ever wonder how much space we are saving in the landfills? - Page 2

most of the plastic on escrap is abs, i guarantee my recycling service loves how much im giving them for free as they sort the plastic and bale and resell it

If the fluff we send makes it to China I am sure it is burnt to make energy or other items.

Looks like we process fluff here with only fiber and sand going to the landfills http://www.recyclingtoday.com/shredd...nd-du-lac.aspx

Originally Posted by Copper Head

What we sell to the yard is mostly going to go back in to the earth where it came from. About 4 years ago the yards around here took plastic at about 25% now 1% . The only true way to say we save the land fill is to fess up with what we also don't want - plastic - ECT - ECT - till then we are still part of the problem.
If scrappers were to recycle all the fluff we deal with then we can live the statement " keeping all these items out of the landfills "

Sure the few batteries found in a dumpster thats real.

This is true on most cases I use a waste management dumpster for all my waste. This is a company that will pick out everything that can be recycled and then process the food and bio waste into either animal food or compost. There is little actual waste in my business or house hold for that matter. just saying there is a way to recycle your "fluff" even if it is not profitable it is still good for the earth and our dwindling resources. what copperhead said is pretty much the norm in most households sadly it's enough to make this indian cry

Lets throw a few back-of-the-envelope numbers at it:

Metal or alloy lb per cu ft
aluminum 162
zinc 445
steel 490
brass 534
copper 557
lead 708

Soooooo... just from clean metals, not ins wire, motors, transformers, boards, etc etc etc... I'm only at about 20.8 cubic feet year to date solid metal.

That's depressing.

To day i found 200 pounds of tires and wheels they were 16 inch truck wheels (3 of them) it was a potential land fill item from a home owner . By the way the yards pays $12 per ton or what I received $1.04 that is not really good incentive. very often some good deed items pay very little. But took all of 3 min to stop truck and load and another 3 to special weigh $1.04 in 6 mins.
still I am not hand loading a ton for $12

Originally Posted by Copper Head

still I am not hand loading a ton for $12

Putting forty items that weigh 50 pounds apiece into a truck would probably take me all of 10 minutes. I'd do that for $12. Driving that to the yard & unloading, then driving back is another matter, though. $12/ton is some LOW-PAYING material! The absolute lowest I've seen at my yard was $100/ton (actually $0.05/#, but same-same) for what they called #2 Export. It was a truckload of plastic framed - xmas light wrapped yard art. Apparently some people just buy new every year rather than mess with storage.

Originally Posted by auminer

Putting forty items that weigh 50 pounds apiece into a truck would probably take me all of 10 minutes. I'd do that for $12. Driving that to the yard & unloading, then driving back is another matter, though. $12/ton is some LOW-PAYING material! The absolute lowest I've seen at my yard was $100/ton (actually $0.05/#, but same-same) for what they called #2 Export. It was a truckload of plastic framed - xmas light wrapped yard art. Apparently some people just buy new every year rather than mess with storage.

I think I need ask them, seems like a total ripoff on that item
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NOPE yard man was CLEAR $12 per ton

Spring Cleanup has netted 5000#'s just in steel since Sunday...Curbco is King this month.

Originally Posted by auminer

Well, I'm shooting for 16 tons total weight at my yard this year. Not to say that a whole lot of the stuff I'm diverting wouldn't have been scrapped by someone else, but some wouldn't have.

My understanding is there's a coupla folks on this forum that handle 16 tons before breakfast!

I suppose I'ma have to up my target for the year... My spreadsheet for 2013 totals 31,533 pounds as of now, and my truck's loaded with at least 700 more for a trip to the yard tomorrow.

20 tons is well within reach, but with some luck I might pull off 25 tons.