Week of:
| Item / category | Destination (S / D / SC / DU) | Weight (lbs) | Fee paid $ | Income collected $ | Listed same day? |
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Destinations: S sell (solid wood furniture, working appliances, tools, exercise equipment, patio sets, mid-century anything; photograph before it touches the trailer, list the same day, price to move in a week; unsold in two weeks moves on) · D donate (clean working items; Habitat ReStore takes building materials; donated items never cross the scale) · SC scrap (steel ~$120-230/ton by grade and yard; a ~200-lb washer is roughly $12-18; non-ferrous worth several times steel by weight; keep a scrap bin for cords, radiators, copper pipe) · DU dump (what remains, at your glovebox rates). Refuse trash with ambition: water-damaged particleboard, mattresses, tube TVs, and 1990s entertainment centers do not sell.
| Line | This week |
|---|---|
| Dump fees paid (destination four) | $ |
| Scrap income collected (destination three) | $ |
| Resale income collected (destination one) | $ |
| Fees avoided via donation (destination two, estimated at your per-ton rate) | $ |
| Back-end offset | $ |
A $75 dresser pulled from a job you were already paid to clear is pure margin with no disposal cost attached. Operators report resale and recycling offsetting a meaningful share of disposal costs when sorting is consistent.
| ☐ Donation center first | ☐ Scrapyard second | ☐ Landfill last, trailer as light as the day allowed |
Two dump runs a day instead of four is an hour saved, and the hour is the margin. Refrigerant appliances: pass the surcharge through by name from your fee schedule, or make certified recovery your eventual add-on.