damage is done

**easyrecycle** · 09-19-2011, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by gustavus

Key word here, Come to you. I admire your business ethics.

Your not acting like a Vulture waiting for something to die, your giving a reputable service.

We all give a great service from those who pick up trash on the curb or from the side of the street to those who run small and large yards.

With out the scrappers the scrap yard would have less metal an could close down. Less metal in the yards means the less metal the refinery's have...less metal they have will filter down into every day life an job love from making cars to building buildings to making ANYTHING that needs metal....costs of thees items will jump sky high.

So even thinking of a scrapper as a vulture is kinda wrong....I know its not the cleanest job, an easy job or any one of those things but its a job that HAS to be done BY someone to keep the life that we have going.

**gustavus** · 09-19-2011, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

We all give a great service from those who pick up trash on the curb or from the side of the street to those who run small and large yards.

With out the scrappers the scrap yard would have less metal an could close down. Less metal in the yards means the less metal the refinery's have...less metal they have will filter down into every day life an job love from making cars to building buildings to making ANYTHING that needs metal....costs of thees items will jump sky high.

So even thinking of a scrapper as a vulture is kinda wrong....I know its not the cleanest job, an easy job or any one of those things but its a job that HAS to be done BY someone to keep the life that we have going.

Excuse me if I find your comments funny and off the wall.

On my guesstimate 95 percent of the scrap your now picking up came from China made from resources we shipped there.

**easyrecycle** · 09-19-2011, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by gustavus

Excuse me if I find your comments funny and off the wall.

On my guesstimate 95 percent of the scrap your now picking up came from China made from resources we shipped there.

Still made with metal that was picked up by hand/truck at some point in time.

There are a few good many items we make here from metal. We have a large metal/steel refinery here as well.

Point is...scrappers play a large role in recycling.

**newattitude** · 09-19-2011, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by gustavus

Excuse me if I find your comments funny and off the wall.

On my guesstimate 95 percent of the scrap your now picking up came from China made from resources we shipped there.

Which is why I deal mostly with the yard that ships 95% of the scrap we bring there to the nearest big town with steel mills. the other one I use sends it overseas. Trust me, I asked each place where their scrap goes and both were honest about it.

Copper Head, keep your chin up and your attitude positive and things will be ok as long as they see how you deal with things.People will learn and see you are an honest scrapper.

**Junkernaut** · 09-19-2011, 04:04 PM

I do not have any disasters going on here except Rick Perry as governor. So I just find scrap where I can...I try to use the not so taken care of neighborhoods but oddly enough. I am 1000% confident now after just a few minutes of it. That here in the bible belt..drinking is big..and if you have an hour or 2 and your in the right places...its possible to acquire 50 pounds of aluminum from beer cans haha. As for the Damage done..as of Sept 1'st we cannot recycle utility polls without paperwork..Cool I guess except I came across 3 that look like they are from the 1970's and no one not even the city knows wtf. Now someone has to come out and instead of me just showing up with an Electric Reciprocating Saw and cutting them up into bits that will fit in my long bed...I have to go back out and meet with a city worker at some time or they have to go check them out and get back to me... I picked up a bunch of little RR spikes and turns out now in Tx you cannot recycle those either without paperwork. Though I picked up the spikes before I came to this site and found out you could not do this haha.

I just started out myself and mostly rely on luck as I have no possible way of advertising until more "stable" courier work comes in. Though I am hopeful everyday I will come across abandoned stuff here and there. I am more interested in picking up junk cars and scrapping those but need a 16ft trailer or car hauler. Around here those are EASY money, or can be..