Stranger Things to Scrap No upside down here, no demigorgans, and especially no telepathic kids flying around..just stranger things to scrap or have been scrapped in the past. After years of writing blogs for Desert Metals Recycling we have listed the best ways, the worst ways and hopefully the most profitable ways to find and sell your…
When choosing a scrap yard, many people make the mistake of shopping price and location only. We have discussed this many times before and the reality is, there is much to consider. While pricing for your scrap is important, and location may factor into your time and spend , there are a number of other factors…
Being roughly 220 miles from the closest body of ocean (salt) water, it is difficult to think, while being here in Tucson, that their might be tons of untapped scrap metal lying at the bottom of the ocean floor, just waiting to be plucked, separated and sold. Actually sounds like fun, even more it sounds…
Talk to most scrappers, some might call what they do as fun, bust most just call it work. One thing everyone can agree on, and assuming that most people who read this are in the scrap business in the first place, there are some fun facts about scrapping most other people do not know, like-The…
It can never be mentioned enough, or executed enough, scrap metal safety. Inside a scrap metal facility it is paramount. It is practiced and preached on a regular basis. For the scrap metal collector, who is a free agent, and really abides by their own standard and set of rules (probably the reason you got…
So you’ve been scrapping for some time now. You have it all down, the right buildings, the right neighborhoods, and the overall best days to check dumpsters and garage sales before anyone else. All in a weeks work. Free scrap metal is great, and it’s the way most regular or full time scrappers make money….
Odd question, really never thought of, right? We rarely think “what could happen if we didn’t recycle our scrap metals?” Some thoughts on this are simple, like “if you don’t recycle, that fridge will sit there forever!” Not quite what we are talking about, but you get the picture. So we thought we would give…
Just like any other business, whether it be full time or part time, scrapping metals for cash takes work, time and and of course money. If your a someone who does this on a daily basis, in order to be most profitable, you have to know how to curb your cost in order to keep…
To say the metal recycling industry, or just the steel and iron industry over all has been tough, is an understatement. Over production, an economy getting back on its feet and trade deals gone bad have led to enormous fluctuations in the metals industry in the past 5 years. especially the last 3. So we…
Remember that story about the guy that decided to use his scuba gear to go from golf course to golf course, and retrieve golf balls from deep or murky water hazards and resale them back to the golf course? Yeah, me either..but here’s the golf ball retrieval kings story, albeit far fetched. It really got…