The cost of doing business in today's world has sky rocketed! With fuel, insurance, taxes, fees...etc. Not so long ago our society produced a lot of stuff as well as consumed material. Today we produce far less and consume much more. We produce a massive market of trash and scrap, but the buyers that purchase this scrap to produce new goods are a lot of times, outside the US. We then are at their mercy as to what they will pay for material to make the goods we used to make here.
Scrap metal is no different than any other business. If the market would bare putting a dumpster at every location free of charge then it would be done. It simply does not any more. I do have one at my shop because it would cost me more to handle the metal myself.
At $4.00+ for fuel and the per hour wage of the person driving the truck, putting and picking up that steel bin does have cost associated with it.
When I opened my computer store here in Waterloo we were slow getting a sign put up. It was not the cost of the sign, but rather the $1200.00 sign permit to put it up. That cost was not there 10 or even 5 years ago. They just keep piling it on and the cost has to be offset someplace.
Just my 2 cents worth, which is actually worthless in and of itself.
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