Recycling Metal in Columbia SC
After a few months of collecting aluminum cans and miscellaneous metal parts I decided to cash in my collection. I knew not to expect a fortune from my goods but in my mind I was not only picking up a few bucks but saving space in our over-stuffed landfills. I had about 16 pounds of cans, a few brass fittings and copper tubing from a plumbing job and some torn up real estate signs that were not salvageable for marketing purposes. I went to a recycling center to find that my scraps were worth slightly over $20.00. Shockingly, my aluminum cans were worth only $.50/lb. and the other junk that I just happened to toss into the barrel were worth over $12.00…a...