Robert Sneddon wrote:
> In message <watAj.19736$XI.4937@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jette
> <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>
>> I used to work in a scrapyard. Been a long time since scrapyards paid
>> for scrap metal such as copper or iron - it's just not worth it. In
>> fact, now scrapyards have a great new way to make money - they _charge_
>> people for recycling their waste metal.
>
> No, scrapyards will take even small amounts of metal, as long as it's
> the right metal. Scrap copper prices have boomed over the last few
> years, to about three thousand quid a tonne when I last looked. We sold
> an old stainless steel sink to the local scrapyard (Daltons down in
> Salamander St.) for two quid a while back -- we were on our way to dump
> it at Seafields along with other stuff and stopped in and asked on the
> off-chance. Even that old traditional church-roof standby, lead is worth
> about a quid a kilo, and easy-to-recycle aluminium cans are worth about
> 70p per kilo.
>
Daltons in Salamander Street is who I worked for. Trust me, they
didn't pay for scrap metal in anything but _serious_ quantities.
Their demolition work was the mainstay of the firm.
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Jette Goldie
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