Sicon - welcome to the forum, would like to hear your thoughts and background on machines used for processing scrap. If you could do that without giving up guarded information and advertising your company specifically (forum rules). Especially how machines could be utilized by a small scale scrapper, processing scrap that is more profitable by machine. Maybe some idea of "payback" rates of particular type of machines with various scrap feeds. Thanks!
Hip O Gear - I hope you are enjoying and learning as much as I am, reading "Junkyard Planet". The Christmas tree light scrap reference appears a few times in the book. Starting in the introduction, "a single strand of burned-out Christmas tree lights weighs almost nothing in the hand". What happens when one company in China processes 2.2 million pounds of these "American throw-a ways". Are the amount of copper and plastic that is recovered when 20 million pounds is processed annually in China. The book puts things in perspective and a good read for anyone seriously wanting to know more.
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