Can you make a living scrapping?

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asked Nov 11, 2019 in Conservation by Proluscv (300 points)
Can you make a living scrapping?

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answered Nov 11, 2019 by Grahlu (51,270 points)
A lot of people do make a living scrapping metal so it is possible to make a living by scrapping metal.

But the people that od make a living scrapping metal are those running the scrap metal yards that you sell the scrap metal too.

Those scrap metal yards buy the scrap metal from people and then sell the scrap metal to metal foundries to be melted down.

But if you're just going around looking for scrap metal and then selling it to the scrap metal yards then you cannot really make much money from the scrap metal.

Right now scrap metal prices here are $20.00 per ton for steel, appliances and Tin and it takes a lot of metal to make a ton and it takes gasoline or other fuel to deliver the scrap metal to the scrap yard.

You can make some extra money by collecting and selling scrap metal but don't expect to get rich and always call the scrap yard before you go because it could be $100.00 per ton one day and the next day it could be down to $20.00 per ton.

I sell some scrap metal to make some extra money but I don't do it for a living though and would be really hard to rely on scrap metal for making a living.

The real money is more in copper, brass, aluminum etc but it can be hard to find a lot of copper, brass, aluminum etc.

The copper and brass are what is most hard to find but you can find copper in window air conditioners that people throw away.

The copper tubing, copper in the ac compressors etc.

Once you cut the compressor open then the copper in the ac compressor usually just comes right out.

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