Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
I can't say every bit I throw on a load is pure steel, but I will say that it is at least something that has some metal on it. I won't throw the fan blades I have snapped off a ceiling fan in the load because it just feels wrong. Most of my pay is brass and copper and aluminum and the steel is the extra debris I get from scrapping the good stuff. They have helped me bring top dollars from my good stuff and I don't want to get tagged as a douchecanoe for adding garbage to the fluff part of my goodies.
I never add garbage, but I dont get rid of stuff that they would have taken whole as shred either. Not sure if that is a bad thing to do, thats just what I figured everyone did and what was expected. For example, if I take apart a dryer and take the engine and other bits out, any peices that come off, go right back into it to go to the shred pile, plastic or not. They would have bought it all whole as shred anyways... I have never had an issue doing this and assumed this was what was supposed to be done.