why do people collect scrap metal/ aluminum, and what’s it used for/worth?
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Scrap prices have tanked…. So it’s different now. This was years ago..
I had a buddy who had a side hustle of collecting scrap. Cans, bottles, stoves left in alley ways, copper, pipes, anything with metal.
He would sort things into piles in his backyard based on common metals.
There was a scrap yard about 5 miles away. They weigh all the different metals by the pound and give you money for it. Like this. I met here has copper wire in it so here’s x amount of money…
He would make enough money doing this to pay for 3 vacations a year to anywhere he wanted to go- for him, usually Mexico.
But it was annoying because he could not pass up scrap when he saw it and we always had to stop to pick it up.
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