I'm busy with the new job so i'm pretty much out of the mix these days.

What i'm seeing at the local level:

E-waste is very much a specialized area of scrapping. You really have to be in tune with the evolution in technology and the changes in the business environment are rolling through every three to six months. You have to constantly change and adapt in order to make a profit.

This is too complicated for most of the traditional scrappers. They're not able to discern something that should re-sell from something that should go straight to scrap. They're scrapping everything and driving 60 miles to sell their green boards for 30 cents a pound.

They'll get a green board,a little wire, and a few stainless rods out of a printer but what are they getting out of it for the time invested ?

Consider that a printer is mostly plastic and that's going straight into the waste stream rather than being recycled ....



I don't want to set the e-waste specialists against the traditional scrappers but this is the reality of the situation as i see it. It might be awhile before the traditionalists figure out that the e-waste hope isn't panning out for them and lose interest.