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    Yankton said. “ We will accept white goods, but not pay for them. Anything with an intact compressor (ac units, fridges,freezers) will be refused.
    I didn’t ask why Sioux Falls said $1/ton for white goods. I laughed and he laughed. Their ferrous prices are always low. The only thing we have ever sold to them is non-ferrous and only when we have a back haul for the truck.
    Both Yankton and Sioux Falls are owned by the Sioux City yard. Both feed the Sioux City Texas shredder.


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    So $.0005 a pound. 100 pounds and you get a nickel! That's if it is $1.00 net ton crazy
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    Better than the dump!

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    I am afraid we will all be seeing lower prices for scrap metals for awhile... China no longer buying is just the beginning. If the green recycling movement stops, businesses will no longer feel pushed to be green. Cheaper to use new material than recycled and no public outcry the company will no longer be forced to recycle. Most plastic recycling costs more than to just landfill the stuff. Waste to energy seems like it is looking more possible as regulations are softening and more and more trash is being produced.

    Labor costs, shipping logistics and many more factors as well. Cheaper made appliances made with less metal equals less good stuff in the shred and more trash to dispose of.....
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    The company i work for phased out cardboard recycling last year. We were taking an awful beating with it. Best guess is that we were spending 20 dollars in labor to get one dollar back on the sale of cardboard.

    Green is all good and well but it has to be self sustaining from a money point of view.

    Ewaste appears to be taking a beating here. It was subsidized by state government for a number of years. The idea was that you document the piece of electronic gear and then bill the state for reasonable disposal cost. In turn ... the state bills the manufacturer for an end of life fee.

    Yeah ... it's not to hard to imagine how that all worked out.

    The state pulled a Sneaky Pete and changed the law last year. They made the recycler responsible for billing the manufacturer an end of life fee directly. The Ewaste company that did a great job of servicing this area of the state withdrew shortly after the change in the law and we were more or less left to figure it out for ourselves.

    We do have a new waste to energy plant in the works.It was scheduled for completion sometime this summer so it may already be on-line by now.

    There's a fairly good article on what we have, and what we're transitioning to here.

    https://www.mainepublic.org/post/ope...aste-landfills
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    Shred 50/ton in Chicago Heights Illinois.

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    I have a couple of water heaters on the pickup I'ma take in tomorrow and see what I get. It's found money, but at some point it really isn't worth it.
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    Shredder yard 60/ton down from 90/ton. It was a freaking ghost town. most of the employees where picking up trash and raking leaves. I was the only one there

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    Sheet iron $.0225 lb. $45 net ton
    Unprepared $.0375 lb. $75 net ton
    Clean Sheet Iron $.0425 lb. 85 net ton
    Prepared $.045 lb. $90 net ton
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    $20 per ton at Atlas Metal and Iron of Aurora and $50 per ton at Denver Scrap Metal Recycling for "shred" aka "scrap".


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    Down to 3 cents a pound in DFW today.

    Still, found money!


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    Quote Originally Posted by auminer View Post
    Down to 3 cents a pound in DFW today.

    Still, found money!

    The tin would have got you $7.25 at Atlas in my area - it's actually $25 per ton or .0125 cents per lb. not $20 per ton - well it was as of a few days ago.

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    Just got my check in from the last dumpster of steel. Prices are looking to hold steady at $45/ton. I never thought the day would come where less than 3 cents a pound was a good price. Oh well, on to the next load!

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    Denver Scrap Metal in Denver still $50/ton, Atlas Metal and Iron of Aurora still $25/ton Atlas' ferrous side of yard (last I saw it) was squeaky clean/empty - void of any metal.

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    The NewZealand $ exchange rate moves around a bit against the US$.

    Most of the time its about NZ$1.00 = US$0.66 cents, easy to work out @ 2/3rds US$.
    Sometimes as high as US$0.70 cents, nice @ 70% of US$
    A high NZ$ is good for fuel prices @ US1.40 / litre (NZ$2.10
    A low = as much as NZ$2.60 / litre. Shifting oil prices have to be taken 8nto account.

    But while metal prices dropped over a while, the higher NZ$ keep Nonferrous pretty good. Steels been low for a long time @ NZ$30 / ton for lightgauge.
    Yep, US$20 a Metric Ton.

    But Aluminium ext has set @ NZ$1.50 / Kg for a long time.
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    Ali Dom & Cast & Cans @ NZ$1 / Kg.
    I notice there's a lot of Steel scrap at the yard last week & Ali Extrusion is NZ$1.40 /Kg.

    So i go in yesterday & couldnt even drive in.. its blocked with Steel piles & 1 truck & grapple loader unloading it.
    The yards got a gate in. Then the weighbridge, the offices are the same length on the right of the weighbridge & the Steel yards past the weighbridge.
    At the end of the weighbridge its a 'U' turn back into driveway out & theres a shed beside that for Nonferrous weighing up & storage.

    So i go in yesterday & get
    NZ$1.30 for Ali extrusion.
    NZ$0.70 for Ali cast &
    NZ$0.80 for Alu domestic.
    Brass was NZ$4.60 /Kg & i sold all of my computer Brass standoff screws, 30 + Metres of them, for 5 Kgs weight.

    . Thats 1000 + Computers worth of standoffs. I bought more registration for my car & that saves me having to pay $200 for a traffic fine.

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    As of today:
    $35/ton Atlas Iron and Metal of Aurora - up $10 per ton.
    $50/ton Denver Scrap Metal Recycling.

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    $65 a ton for shred here in Tucson as of Tuesday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
    The company i work for phased out cardboard recycling last year. We were taking an awful beating with it. Best guess is that we were spending 20 dollars in labor to get one dollar back on the sale of cardboard.

    Green is all good and well but it has to be self sustaining from a money point of view.

    Ewaste appears to be taking a beating here. It was subsidized by state government for a number of years. The idea was that you document the piece of electronic gear and then bill the state for reasonable disposal cost. In turn ... the state bills the manufacturer for an end of life fee.

    Yeah ... it's not to hard to imagine how that all worked out.

    The state pulled a Sneaky Pete and changed the law last year. They made the recycler responsible for billing the manufacturer an end of life fee directly. The Ewaste company that did a great job of servicing this area of the state withdrew shortly after the change in the law and we were more or less left to figure it out for ourselves.

    We do have a new waste to energy plant in the works.It was scheduled for completion sometime this summer so it may already be on-line by now.

    There's a fairly good article on what we have, and what we're transitioning to here.

    https://www.mainepublic.org/post/ope...aste-landfills
    Where in Maine do you live? My wife's family is from Maine. Her Uncle owns the motel where the Airline meets Houlton Rd.

    I will probably be taking a load this week. the phone has slowed and I will need something to do with my time..... and I have a pretty good load of brass and ICW. I will post the ticket.

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    1$/lb. for motherboards this morning.

    I forgot to ask what ferrous was priced at - I didn't take in any.
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    2.5 cents a pound. Worse I’ve ever got in 7 and a half years doing this. Garage will have to be overflowing to take in next load. Still the exercise and cleaning up the environment still makes it worth it to me. Probably start stripping power chords again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    Where in Maine do you live? My wife's family is from Maine. Her Uncle owns the motel where the Airline meets Houlton Rd.
    Sorry i missed this one T. Some of my regular workdays run 13 hrs. There are days on end that i don't get a chance to log in.

    I'm on one of the coastal islands not too far from Bar Harbor. There's a causeway over to the mainland so we're not quite as isolated as some other parts of the state. Fishing and tourism are our major industries. In fact, we boast the largest lobster landings in the state. There's a bunch of very hardworking guys ( and Gals ) out there on the water.

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