I've been scraping for a while now, a lot of curb shopping and a few contracts. I've always tended to clean things like lawn chairs and furniture. Like remove all the not metal and just throw it out.



Ive been noticing some people at my local yard unloading things like full car seats, office cubicles, rims with tires still on them, artificial Christmas trees basically all kinds of things that don't really seem very high recovery.

I asked one of the attendants about it and he said something along the lines of its only 9 cents a pound whatever its just shred.

Since then I've scrapped full desks with heavy wood tops, sections of wood with plugs and small steel junction boxes on them, full bikes, suitcases. just anything with even just a little metal seems to be ok and I'm getting full weight on it.

Are all scrapyards this lenient on what goes in the shred pile?

I used to take the wheels off of lawn mower decks to scrap them when the price was $130/mt and I didnt know - now its $170/mt and thats some serious cash.

I saw a guy unloading a pile of ikea furniture all still in the cardboard boxes (I guess it was metal?!) and the guy just waved him through.