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    Specialize your recycling efforts

    I see sometimes on some threads people talking about acquiring different kinds
    of scrap copper and other commodities. Acquiring a good load of profitable
    scrap metal is great but may not occur often enough to make the cash flow.
    when i first started scrapping i would search Craig's list hoping to stumble upon the
    motherload.

    I never bought anything, I just searched for stuff sitting on the curb
    and sometimes I got lucky. Now inhale used Craig's list to get people to call me wanting
    me to haul there stuff away. I scrap air conditioners they may not be easy
    to tear down being that freon needs to be recovered first. Im sure that there
    are many other things that can be bought cheap and torn and sold for higher prices
    as individual components.

    The best way to acquire a commodity such as a used appliance
    or a/c is to go to the businesses that acquire them as a by product but have no intentions or
    capabilities of processing them themselves. Many corporate schemes are put in place
    to acquire commodities, but more commonly for resale, not scrap.



    Today I spent $212 on scrap a/c's that will be worth roughly three to four times that value. When i first started
    buying a/c's my initial investment was five dollars for two little air conditioners. You need to start somewhere

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