I had mentioned Island Recycling competitor Schnitzer awhile back and about a week ago THEIR plant went up in flames.
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I had mentioned Island Recycling competitor Schnitzer awhile back and about a week ago THEIR plant went up in flames.
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That's strange that you get that. When I tried out the links, I am redirected to Sustainable Solutions Hawaii - Contact Us and Sustainable Solutions Hawaii - Products We Recycle, respectively. And...
There are so many things wrong with dumping it in the lava tube haha. First is cost: The Big Island (where the lava is) is home to only about 18.5% of the entire population. This means that the trash...
I'm not sure what it was back then, but Island has since moved to Campbell Industrial Park and Schnitzer is where Hawaii Metal Recycling was in Kapolei.
More Trouble in Paradise
A lawsuit was filed about a week ago by Island Recycling's main competitor Schnitzer for Department of Health violations. Apparently Schnitzer had tested the soil around...
Prices are low because the Chinese and Greek economies hit the fan. Most of our scrap goes to Asia and economic growth their has been slow compared to the US (so they are buying less scrap). And...
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Here is the news report from a couple days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Q3sAe-eU
So long as you are taking the steel with you when you sell other, more profitable goods, think of it as more of a bonus than a main source of income.
Last I check cardboard was a solid penny a pound haha
My yard stopped buying unprepared steel today. Closed out at $20 per short ton.
Today was the final day of my yard buying unprepared steel for "at least" a month. All aluminum is now a solid 0.25 per pound.
Cardboard still at a penny per pound.
Update
Went to the "fire yard" today to deliver some empty towers and such; they've stopped purchasing steel until they can figure out what exactly caused the fire. The guy said it could be about a...
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Another yard here is having trouble. Hawaii's recycling program (called Hi-5) adds a 5-cent deposit to all beverages and you get it back when you drop it off to a redemption center (which...
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The fire is now taken care of and the state Department of Health will begin investigating the company for violations. According to the owner, he expects to pass all protocol. According to a...
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More than 24 hours later the fire is still burning. The Honolulu Fire Department has left the scene (as the fire seems to be, for the most part, under control) and the scrap yard is now...
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The sun doesn't set like this here until well after 7. I'm not too much afraid of the loss of property, but as others have said, I am very...
A good deal I had with a buyer has gone up in flames...literally. It was reported in the news that my scrap buyer (and the only scrap buyer that I know of that purchases from the general public) has...
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RE: Goodwill
I haven't thought about that. There is a local non-profit here that gives computers to disadvantaged families and I've reached out to them a few times. I've never thought about Goodwill...
10 June 2015
I got a call over the weekend to pick up a couple of computers and a printer. Literally on my way, I got another call from one of my regular clients at a computer repair store saying...
$0.045 per pound isn't too bad during this down turn. And getting paid $33 to hang out with your son sure isn't bad either.
As far as brass goes and other more valuable metal, you can check out...
Very nice load! Too bad they are paying only $0.015 for unprepared steel here.
If anyone here is like me, they have tried countless different ways to run their business and have considered countless more. Do you take apart all similar scrap at once, regardless of when they came...