down on the first person in the cycle. It's something that we just have to deal with.