Quote Originally Posted by manjelle View Post
Just my 2cents. I scrap a lot of ewaste part time. My real job is heavy equiptment operator. I drive exactly 35 miles to work one way. And every morn I take interstate 10 to work and keep my eyes peeled for any metal on side the road. On my way home I take hwy90 and check the sides of the road there. Every day I have a lil something in the back of the truck. When I get home I throw it in my trailer next to where I park my truck, ussually takes less than 5 mins. When the trailers full I take it to the scrap yard. Extra money for my drive home. Lots of auto rims and bumpers for some reason, but I like to pick up the smaller things, lil pieces of rebar and chains and chain binders, the smaller the items the more weight when the trailers full. Just something to think about
Thats always a good way to make money. When I worked for PennDOT we would occasionally walk the highways for various reasons, they're pretty much covered in car and truck parts from accidents and breakdowns. Sometimes people even change out parts on the shoulder and just leave the old broken stuff there. But even in the best conditions that type of scrapping is extremely dangerous.