Originally Posted by
PistoneScrapProcessing
@ht1 I realize that. It's like that everywhere though. Most yards are always concentrated among other scrapyards. It's not like they put them in nice residential neighborhoods. There's one right across the street from where I'm at and another one a mile away. Go mile across the bridge and u can find 5 of them in a two mile stretch. It's competitive but if u honestly don't know what ur doing or can't grade ur scrap right then u kinda deserve what u get. When you go to a scrapyard you gotta have ur game face on and be organized with ur material. Scams are everywhere. Remember the scrapyard always wants to pay you as little as possible so they can make as much as possible. For every great customer that comes through the scale you get idiots with rocks in the aluminum cans and trash mixed in with the scrap, etc. dealing with people is a crap shoot you have ur good and bad customers.
Go Farther west, scrap yards have a tendency to spread out, and often use a Kiosk system literally a tiny little purchasing area, specializing in cans but able to buy anything in small quantities. that ship to full service yards regularly
The only reason for scrap yards to congregate is rail or port access, or zoning regulations, otherwise spreading out to better service customers would serve them better (excluding steel purchasing which just requires too much space and equipment($$$) to spread out over a small territory), now of course a yard near a major manufacturing center has a great foot up.
I said nothing about customers, I have went deeply into that elsewhere
V/r HT1
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