Anyone sold low grade boards latley - Page 2

One of our local yards here doesn't take low grade boards at all (Admiral). The other one I deal with (GLE) calls them "breakage" and last time paid 17 cents/lb, which seemed more than fair. They also accept as "breakage" clipped off wiring connectors, 110v plugs, etc.

Unfortunately, they only paid $1/lb for the high grade boards I had. I've been advertising and searching, but have not been able to come up with much of anything in the way of scrapped computers for a couple of months now, and was sitting on 15 lbs of motherboards that needed to get out of my garage. Didn't seem worthwhile to ship 'em.



Been starting to see lots more steel curbside lately, the weather seems to be taking the competition out of the picture.

I would ship 15# in a minute even at $3.90 lb thats a few more bucks in your pocket

Yea with high grade board if you had 15lb and only got paid $3 for them you still got $45. Even if it cost you $20 to ship you still made $25. At $1 per lb you only got $15

As far as low grade boards I have found a buyer paying .15 and about 20 min away. Just gonna keep piling them up until i have around 200lb

Anyone know a buyer in virginia or maryland?

Originally Posted by hammerdown

Yea with high grade board if you had 15lb and only got paid $3 for them you still got $45. Even if it cost you $20 to ship you still made $25. At $1 per lb you only got $15

I appreciate what you're saying, but my garage has to have the space to do everything I'm involved in: scrapping, woodworking, car repair, beer making, beer drinking So when something sits around for long enough, it needs to be turned into money to support one of the other habits...and boxing these up and shipping them would easily have taken an hour or more. Not worth it for $10 extra. In the meantime, I just spent hours yesterday working on a car outside in the cold because the garage is full up with other stuff.

Anyone know of an ewaste buyer local to the Detroit area?

You can try Dynamic out of Wiscousin. they pay about 24 per pound.

Originally Posted by volvoscrapper

The thread is re. low grade, correct?

Does it really make sense to ship low grade?

If somebody has a secret for this, I'd like to hear it. As far as I can tell, low grade pays about .15/lb max., which means 100 pounds of low grade grosses $15.00 and I'm not sure how you ship 100 pounds anywhere in a manner that makes it profitable.

My yards won't take anything with curcit boards in them. I pay .25 for low grade and still make a profit.

Ok, think people need to understand, Taking low grade high grade any grade power supplies to metal yard is bad bad idea.. whats in these Hmmmm, TOXIXCS stuff, Thats why We recycle it, the Right way, I don't want lead in my water, or for peace sake lead in My BEER, yea yea it gets filtered besides the point.

It really bothers Me that some people would go to the extreme of tossing low grades into metal pile to be shredded... Tell You what, Send them to Me, and I'll pay you for them,

I only deal with companies that are enviromental safe.

Not saying all people are doing it, but I see alot of it .. in and on this site.

so lets keep our earth looking Fresh and Pretty...

Thats My 3 cents.

Good post bnb. I got to thinking if I pull every last piece of plastic off to be recycled without getting paid for it what would be the point of doing more harm by dumping the toxic boards in with shred. I did some searching and found a local buyer for my low grade

recycling itself isn't environmentally friendly anyway, it's done for money not the planet.
the amount of energy and resources needed to turn things into raw materials again defeats the purpose,
well, it makes corporate types feel good about themselves but in reality it's all fluff, recycling has a huge impact on the environment
in itself, most scrappers feel good about jumping on the recycling bandwagon, but yeah, fluff.

So your saying that separating the materials and sending them off to be reused isnt any better than dumping it all in a landfill?

environmentally, yes, it takes more energy then producing it or mining it actually

So basically what your saying is that you would rather drink. bathe, and swim in contaminated water than to use a little extra energy? Do you think energy is the only cost to mining or recycling? Are you afraid were going to use up our energy sources before new ones are found?
Not trying to start a war just trying to see what page your on.

just read what I say as I say it, adding words into my mouth only confuses things as I then have to talk about something else.
so many open questions, man, go scrap out a tv or something, or read up on things, contaminants don't magically disappear because the're recycled.

Didn't mean to offend you but saying that dumping these items in a landfill is better for the planet than recycling them is what I call fluff. I don't scrap TVs and hopefully you don't either because id hate to know where all the leaded glass goes with the way you look at things.