I recently found a paper by the California EPA that goes over the carbon emission reductions for aluminum, steel, and other recyclables. After going through some of the weights from my recent scrapyard runs, the numbers are kind of astonishing. Every unit of pure aluminum reduces 12.9 times its weight in CO2, steel is at 1.5 times. It didn't mention cans, but the standard 70% recovery can just be applied to the 12.9 to reach a rough number. My recent scrapyard run was 200 lbs of steel, which reduces 300 lbs of CO2. The average car puts out about 10k lbs of CO2, but if you combine all of my recent scrapyard runs it comes out to about 3-4k. Is it a huge huge amount? No, but it's in the same ballpark, making it well worth doing, and I'm sure someone who's done it longer could do better than I, especially with bigger loads. Pretty cool stuff.

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the info! I would really be curious as to how much material I have brought into the scrapyard over the years of scrapping. Glad I am doing my part and also making a little bit of money as well on the side.

Note prices have changed since I recorded: #2 copper $5.25lb, extrusion: $1.29lb and clean aluminum $0.75lb

@TinManScrapper

2 ай бұрын

Final weight: #2 copper 1.12lbs. wire and 13oz mosfits also #2 copper, tin 2.2lbs, extrusion 1.6lbs, and clean aluminum 2.9lbs

@TinManScrapper

2 ай бұрын

$17.15 compared to $2.82. left as ewaste!

@WilhelmFreidrich

Ай бұрын

👍How long did it take you to mircroscrap all that?

@redrum2612

Ай бұрын

​@@TinManScrapperThat's awesome!!

@jasonvilim3333

Ай бұрын

Thats really good prices may13 here in Saskatchewan I just got 50 cents for clean aluminum and only get 3.70 for number 2 copper

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Great video my friend 👍.

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping!

thanks good info

Good video thanks

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

Great video mate , I love stripping boards 😍

Lov the vids

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. Glad you like them. Stay well.

amazing!

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

nice!

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

G day James My son wanted something at Kenny u pull in London, went passed AIM. Pauli the wog is from London too Boy some of those boards are really loaded Yes copper is quite the price right now Ths

I got paid $5.38 (Canadian)today for number 2 copper…. May 18 2024.. wild.

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Yeah, nice price for sure! Great time to cash in.

The copper doughnuts are called inductors.

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that.

😀

Have you tried putting your silver connectors in Nitric yet?

@TinManScrapper

8 күн бұрын

Not yet. Unfortunately it takes a lot of contacts to make enough silver Somali have been just stockpiling as of now.

@Zizarkis1

8 күн бұрын

@@TinManScrapper Right on. I figure once you get started you come up with enough copper to start cementing it out of solution. Your only expense will be your nitric which is impressive for sure. Unless of course you are able to come up with that some how at no expense as well.

@TinManScrapper

8 күн бұрын

@@Zizarkis1 Also it depends on where you live, I find it is harder to get things like nitric acid and such in Canada than the US for example…have to justify and get from a certain place, whereby you can probably pick these types of items up at a lot of stores in the states.

@Zizarkis1

7 күн бұрын

@@TinManScrapper Yeah it is fairly easy to get it here in Arkansas. I can order what I need online at the moment. I haven't gone as far as to do so yet because I don't have enough silver saved up to justify trying to recover it. If it is hard for you to get in Canada you can always make your own nitric acid from nitric containing fertilizer.

@TinManScrapper

7 күн бұрын

@@Zizarkis1 Make sure as well you have well ventilated area when doing it. Stay well and HAPPY 4th JULY to you!

Yes I definitely take everything I can off those green boards.i make way more money that way

@user-cy8vn9yp8g

Ай бұрын

I definitely take all I can off my boards....I went from 8 bins to 3

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Nice. Yeah, there are a lot of goodies on circuit boards for sure.

Do you subscribe to any trusted groups that buy and sell circuit board pieces? Eg. Ceramic coated silver. Thank you. Your guidance has been appreciated.

@TinManScrapper

Ай бұрын

Boardsort.com in US is a place to use, but since ai live in Canada shipping price has to be worth it. I get a good price for circuit boards in London On at Zubicks Scrap Metal