I'm looking at bidding on some city buses for scrap. My regular yard guy always complains about the trash (plastic seats, wood floor, etc.) but he will generally pay a bit less than whatever current price is for car bodies. I talked to the rep for a bigger yard that has a large shredder, thinking they might pay a bit more because they can process and separate the various metals, trash, etc. more efficiently. The rep told me that they would deduct weight for the tires (no problem, that's business as usual) AND 30% for trash. So; on a 20K + bus, they would pay shred price on only about 15K.



I need to have another conversation with the rep but I'm confused as to why they will pay shred rate on the full weight of "dirty" sheet and car bodies, knowing that there is about 30% (the rep's statement) trash in that material but they want to deduct the 30% on buses.