What Is Your Net Profit From E-Waste ?

This is the sort of thing that's taboo in business. Nobody serious about it, trying to make a living from it is going to share their expenditures report with their gross income with you. There's a good reason for that because like it or not some of us compete with each other. I will give tips to maximize because it's prudent for me and I'm trying to be helpful, what I won't do is:

I will not tell anyone I'm not in business with:

How much I make
How much material I process
Who I sell to
What refiners I am using
What I am selling to other buyers
What my shop looks like or how much I have in it
How much I spent on material



Things I will show:

Tools I use, how I use them
Identification of various things
My truck, my sorting area, my workbench
My recomendations: People, places, methods.

Let me be direct here. This is going to appear rude, what reason would I have to disclose ANY of that information to you. Would it help you? Would it hurt me? Yep, and Yep. Frankly it's hard work, it takes knowledge and involves more than driving around and picking up sheet iron, vacuum cleaners and car rims all day long. The more you learn the better it becomes. Computer recycling is difficult to be profitable on a larger scale. This is why there's less than a dozen large operations in the united states, despite 25% electronics production to waste stream going on...you can see where I am going with this.

My take: Figure it out for yourself.