If you work in IT and have access to old equipment, you should be able to do very well!
Desktops and servers are well worth scrapping, quite a bit of value in them (motherboards, cards, RAM, CPU, heat sinks, hard drives, etc)
Laptops are worth collecting too, best to sell them whole to a reputable
ewaste buyer. Newer ones may also have resale value.
Wires and cables are easy, sell to local scrap yard.
The lead acid batteries in the UPS also have value, besides the copper transformers which you already scrap.
Routers, switches, and other network gear also have good boards in them, and usually easy to tear down.
Loose parts such as hard drives, memory, etc are also worth collecting.
Printers, monitors, keyboards and the like are mostly a waste of time to collect and tear down.
There are several good reputable buyers on this forum, they usually post their prices for the various boards and other ewaste materials to give you a better idea. There are others out there as well. Local scrap yards are usually not the right place to sell boards and other higher grade ewaste to, as they usually will not buy or pay a lot less.
If you ship to a buyer, much cheaper to send at least a full pallet of material.
There is a lot of good information on the old threads on here.
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