What should I recycle?

Question

What is worth the most? I heard of people reycling metal scraps and making $100?? I remember when I recycled cans and made $1!

Where do you find scrap metal to recycle???? I've never just seen metal laying around before. I don't understand how someone would come up with all that metal?

I have a tourmaline ceramic flat iron, bike, and some old chargers. Any of these items good?

And do magazines count as paper? I have a ton of old ones laying around.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

A great place to start is www.earth911.org. they have lots of info on recycling. The site can locate a local recycle center and list what items they take. They will also give you contact information for the various centers and you can check there rates. Sorting properly increases value.

As far as scrap metal, that can be hard. It will likely be a lot of work. In general you need to be able to separate the metals to get money for them. The one that comes to mind as valuable is copper. It is found in many places, things that charge and create heat. You may want to contact local thrift stores and ask them for household appliances that don't work. Usually heat coils (think toaster)and motors (think record player) have copper. If you have a local radio controlled car track near you, see if they will give you the old electric motors that racers throw away, they have copper coils and lead. All of this will be a lot of work, but if you can get the items for free your time will equal money.

A couple general things. The easiest items are cans and bottles with a redemption value, water bottles, soda bottles and cans. Newspaper and cardboard are also easy, you may have to look a little harder for white paper and mixed paper. Glass seems to be commonly taken, as well as most 1 and 2 plastics.

Work out a system that works for you. I found having a 2nd garbage can in the kitchen and a paper only can in the den work well for me. As they get full my son takes them to the sorting area next to the garbage can, when we have enough we load it up and take it in. I've found that having to take a trip to the garage everytime you have a soda tends to limit sucess.

Drop by your local recycle center and see how they want it sorted. Usually they want the lids off, sometimes they want items rinsed. Each location sets it's own rules. So call or drop by before you have a huge load it can save you time and make the trip more profitable.

Answer 2

It is best if you recycle everything!

Answer 3

1, METAL SCRAP GETS MONEY:2,RECYCLE CANS YES

3.OLD NEWS PAPER PEOPLE COME AND AND TAKE OLD MAGAZINES , OLD PAPERS, METAL SCRAP ANY THING THEY WEIGH AND TAKE FROM YOU  FOR STANDARD PRICE , ALL JUNK THEY TAKE EVEN PLASTIC BUCKETS ETC

MAGAZINES  ARE TAKEN CHEAP I KG FOR RS 4 . NEWS PAPER 6 RS A KG,  LIKE THAT THEY TAKE AND GIVE MONEY?

Answer 4

I found scrap metal to recycle right in my own backyard.  I had an aluminum shed that I wanted to replace and was able to recycle the entire thing once I tore it down.  And, yes because of the sheer amount and size of it, they paid a pretty penny for it.  

And, as for the magazines you have, consider donating them to a local senior center, retirement home or nursing home because they love getting them, use them for craft projects and they will get at least one more use before being recycled.

Answer 5

I don't about all of your concerns. I do know that metal is countable however you find it. Quite naturally, paper is desirable in whatever form that you present it. Peace!

Answer 6

Recycle --broadcast-- knowledge, good ideas, & conscience about the environment. Information and knowledge are stuff that do not deteriorate with use. On the contrary, they increase their value with use.

One good idea is to recycle (care about, adopt) poor children already existing in undeveloped countries, and not create new babies (and increasing overpopulation, over-consumption and overshoot)  

Recycle MEMES not GENES.

Answer 7

One legally finds scrap metal usually as a result of their job (i.e. - they create it as a part of their job).

Other people find scrap metal illegally by going to construction related business and stealing copper, aluminum and steel from the office or job site.  The jail time and fines from this are NOT cost effective.  Most construction sites now have video survailence to catch people robbing them.  Stealing man hole covers for scap is also illegal.  The recycling place will often report you to the police for attempting to turn a man hoel cover.

Your items listed are not good for scrap.

If you want to get into metal recycling, try approching places of business (offices mostly) and asking to put recycling cans for plastic and aluminum in the employee break areas. You will need to pick them up every other day, but some places may generate a lot of stuff for you.

I did this while working as a facility manager for a 3 story office building, until management figured out that I was making $200.00 a month  from it.  Then, they suddenly implemented a recycling program as they felt I had given myself an unauthorized raise.

It was really bad because I was donating the $200.00 a month to a homeless shelter (I was making just above minimum wage and had no extra cash, but wanted to find a way to donate to the shelter).

When I left, they cancelled the program as it was too much work.  Plus they started locking the dumpsters so no one could get into it to get the recyclables.

Answer 8

Trash day.  It's actually a fun event in my town now, you see lots of other people out looking through the trash for valuables.  Last night I found a working microscope.

Answer 9

everything ;)