I think alot of scrappers know about the e waste scrap...

i pulled up to the yard on monday to get rid of my 20 scrap computer cases, HD cases. and when i walk out my truck to unload someone spotted all the pc. and didn't even get to my tailgate and someone already asking me if they can have all my ewaste i had they asked me about the 16 pounds of hard drives telling me i cant scrap those if i had the boards but the boards are long gone and told them i sold all of it, just wasting my time and trying to scare me out of my scrap. anit the first time this happen some guy on craigslist threaten me with some bogus make believe laws and just wanted to steal my scrap and i just canceled the deal and he was just acting like an a** the hole time he was there. But i guess its every man for them self...dont get screwed over.

You should of offered to buy that guys Ewaste

Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling

You should of offered to buy that guys Ewaste

he had none. he told me he had a buyer some where. so he just was trying to hustle me.

Seriously. just keep your self educated on what right and whats pure Bs.

E scrap is the new Catolytic converter, and will soon be as bad Im afraid, learn all you can Knowledge is the only tool to fight what is to come.

I was at the scrap yard one day and the guy next to me was unloading his truck and he had 2 low grade boards from a tv so I asked him what he was going to do with them he told me to make an offer on the and I said I will give you .50. He said h@#l no there worth 10.00. I said good luck getting that.LOL

I just picked up 21 computers at an auction. None had hard drives, one was a completely empty shell, and in 4 of them whoever pulled the hard drives not only pulled the memory sticks but also pulled the CPUs. The only good news on the last 4 is they didn't know what they were doing scrap wise and dumped the heat sinks back in the computer, one of which was a half pound of 100% copper.

Never thought to check for missing CPUs before.

Starbits

if you can get a glance at the back of them, that'll tell you half of what you need to know. If the Mobo is missing, you'll note that instantly, and if there's empty slots where cards have been removed, that'll tell you more

lol, how on earth could ewaste be the next catalytic converter?
I'm assuming you mean it's value, well, i'm still perplexed as to why anyone would buy a pc to scrap.
someone mentioned .50c for a low grade tv board? is this serious or do I need to pay membership
to read the real stuff?

australia couldn't be any different to america, infact we probably pay most for electrical goods at retail level,
there is so much ewaste available it's not funny.
I bypassed at least 50 tv's today driving by houses that are doing hard rubbish.
if I wanted too I could fill a 5 acre block with tv's stacked 4 high.
the only ones i'm grabbing are the flat screen plasmas & lcd's now as I can slide 6 flat into my hatch without a problem.
i've been scrapping for just a month but surely ewaste is just as common everywhere?

I do like my tv yolks so whilst i'm out i'll spend some time scrapping a few tv's in the street, only takes a few minutes to
undo the back screws, cut out the board, undo the yolk and pull up the degaussing cable and close it back up.
this now saves me having to deal with tv crt's, I have lots more space in the car that allows me to stay out longer picking up exactly what I want, which is small items like phones, vacc's, laptops, keyboards, towers, wire ect.

If you do have hard rubbish then surely all you would need to do is track the districts that are doing it?
I just go to their websites, there's a hard rubbish collection going somewhere almost all the time.
infact i'm looking fwd to when there ain't any going so I can spend more time scrapping.
now australia is almost as big as america is, yet we have 22 million people, you's have what 350 million?
surely there must be an absolute **** load of ewaste?

I don't know, maybe I haven't been into it long enough to experience lean times, but just on the principle of it,
I wouldn't pay for someone's junk no matter how desperate I was, the money comes from doing the work to scrap it,
not to just take possession of it from who would otherwise throw it in the trash.