Tales from the Scales: ScrapWare Blog
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Eight Critical Factors to Assess When Purchasing the Right Recycling Software
Just like shredders, balers and container trucks, software is an investment that can help a scrap metal recycling business increase its efficiency and profitability. Unlike heavy equipment, however, recycling software’s intangible nature makes it more challenging for...
Driverless Trucks Slowly Rolling into Reality
Speculation abounds about when we might experience self-driving cars, as tech startups tout this new technology to revolutionize transportation. A different transportation revolution, however, might overtake self-driving cars, and that would be self-driving...
Recycling Advances Needed to Keep Electric Vehicles on the Road
Recycling traditional combustion engine cars today is an environmental and economic success story. After an old car lands at a scrap yard, as much as 95 percent of it is destined to be reused after it is recycled. This recycling process has evolved to be...
Ten Tips to Prepare your Hardware for Severe Weather
The threat severe weather poses for computer hardware lingers throughout the summer. According to the 2021 Farmers’ Almanac extended forecast, this summer was expected to be stormy, with a greater than average frequency of thunderstorms for a large portion of...
6 Ways Dispatch Software Can Boost Your Scrap Metal Recycling Business
Optimizing your assets is a key to unlocking profitability in business. This holds true for some scrap metal recyclers, who utilize truck fleets to obtain scrap. For recyclers an important consideration is whether rollingstock is being managed to its maximum...
Future of Electronics Recycling May be Impacted by International Agreement
The Basel Convention, an international agreement which controls transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous waste, is considering proposals which may make it more challenging for end-of-life electronics to be refurbished, reused or recycled. Effective in 1992,...
Future of Mutilated Coin Program Uncertain for Scrap Metal Recyclers
Old pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters lost between automobile seats, stuck in coin-operated washers and dryers or left in vending machines routinely make their way into the scrap stream. A popular program operated by the U.S. Mint to exchange these coins was...
Export Tax Incentive Helpful to Scrap Metal Recyclers In Uncertain Times
Tax filing day for 2020 is behind us now, but it is not too early for scrap metal recyclers to start planning for 2021 federal income taxes. Scrap metal recyclers who export may stand to benefit from an export tax incentive that is easy to set up and available...