Recycle Scrap Into Cash

With America dealing with financial instability, the need to reuse and recycle has not only helped the enviornment and increase awareness in the "Go Green" campaign, but it has also fattened the wallets of thousands around the world. People visiting recycling and scrap metal operations in the past year has nearly doubled. The economy has left consumers no choice but to limit consumption and reuse. The high and ever rising energy costs brings in people alike who are looking to save every penny.



A majority of people who visit the recycling or scrap metal plants everyday are plumbers or contractors who have the extra metal scraps and pieces laying around at the end of the work day. But the truth is that it doesn't stop there. Some are scowering around the night before trash pick up in local neighborhoods and grabbong everything they can put their hands on.



Until only a few years ago, copper was selling for less than $1 a pound. Today it is going for about $3 a pound. The price jump is also in aluminum cans that were once going for about 30 cents a pound can now fetch 70 cents to 80 cents a pound. In the last seven years, steel has jumped from $40 a gross ton to more than $200 per gross ton.



For lots Americans who are avid recyclers, hundreds of dollars can be averaged from a single trip of turning your waste into cash. Numerous people said that they used the extra cash to fill up at the gas pump, because the average price of fuel although it is going down, puts a large dent into monthly expenses.



Recycling is also a part of going green and reusing our resources. This is a perfect way to kill two birds with one stone. Save our planet, but at the same time save your money. For more information on this article or to read the whole thing, please click on the link below.



Boom in Recycling