High everybody! Been lurking here for a while but now am getting into scrapping to keep some stuff *out* of landfills and other stuff *in* my pocket. Found four business clients already, two bike shops (pedals, cables, wheels, spokes, some minor electronics and the occasional wrecked frame - mostly steel and aluminum but the occasional titanium), one auto shop, the latter with over 500lbs each week in various scrap and about 1000lbs tomorrow (lots of brake discs, wire, around 10 radiators and one whole motor) when they finish adjusting my transmission, and one self-storage place. I'm *very* happy with that for one day's work in a city I don't know even a little that I just moved to a week ago.
By way of introductions here wanna share about a kinda-recycling project am working on. For computers (towers and laptops) that are too old to sell for much but new enough that they can browse on-line and use office programs at good speeds, I'm starting to collect them, clean them up and install a linux system (mostly ubuntu) on them which tends to run lighter and faster and breathes some life into older machines. The biggest advantage though is that due to both the higher reliance on programming skills and tremendously supportive on-line Linux community, these machines are excellent for young people to learn programming skills on. It doesn't really help kids who are into gamingm but for those kids that one day want to design a game, it's a great way to learn and when offering them at say $10-35 dollars, it is very approachble for folks who otherwise couldn't afford a home computer or at least not a spare one for learning programming. Good for the kids. Good for the environment. And it's not max value but it's better than scrap price. Did this a little back home in Detroit and got a great response. Nice to meet everyone!
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