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    Best places and unexpected and unlikely places.

    Hi, I work in the construction industry so i know there is always always scrap alum and copper on every site. However the site im on has had a couple bad experiences already plumbers had someone break into the seatcan and cut up most of the big copper plubing pipes and a work got could cutting up rebar ,both were caught and they don't want scrappers there anymore. I was wondering tho is what kind of things are usualy good scrap that people just throw away or sell for cheap on a daily basis?


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    It's not a lot of money but some restaurant and bakery chains - particularly bakery chains- throw out a lot of disposable aluminum baking pans everyday.
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    you could look into contacting all types of manufacturing plants/facilities. a lot of these companies go through quite a bit of wooden pallets. I make a decent income just collecting pallets and re selling them. Right now 40" x 48" 4ways are going for $2.50 each. so if you only found 50 pallets per day you could possibly make $150 per day. Just a thought.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theelectronrecycler View Post
    you could look into contacting all types of manufacturing plants/facilities. a lot of these companies go through quite a bit of wooden pallets. I make a decent income just collecting pallets and re selling them. Right now 40" x 48" 4ways are going for $2.50 each. so if you only found 50 pallets per day you could possibly make $150 per day. Just a thought.
    Who do you sell the pallets to if you don't mind me asking?

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    Would they let you dig aluminum cans out of the trash? Think about after the lunch truck leaves how many people are throwing away that .70/lb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theelectronrecycler View Post
    you could look into contacting all types of manufacturing plants/facilities. a lot of these companies go through quite a bit of wooden pallets. I make a decent income just collecting pallets and re selling them. Right now 40" x 48" 4ways are going for $2.50 each. so if you only found 50 pallets per day you could possibly make $150 per day. Just a thought.
    Companies give them away for free here...right in their driveway!

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    Quote Originally Posted by theelectronrecycler View Post
    you could look into contacting all types of manufacturing plants/facilities. a lot of these companies go through quite a bit of wooden pallets. I make a decent income just collecting pallets and re selling them. Right now 40" x 48" 4ways are going for $2.50 each. so if you only found 50 pallets per day you could possibly make $150 per day. Just a thought.
    I was contacted by a company looking to sell A LOT of pallets! They have 10,000 half pallets and 14,000-15,000 full sized pallets coming out of the northeast....PM me if interested...
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    Lucky, everyone here is having trouble giving them away...
    If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jord0690 View Post
    Lucky, everyone here is having trouble giving them away...
    After posting that and a listing on a website I work with frequently...I found a comapny that buys them and will pick up (only trailer load qty' tho)

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    Lots of companies buy pallets. Our company buys about a hundred or two hundred every month or so. We pay about $2.50 each. We also buy gaylord boxes. There is a big demand for that, so if anyone can find gaylord boxes cheap, you should pick them up. Triple thick boxes tend to be about $8 each. We often have to ship them from NC to MD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ROKrecycling View Post
    Lots of companies buy pallets. Our company buys about a hundred or two hundred every month or so. We pay about $2.50 each. We also buy gaylord boxes. There is a big demand for that, so if anyone can find gaylord boxes cheap, you should pick them up. Triple thick boxes tend to be about $8 each. We often have to ship them from NC to MD.
    I have these gaylords in endless supply...what do you pay?

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    are watermelon bins the same or close enough to gaylord boxes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattInTheHat View Post
    are watermelon bins the same or close enough to gaylord boxes?
    I think they are a little shorter than gaylords, but they should work the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Who do you sell the pallets to if you don't mind me asking?
    .70c a lb? $2.00 here in Oakland. $.96c for plastics

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    If I had to break down I would guess that my business does 50% from apartment complexes, 25% Craigslist, 25% call backs.

    The items we scrap that we get for free are (unless LARGE QTY., then we pay or offer lunch/beer to the maintenance men)
    Stoves
    Washers/Dryers (we can sell or Whirlpool & Kenmore models more than scrap to a local dealer)
    Refrig/Freezers
    Exercise Equip.
    Sm Household Appliances
    Hot Water Heaters
    Iron Tubs/Sinks
    AC Units (in my county you have to have permit to scrap ACs, which I have, along with a scrap permit and business license)
    etc

    We buy:
    LG QTY Metals
    Barrels of Metals from Auto Shops
    Junk Cars/Farm Equip/Pontoon Boats/RVS/Buses

    Commercial clean outs (getting all the metal shelving, sometimes appliances, other metals free for removing)

    We provide trash haul off services
    Real Estate/Eviction clean outs
    and we do school fundraisers for recycling (easy $$$$)

    I hope that gives you some ideas.

    The $$ is out there. We started in January and are solely supporting ourselves off of scrap income.

    I am working on a list of things I could be doing while it's raining., sucky day!

    (I just posted this in the day in the life of scrapper thread. hehe)
    When raining:
    Places I can call and offer free pick up services for removal of scrap...

    Plumbers---hot water heaters
    Fencing companies
    Auto shops-offer $$ for 1/2 barrel/full barrel of metal parts they can save (I have several shops already-want more)
    Real Estate Agencies/Apt/Leasing brokers to get trash haul offs from evictions etc.
    Apt complexes
    Research Commercial places that are remodeling...we have done a Lowe's, couple of Blockbusters and a gas station...got all the metal shelving free for removal.

    Work on break down of anything set aside to take to scrap yard.

    post on Craigslist and Freecycle
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