this is surprising to me. can't you get money for the scrap metal?
BassTurd@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Best case, a load to my local dump is ~$15 min of general waste. Every appliance is $5 or 15 on top of that. I’ve tucked appliances in other appliance before to avoid the fee, but never dumped outside of the landfill.
HubertManne@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For most things you throw away, you can maybe get 50 cents at the a scrapper, of they even take the item
HubertManne@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
I mean thats fine though in the sense it did not cost you. Maybe I am just lucky that I have scrap places that are not to far away. Im in a city to so if you put something like that you will have randos in trucks grab it to bring it to the yards and get the 50 cents although it must be more because they seem to find it pays their gas and enough more to be doing it.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Steel is basically worthless for scap at consumer levels. Copper or aluminum is a different story, which is why a lot of drug addicts steal copper.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So much this, in NYC (less available now since Covid), there are dump sites for all this stuff (Batteries, Paint, Heavy Metals) as long as its personal amounts (ie cant come with a dump truck) it is at no cost. If you are a business and can not handle disposal fees, well you are unsustainable and should not exist.