I let some things go for steel if they are close enough in price and the labor isn't worth the money. No sense in tearing something down to get .10 on breakage when you can do it as is for steel price for .08 AND not have to screw with it. Plug ends are now down to .05 a pound, so they go in steel and they don't care. They don't want plastic in motors, so small transformers now go in steel. There for awhile they were really cracking down on plastics, but that seems to have eased up. This yard also processes their own steel into new steel products as a different company product line, so I'm not sure what their deal is. Perhaps some of the material was being shipped overseas and not processed by them.
That being said, there is now a guy at the small scale who somehow got it into his head that suddenly aluminum pots and pans with handles are breakage. I get it, technically, they are. But, a few handles in a SEMI WORTH OF ALUMINUM is still within allowable waste. The yard knows that. They also know most of the folks off the street don't know they should take them off, and frankly, very little of what they get are pots and pans. So, for now I take them off, until the next new guy comes along. It's like the yard manager told me..."It's only really an issue when the people who buy it from us start complaining"...and they haven't ever complained about it. Just somebody who heard something and took it to heart the wrong way.
Long story short,
scrap metal categories and pricing is sort of a moving target.
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Originally Posted by mike1
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