Honestly .... there really isn't much money to be made scrapping. You maybe make a few dollars per hour after expenses. It's pretty labor intensive. None of the scrappers that i know and see on a regular basis are doing very well. You need something else as your primary income source. It might be Social Security or one of the entitlement programs. Maybe your prime gig is refurbishing computers or maybe you do youtube videos on how to scrap.The point is that it's really not about the work ethic. If you have the work ethic ... you could make much better money working at a fast food joint than you could at scrapping.
There's been a pretty big paradigm shift from small to large over the years. It's the industrial process and the economy of scale. The value is there in the material but you need to do it on a large scale in order to extract it profitably.
Us scrappers ... we're a dying breed. The forum here used to be much more active but there aren't many of us around anymore. There are more people leaving the trade than there are younger hands coming in to replace them.
It's sort of like the old time cobblers. If you lived in the 1960's ... you might remember that every town had at least one shoe repair shop. Things changed in the 1970's and footwear was made in factories overseas where the labor was cheap. Shoes became a disposable item. No more need for the shoe repair man anymore and they slowly faded away and were forgotten.
Anyhow ... i get that you are frustrated that you can't find a buyer in the Atlanta area. The best answer i could offer is that times have changed.
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