Saroro 
I have pretty good sucess with local businesses. I usually offer to purchase it at right around 25-35 dollars a trailer full. I currently pick up from the local Habitat for Humanity resale store, lots of office buildings (mainly computer and office equip), schools, computer repair shops, and similar type places. I generally dont look for scrap metal per se but rather for computers and electronics. I look for office buildings, call centers, and similar places with larger amount of computers. I carry business cards and recyle agreements and scales with me at all times.
Also dont overlook scrap yards themselves. I buy LOTS of circuit boards from scrap yards at 1 to 2 dollars per pound and turn around and resell for over 4 dollars per pound. One yard alone gets me 500-1000 pounds per month. The best yards for these kind of deals are the smaller yards. If your yard is currently not handling circuit boards its because the are unaware of the value. Tell them to purchase at .50 per pound and you will buy for 1.00 per pound. SOme of the yards around here will also let you buy anything in the tin pile for .25 per pound as well so when we go we cherry pick that for computers as well.
cell phone stores are a great place to go to as well. Scrap cell phones go for close to 6 dollars a pound. We purchase from St vincent de paul, salvation army and similar stores on a monthly basis for 1.00 per pound and resell for 6 dollars a pound. Last pick up from salvation army was 100 pounds. Most of these phones are to old or beat up for resale and they were just putting in the scrap pile. We also offer schools free cell phone collection boxes and they call us when they are full and we pay a dollar a pound as well.
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