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scrapbabe97 How NOT to clean up a site 10-07-2015, 10:45 PM
scrapbabe97 http://i952.photobucket.com/al... 10-07-2015, 10:51 PM
Mechanic688 Wow, what a disaster. That... 10-07-2015, 11:35 PM
farrarrecycling Well be reporting it to the... 10-08-2015, 12:50 AM
Scrappah It is quite a mess. Take... 10-08-2015, 02:48 AM
diesel1 +1 on this. Best to walk away... 10-08-2015, 03:42 AM
AdmiralAluminum I disagree. I would... 10-08-2015, 09:42 AM
erewen Wow. That's AFTER the... 10-08-2015, 05:34 AM
HT1 I've done clean ups that bad.... 10-08-2015, 06:21 AM
nutpie Yep. I'd tell the owner i'll... 10-08-2015, 07:56 AM
JustInTime Really? Fixed properly how?... 10-08-2015, 08:36 AM
gus4113 is that whats left of the bus... 10-08-2015, 09:10 AM
matador I agree. I'm not a huge fan... 10-08-2015, 09:04 AM
scrapbabe97 There is over 1 million... 10-08-2015, 09:26 AM
HT1 what is sort of sad about... 10-08-2015, 09:59 AM
scrapbabe97 Its right on state property... 10-08-2015, 09:49 AM
nutpie I'm not usually one to argue... 10-08-2015, 10:57 AM
RagnBone Forget all that, report it... 10-08-2015, 12:13 PM
nutpie Better Business Bureau 10-08-2015, 12:25 PM
logansryche The BBB is like the FDA and... 10-08-2015, 02:31 PM
hobo finds A lot of trash in Maine! 10-08-2015, 11:05 AM
nutpie That's where us "recyclers"... 10-08-2015, 11:11 AM
JustInTime HA! I was thinking the same... 10-08-2015, 11:36 AM
scrapbabe97 I just called DEP today left... 10-08-2015, 02:45 PM
matador Whatever anyone else says, it... 10-08-2015, 03:21 PM
Thrifty This is what it looks like to... 10-08-2015, 09:10 PM
scrapbabe97 This site clean up has been... 10-08-2015, 09:33 PM
farrarrecycling I will add some on that Raven... 10-08-2015, 09:48 PM
SuperDave There should be other ways to... 10-09-2015, 08:52 AM
AdmiralAluminum That's probably because... 10-09-2015, 10:12 AM
armygreywolf DNR in my state would have... 10-09-2015, 09:46 AM
logansryche It'd be like that here in NY... 10-09-2015, 11:08 AM
scrapbabe97 Got a hold of the DEP they... 10-09-2015, 09:48 AM
Scrappah I'm at a loss .... i just... 10-09-2015, 11:51 AM
AdmiralAluminum That's why I said this should... 10-09-2015, 12:08 PM
logansryche I believe the thread was... 10-09-2015, 12:12 PM
scrapbabe97 Yes this thread is to show... 10-09-2015, 12:20 PM
AdmiralAluminum I wasn't attacking you for... 10-09-2015, 12:39 PM
Scrappah It's mostly because things... 10-09-2015, 01:06 PM
scrapbabe97 Well the fact is that we are... 10-09-2015, 12:16 PM
Scrappah Simple answer ......... 10-09-2015, 01:00 PM
Longhairboy I'm assuming you meant... 10-09-2015, 02:11 PM
MattInTheHat How NOT to clean up a site 10-09-2015, 03:46 PM
mthomasdev I was thinking the same... 10-09-2015, 04:50 PM
Scrappah From what i've seen over the... 10-09-2015, 05:12 PM
scrapbabe97 As what I have told you can... 10-09-2015, 05:19 PM
Scrappah It's a crap deal for you.... 10-09-2015, 05:40 PM
matador I don't know why they... 10-09-2015, 06:08 PM
Scrappah Ummm .... trite sayings are... 10-10-2015, 04:46 AM
bullion Maybe if you put an ad in... 10-10-2015, 12:46 AM
bigburtchino Personally I can only see... 10-10-2015, 01:41 AM
armygreywolf When I read all this I was... 10-10-2015, 07:59 AM
scrapbabe97 That's why I wanted the DEP... 10-10-2015, 11:39 AM
armygreywolf I for one will say thanks for... 10-10-2015, 04:03 PM
Raythewrench You need to get serious real... 10-10-2015, 05:22 PM
farrarrecycling I can help out on this one.... 10-10-2015, 09:24 PM
bigburtchino The more I try to understand... 10-10-2015, 11:14 PM
Raythewrench I also have A CDL and Having... 10-11-2015, 11:45 AM
logansryche I think it's best to let this... 10-11-2015, 12:39 PM
Mechanic688 I agree and it is closed at... 10-11-2015, 04:28 PM
parrothead What a shame. 10-11-2015, 06:01 PM
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    How NOT to clean up a site

    This job site is located in Talmadge Maine. The clean up was awarded to another large recycler a few towns away we were only on site to remove the ewaste, and non ferrous metals we could. This thread will cover how not to do a site cleanup. We had no say in this and the other junkyard (no names will be said for privacy). This site had over 20 vehicles including military equipment and trucks, 5 school buses, a mobile home full of stuff, 2 houses full of stuff and each bus was full from the front to the back and from the floor to the ceiling.
    The job was started on July 3, 2015 and my partner went on the 4th when they started removing the vehicles to pickup the ewaste and start the non ferrous. The first day over 3000lbs of computers were removed. Over 3400lbs of non ferrous were removed and we removed the mercury switches from each vehicle prior to removal from the job site.
    Most vehicles didnt have enignes or transmissions some are just cabs. What happened is the junk yard (who is licensed at city and state level just like us) is just taking what has the most value to him (#1 iron mostly and complete vehicles). There were fridges full of rotten meat since the owner of the property died in August 2014 and no one was called in for over a year after his death. His family started the junkyard over 50 years ago and they just kept adding to it over the years into the day he died. My partner offered to do the clean up with a set price per ton, no cost for dumpsters, and to have a fence put up along route 1 into finished but the owners sister went with the other junkyard and this is the final result. I offered the other junkyard to clean up the rotten meat but my offer was not taken and the junkyard owner decided to knock over the fridges and let the whole place smell like rotten meat. Which by the way stunk so bad that we could not work there for some time. we came back yesterday and was astonished to see what happened within three weeks ( we took a week to work on another site and the truck decided to breakdown for the other two.) and see that all the stuff that should of been put into dumpsters (which were never brought in to remove the trash) was pushed back into the woods and into the ground. With everything bulldozed we could not get to anything that we could or recovered or scrap. This shows that people can be selfish and rude to not only to people but the environment and the town. There is open chemicals everywhere and tanks that could blow up with one wrong move and piles of scrap mixed with trash to fall on top of someone. Someone that would not be paying attention could be killed easily someone with a cigarette and drives by and flicks a butt out of the window into the area could blow up about 3 towns. There is enough propane tanks to heat up a few houses for a year or two.
    Here are some pictures from before. There isn't many but some.




    here are some pictures of the disaster after.








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