So The 2017 Scrap Metal Fund Raising Begins However, every little bit helps and adds up on the overall financial picture over an entire year.
#Spring cleaning vs scrap everything free
So, although a vital component of Free Stuff 4 Daily Needs is metal recycling it is far from being a living wage. Also you cannot factor in gas, or wear and tear on the truck. So you can’t factor in the personal time needed to pick up, strip down the metals, reload, and deliver. Only an average of $1,200 a year is raised.
#Spring cleaning vs scrap everything for free
Moving scrap metal, although an important money making endeavour for Free Stuff 4 Daily Needs, is not a “get rich quick scheme”. Like I mentioned previously, we moved that final weight at least 3 times before it reached its final destination at Triple M Metals. So the total weight of metals that we drove to Orillia in 2016 was 16,698 pounds. Typically we move the metal once by picking up the donation, unloading at home, stripping it down, and finally reloading to take to Triple M Metals. It was surprising to realize just how much metal Barry and I had actually moved. However, in 2016 I did do that calculation. Other years we hadn’t really paid much attention to how many pounds of metals we moved. How Much Scrap Metal Do We Send For Metal Recycling? When they are full, we take these along with us when we do a truckload of scrap metal. So between the 3 bin system I’ve set up, we are able to re-route all kitchen metals into these bins. Pop cans have to be separated because they are considered a higher grade of aluminum, therefore, more money. A separate bin is labeled “Aluminum Cans”. Scrap Metal Collection Begins In The KitchenĪs we look to make money out of anything we can, I have even set up a scrap metal collection system in our own kitchen. The refrigerator becomes a giant tote bin. So much easier than picking up each little can or screw individually. Filling the refrigerator cavities up with the small items makes it easier to just pull the whole thing off the back of the truck.
You can only put a couple of fridges on the back of a half ton truck at a time.īarry typically removes the doors so we can lay the fridge on it’s back, and we just fill them up with the small metal items. This load was lighter because of the bulkiness of the items. This is a low weight load as we normally try to put about 800-900 pounds on the truck.
The first load of 560 pounds has been taken down for 2017. So as soon as we are able, we start loading and delivering the scrap metal to Orillia. However, as the snow disappears, the metal reveals itself. Normally over the winter as broken metal items have been donated to us, Barry will typically just go out into the back yard and just throw things in the snow bank. This week as the snow has been melting, although still very cold and windy, Barry has begun finding the scrap metals. Shred metals is the lowest grade and prices. So although we collect and sell those for scrap too, the bulk of the metals we deal with in a year are considered “shred”. The prices for things such as aluminum and copper metals is higher. Now this is the prices for that ordinary, nothing special metals. So instead of being only $90 a tonne, they suddenly become $180 a tonne (which is 9 cents a pound!). In fact, they are known to be as much as or more than double what they were in the previous fall. Typically beginning in March the scrap metal prices start to rise too. So, at the Buker home, you know spring is in the air when, as soon as piles of scrap metal start appearing under the disappearing snow banks, the truck gets loaded.
One of the several ways that Free Stuff 4 Daily Needs is financed is through the collection and selling of scrap metal. Spring Clean Up And Scrap Metal Fund Raising
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