$$$ Buying Electronic precious metal scrap! $$$

Originally Posted by Viper33

Hello, I hope I’m posting to the right place as this forum was recommended. We just redid our entire office with LED light fixtures and we have about 60-70 of them in the loading dock ready to go. Looking for a quick sale and haul away. We are in downtown Toronto and the items are in the loading dock ready to go as of Sunday evening March 21.

Thank you!

You will have better luck using facebook marketplace or craigslist than on here most likely if you need a quick local pickup of a relatively small amount of material.



Additionally, if those fixtures are like the kind I am thinking of, that is only about $100 of scrap, if that. so it is doubtful anyone will pay you anything for them to scrap them..... you could probably find someone on there to come take them for free though. Good luck!

Originally Posted by kss

You will have better luck using facebook marketplace or craigslist than on here most likely if you need a quick local pickup of a relatively small amount of material.

Additionally, if those fixtures are like the kind I am thinking of, that is only about $100 of scrap, if that. so it is doubtful anyone will pay you anything for them to scrap them..... you could probably find someone on there to come take them for free though. Good luck!

~ Regrets to Mario for distracting from his buyers thread.~

The company i was working for last year did the changeover from fluorescent to LED lighting. The metal enclosures were left in place up in the ceiling. The innards were replaced to make them suitable to 4' long LED tubes.

The waste product from the changeover was hundreds of 4' long fluorescent tubes and fluorescent ballasts. The fluorescent bulbs are considered toxic waste because they contain mercury. They cost the company .25 USD per foot to properly dispose of. Some of the older ballasts contain PCB's so they may be considered toxic waste as well. The best recommendation for a law abiding company with all of these items sitting on the loading dock would be to call in a waste management company that specializes in this area and is properly accredited by the government. You just write off the disposal fees as part of the cost of the changeover project.

Plain and simple ... this is something you pay to get rid of.