There are buyers for ewaste in Canada, prices are very competitive, more or less same as in US. However the volumes required are bigger than for the US buyers that advertise here. You need to send...
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There are buyers for ewaste in Canada, prices are very competitive, more or less same as in US. However the volumes required are bigger than for the US buyers that advertise here. You need to send...
I think 406reifinig covered most of it. Most buyers are not refiners themselves, they buy and ship to a large refiner.
The only way you can find out is if you start buying and ship to a refiner....
No laptop is worth breaking down. Sell them whole to a buyer. Collect a gaylord box full and ship to a reputable buyer. You will be making way more money than breaking down.
The only items I...
The ones with the clips I always take off.
The riveted ones are mostly very easy to do too, just insert a flat blade screwdriver next to the rivet and twist. They will pop right off.
The ones with...
I have done it the same way many times, so far did not have any issues.
A while ago I got a big lot of the same phones too, mostly Cisco 7940 and some 7942.
I tried selling them, both ebay and to some online buyers, there was no interest. I ended up scrapping them, the...
I also agree, a truck or a van is must, even if you only do ewaste.
Once you get contacts at businesses and IT departments in larger businesses, the volumes will quickly become quite large. Even...
Now that is an awesome score! Well done! Hopefully you can get more material from that yard!
I also had some good scores from some scrap yards, that had very good resale parts inside, but not quite...
Here license plates are no problem. You pay for them when you buy insurance, and they are yours. They can even be transferred to another vehicle, and they don't need to be returned. When you sell a...
Not an urban legend. Here from a Canadian refiner's website:
"Specializing in processing high value crematorium material, with the highest recoveries in North America, we are processing experts,...
0.49/lb sounds high to me. I would not pay that price, unless from a known supplier where I would be certain that the load contains better than scrap value items. For any random scrap server or...
Good score, that is the way to go, buy larger lots when you can, and turn around for good profit.
Overall more profitable with less time invested than picking up small lots for free.
I can only offer my experience, I ship 2 to 5 pallets at a time, 3000 to 5000 lbs total weight. Works out to about 20 cents per lb going from BC, Canada to Ontario, pretty much across the country. I...
If you work in IT and have access to old equipment, you should be able to do very well!
Desktops and servers are well worth scrapping, quite a bit of value in them (motherboards, cards, RAM, CPU,...
It is pretty rare to find anything on the curbside where I live too.
We have garbage pickup and recycling for glass, paper, cardboard, plastic. The garbage truck will not take the bulky items,...
If you want to learn refining as a hobby, that is fine, but do not expect to make any money from it. You might get a few grams of gold with a ton of work and time invested.
If you want to make...
Assuming if it is copper, those prices are a rip-off! Hopefully you did not sell to them!
At the yard I go to, those can go as #2 copper as it is.
HA HA HA!!!
Sorry, no one will refine such a small lot. If you want to go to a refiner directly, you will need quantity. Usually 40,000 lbs at a time, and commit to ship on a regular basis.
How...
I do the same too. Also have a local buyer for power cords, VGA and DVI cables for greater than scrap value.
Just completed another transaction with armygreywolf. All went well and got the settlement quickly. Nice to see him back! I especially like the wide variety of greater then scrap value items that he...
I would also say there is no shortage of desktops and towers, as well as servers around here. And yes, as Matador mentioned most of these come from businesses. I get most of mine from offices,...
Did not see the video, as the link is already removed.
However, on a truly large scale PCBs are not processed by chemical means, ever! Chemical processing using acids is only done by small scale...
Looks like die cast zinc to me too. Much more dense than aluminum, harder than lead.
Don't know about the really big ones, but the smaller ones have silica sand inside. Apparently some have a silver wire as a fusible link, but I don't think that would be all that common.
Sometimes on older higher end telecom gear, those contacts may contain gold and/or palladium as well. Usually the gold/palladium contacts are very small, rectangular, 1/8" or less in length and very...