Yup, its a open yard, about 30 X 40 feet where people can just dump their scrapmetal, cars, roofing iron, fridges, washing machines & any old steel of any sort.
Its actually a fenced off/open to the road, but still on his land, part of the owners business.
It started out just for dumping cars, but at the same time he did it people relised cars are worth money & so they just started dumping any metal there.
Since its always open, he gets a lot of people who only have weekends to dump off their scrap & others who just want to get rid off their steelish crap instantly, without having to 'deal' with other people. 'Dump & run'.
Its also advertised a couple of times a week in the paper & the odd supermarket bulletin board.
That costs a little & he figures in the end it pays for the wages of one of his workers.
He gets NZ$110 a ton for it, including any rubbish thats in there too. Its all weight.
Unfortunately people do dump off rubbish like tires & CRT Tv's, plasticly crap like vacuum cleaners, then theres the others who take anything they want, thats not so bad if they actually have a use for it, like a 'project' or something.
The worst ones are the ones who just take the heavy iron & then sell it & pocket the money, I call that theft.
Thats been a big problem, I would like to think that I'm helping stop that from happening but I can't be there 24hrs a day.
I was pleasantly surprised when he got the money for the iron I sold. (NZ$250)
Its all properly official now, I can tell people to "bugger off" if I want, & I put stuff aside for the other guy who picks up washing machines & pays $ to the owner for them.
Depending on your situation yah could do a similar thing, section off part of your yard for loose scrapmetal dumping.
Problem is its gotta be open all day at least, the people who take metal away & the odd bit of noise @ 3am....
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