Pound for pound, a window AC is one of the most metal-dense appliances you'll find: copper tubing, an Al/Cu radiator, and a sealed compressor. Here's what it pays — and the refrigerant law you can't skip.
A microwave is 28 lb of cheap steel wrapped around one genuinely good component: a copper-wound transformer. Here's what it pays, how to get the good part out, and the capacitor warning that isn't optional.
150 pounds of mostly steel, one copper-wound motor, and a slab of concrete that pays nothing. Here's what a washer is really worth, whole versus broken down — with a calculator for your prices.
Stainless throws off the magnet test — the good grades barely stick. Here's how to tell 304 and 316 from magnetic 400-series and from plain steel, and why the difference is worth real money.
Steel is the lowest-paying metal you'll haul and the one you'll haul most. Here's how yards grade light iron, heavy melting steel, and cast iron — and how to not give away the valuable metal hiding inside it.
The scale, the bins, the ID check, the payout — a walkthrough of exactly what happens on your first yard visit, so you show up prepared instead of intimidated.