Junk Appliances can be a
treasure trove of recyclable materials.
Recoverable materials
include: steel, aluminum, copper, plastics,
rubber, glass, and freon.
Lets start with your common
washer and dryer set.
The wiring contains
recyclable copper see copper
recycling
The main case is made of
steel see steel
recycling
Also they are rich in
recyclable plastics see plastic
recycling
Next lets talk about
refrigerators. There are literally millions of
junk refrigerators in this country. The
internal coils on these are rich with copper and
aluminum not to mention the steel, plastic, and
sometimes stainless steel, that make up the
shell.
The downside or sometimes
upside to recycling refrigerators is disposing of
the freon. Freon is the refrigerant gas that runs
through the coils and compressor in a
fridge.
Most municipalities require
by law that refrigerant gases be disposed of by a
licensed professional and under no circumstances
deliberately released into the air.
The upside to this is that
there is actually a market for recycled
refrigerant.
With the proper training and
equipment refrigerator recycling can prove very
profitable.
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Some poeple and municipal
dumps will actually pay you to pickup and properly
dispose of junk refrigerators and
appliances.
However this is one prospect
best left to somone with a strong back and due to
biological debree that may be present (the science
experiment in the fridge) it's not for the
squemish.
