"nightjar .uk.com" nightjar@insert my surname here wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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Yes, we're very careful about sorting - except for ferrous metals which
at the moment aren't bringing a huge amount. Copper, brasses and lead are
valuable. We have a separate bucket for each, Spouse takes them down
every few months. The ferrous stuff goes more or less to get it out of
the way.

I've never bothered with getting money for steel scrap. By agreement, it
just goes into the scrap skip at a neighbouring factory. However, there
appears to be enough money in it at the moment to make it worth while for
people to pay our industrial estate for every dumped car removed. A few
years ago we had to pay to have them collected.

We don't have any local factories, we wouldn't make a special journey (the
scrap yard's a mile away for goodness' sake!) but when we have enough other
stuff the ferrous stuff goes along.

We have a very good relationship with our scrap yard, we've been dealing
with them through four generations - theirs, not ours. For instance, when we
want copper sheet they often 'sell' us a hw cylinder.

Mary