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Originally Posted by savas
I'm always amazing at what people will come and take if it's free. I tore down my almost 30 year old cedar fence where the bottom quarter of every board had rotted. I thought I was going to have to get a truck and take it all to the dump. I put it on craigslist for free and it was gone in a few hours without any work by me.
My nearby transfer station has a very strict dumping only, no picking policy.
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I took a bunch of old redwood fencing off of a friend’s hands once, not in great shape, but not as rotten as you describe. Cedar and redwood can be useful, came in handy many times.
Same thing at my transfer station. I’ve been able to toss a few things in the truck now and then. One time there was a large, large bundle of wire of different types. I looked it over, there was no co-ax, which nobody wants, I was about to take a load of scrap copper and brass to the buyer anyway. On the receipt they give you a breakdown for how much each category was worth. The wire was about 25 bucks, it was the only wire I took in. I hate to throw away metal. Stuff has been pre-mined and pre-smelted. Steel is worth next to nothing, can be hard to give it away, some of the recycle yards have a bin for it fortunately. Unless I have a bundle I often put aluminum in the same bin.
I read once that we throw away enough aluminum each year to rebuild the entire US air fleet four times over. Sort of freaky to think about, I gather it takes a lot of electricity to smelt the stuff.