Quote Originally Posted by kinipela View Post
My recycling yard has me place all mixed metal in a big blue dumpster. its the ones that most stores have in the back to throw away trash. they then weigh it and deduct the weight of the dumpster. The reason i ask is we thought we had approxmatly 600 of steel and they are saying we only had 450. They are saying the dumpster is 540 pounds. Does that sound right?
I would have them put it on the scale before you put your stuff in. Also, there are many different sizes of containers so a 2yd dumpster will weigh less than a 8yd dumpster. My guess is they used an 8 or 10 yard dumpster, so it sounds a little high to me.