What goes in your shred pile?

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Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee

Anything that sticks to your magnet.

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I have tons of non magnetic plastic in my shred pile. Just leave it attached to what ever your throwing in. Free cash!

Thanks drozenski...I shouldn't have assumed that everyone would know that I meant metal.

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

coax cable, low grade boards, light bulbs all get mixed in with my sheet iron / steel as we don't have a shread cat by me

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My yard, the owner once pulled out my boards I had thrown in after taking all the copper/transformers and wire off, said it was too much plastic so I can't toss that kind of stuff if I go to that yard :(.

Are you tossing in unbroken lightbulbs or busting the glass and just tossing the bottoms in?

Sounds like a lot of trash thrown in to me, our yard will dock you for bringing trash in with the load. When your penalized a few cents per # you learn real quick to not do it again.

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Originally Posted by newattitude

My yard, the owner once pulled out my boards I had thrown in after taking all the copper/transformers and wire off, said it was too much plastic so I can't toss that kind of stuff if I go to that yard :(.

Are you tossing in unbroken lightbulbs or busting the glass and just tossing the bottoms in?

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Most of the bulbs are in the appliances like microwave lights etc. I remove the fridge bulbs to use later. Each yard is different. Mine will take the boards but will not take dishwashers with the plastic tub! Too much plastic on them. But they take a fridge as is! If you bring in bikes you need to remove the tires but the next time I go I see bikes with tires on them...

Speakers

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Originally Posted by CMHN

Anything that sticks to a magnet or will take way to much time to tear apart for little reward.

If I am tearing something apart for the precious metals and find it is taking to much time, I will toss it in the shred pile. Time is money, and its not worth spending to much time ripping some things apart for a few ounces of aluminum, brass, or copper.

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butt floss or regular lol

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Originally Posted by ilyaz

Speakers

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I just had delivered to me about 500# of speakers! A friend works for a Audio/video distributor and they were going to dumpster them. Guess who's taking speakers and pc cases to the scrap yard tomorrow?!?!?

Make sure to pull the copper coil and wires out of the speakers if ya have time

Anything that is too time consuming to dissasemble for the copper, brass or aluminum. Some plastics if there is some metal attached.