I need help finding

I live in the South and been scrapping for about 2 years and now i can't find ****. I go through the city and town dumpster diving, getting stuff out of peoples dumpster, trash can, pulling **** out from under bridges, pick up cans, keep my food cans, just w/e i can do to find it.

But now I think that its dried up around here, I can't find anything. It takes me 2 weeks to find a load that will be worth 40 dollars. I usually try and pile up aluminum and copper.



I just need some ideas as to where to go to find scrap and things that are worth something that most people think wouldn't be worth anything.

Have you tried storage lockers? More and more businesses are using them to work out of and their using their dumpsters to get rid of their waste. It works great for me!!!

If you are out in the country,look for a row of mailboxes that has a lot of sh** around them[garbage and such]. Drive down that road and most often you will find old appliances, stacked steel, cars dieing in the pasture or woodland. Sometimes you will need to fork out a few bucks for it most often some the older residents will be happy to get it cleared off their lot.

The thing is in the south, and I can say this as a certified '**** Yankee' living in Alabama that people are living a little differently down here. They focus on the worth of things more and everyone here has a truck and a trailer and they can haul their own stuff off with. Don't underestimate the overwhelming appeal of meth, people are wired up on that s**t and they can't hold a real job so we are competing with them as well. In fact, we have to work twice as hard down here. If I were you I would focus on the nicer areas of town, restaurants/businesses that are closing down or being remodeled/rebuilt, etc. The key is also forming relationships with people like electricians and framers who don't have much time to deal with scrap. I got an associate who's side work is cleaning up after electricians. He spends an hour or so walking around a house that's being built and he collects the romex left behind (scrap cutoffs) and spends that next day stripping it. He does good at it. Don't give up, just gotta work harder and smarter than your competition.