Beginners luck.....

[BDAScrapper]

Good on ya! Are there many others chasing e-waste in your area? Sounds like you don't have a lot of competition right now.

Have you figured out how to ship barrels of scrap into the US yet? Packing it in a barrel sounds like a great idea. Just a little more secure than a gaylord. You might be able to ship your ewaste the same way.

What kinda car is a Polo?

Sorry for all the questions but your thread is pretty interesting.

Jon.

No worries, the more questions I get the more my brain has to think and the more answers I come up with,

Polo is a little VW car, she's about 18 years old now, and she's done so much work it's unbelievable, helped build my house, haul fishing gear, and now scrap.



As for for others doing eWaste on the island, I don't think many, one guy does TVs (flat screens, he goes after the boards, I had a look over his left overs and compared them to a tv that he missed) I was warned off about his my the dump manager, and then there are the guys from Pakistan, India, Shri, etc. They go after the gold finger cards and some times the chips, but they are pretty hack they just smash there way inside the CPU, at the dump, they make a bit of a mess so the dump manger chases them off.

As as for shipping I'm not sure on eWaste yet, I know a container will cost me about $1800 for low value scrap, and 2200 for copper....... So the key is for me to have all my low value out weigh my good stuff which is a pain...
As for packaging, the company I work at supply's fiber glass resin to the island, it comes in 50gal steel drums. I store all of my material in plastic sealing 50gal drums. So when I have enough tonnage, probably 6-8, I will transfer to steel drums, as they can Be sold as well, and ship out. It's labour intensive, but I don't mind it, I can recruit heavy load trucks, a fork lift and man power all for a case of beer. So that works.

As as for shipping the eWaste.... I dunno yet, I'm looking into "flat rate boxes" for our shipping company's, but all my stuff will have to go by Sea.

One day day I would like to be able to have my hands in a scrap yard in the states, or a joint venture. Theory being I can then fill a container every month with scrap, around 25000 lbs, ship it out as low value for 1800, and then have it broken down at the yard and scrap EVERYTHING.

But thats at a ways away......


Thanks for for the interest and will keep you all updated, once I get the pictures working I can show you guys what I'm working with (and against)!