So Just What Does Salvage America Buy?

All kinds of scrap metal. Anything made of or containing metal is potential money in your pocket.

Junk Bicycles.

Used and broken appliances. (Air conditions, freezers and refrigerators must be free of freon.)

Junk cars. (All fluids must be drained and freon removed. Gas tanks must be removed. Keep your worn out tires.)

Junk motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, go carts, etc. (Again, all fluids must be drained.)

Computer CPUs. (Central Processing Units, aka towers only as we currently cannot handle monitors, keyboards and other parts.)

Computer hard drives and old laptops.

Clean aluminum cans. (No need to wash old beer and drink cans but they must be free of food and debris.)

Clean steel cans. Rinse out those old soup cans and we'll pay you for them too. Even the lids the City wants you to throw away are recyclable.

If you're not sure about something then give us a call at 215 5228.

And remember: Everything we have is for sale-- even the boss.

Cast Iron Skillets

I love to cook in cast iron.

We have several old, rusted cast iron skillets that while looking bad can be easily cleaned-up, reseasoned and put back to use. Need a cheap cast iron skillet?

Salvage America Ebay Store

For those of you who might not live close by we have our Salvage America Ebay Store. You'll be surprised by what you find there.

Salvage America: Greensboro's Bicycle Junkyard

Beginning tomorrow morning Salvage America will be opening Greensboro, North Carolina's first bicycle junk yard.

Need parts for your bicycle? Bring tools and pull them off. No one beats our prices. Perhaps you need a good used bicycle? We save the nicest bikes just so people can get a real deal on a used bicycle.

We've even got a couple of older bikes that are considered collectors' items.

Maker Faire, A Junk Man's Dream

Sadly, no one from Salvage America was able to attend this year's Maker Faire but you can bet we would have had a blast. Oh well, maybe next year.

Probably the coolest thing about junk yards is imagining what you can make from what others throw away. For example: while out on the yard today I found everything we need to build a machine to put mulch in bags and buckets so that those of you who need less than a truck load can buy as little as you need.

Hopefully we'll have our bagging machine up and running before too long.

If you'd like to see something else I built from junk you only need click this link.

Salvage America Reduces The Cost Of Gasoline

For people living throughout most of Greensboro, Salvage America, located at 3100 Holts Chapel Road just off of East Market Street, is a shorter drive than most of the companies we compete with. And there's a whole lot less traffic. But that's not what I want to tell you about.

In today's news we learn of a way that garbage can be turned into gasoline-- more correctly, a blend called E-85 that will retail for only $2.oo per gallon. From the news:

"Rather than putting your garbage at the curb, you may soon be putting it in your gas tank.

General Motors has purchased an equity stake in Coskata Inc. of Warrenville, Ill., which has come up with a process that uses bacteria to produce E85 ethanol fuel out of garbage, scrap tires, wood chips, and even recycled foam, rubber and plastic in today's junked cars.

While E85 is currently made from food-based sources, GM says non-food-based ethanol can be produced for about $1 a gallon, or about half of what it costs using corn today — meaning E85 could be priced under $2 a gallon at the pump." Continue reading.

I've know for years that garbage could be converted to ethanol-- why has it taken so long? Oh well, no matter what the reason Salvage America plans to become a local leader in the Green Revolution.

Short On Cash?

If you need a few dollars and you've got junk laying around-- anything from old cars to any kind of scrap metal-- we can help you out.

I can't quote scrap metal prices on the blog because the current speculation driven by Chinese investors and market speculators is changing metal prices every day but we always strive to pay you the highest prices we can afford to pay.

We accept all kinds of scrap metals including but not limited to steel, cast iron, aluminum, copper, brass, and more. We also accept used auto parts, appliances (nothing still containing freon) old pots and pans and anything else made from metals including electric motors, radiators, old lawnmowers, bicycles and more.

We are recycling some plastics but you'll need to contact us first.

We believe in recycling and reusing instead of filling up landfills and with the help of the local community we can make Greensboro a better place to live.

We Wish We Could Recycle Everything

And maybe someday we will but even though we can't recycle everything we are constantly looking for ideas that might not be readily apparent to us.

Like my earlier post on tomato baskets, sometimes recycling means reusing products perhaps in ways in which the product wasn't intended to be used. Sure, a bicycle wheel can be melted down but if you can think of a better use for it we'd love to hear it. You see, melting things down is for us, a last resort that means less profit for us and doesn't do as good a job of protecting the environment. Melting plastics and metals to be made into new products-- while a much better option than tossing them in landfills-- still uses energy and creates pollution. Reusing plastics and metals uses almost no energy and has a positive effect on the environment.

Come to think of it, if you took a stack of bicycle wheels and welded, bolted or glued them together you'd have the beginning of a basket. And the plastic bags we now send to the landfill could become houses.

Got an idea? We'd love to hear it.

Are You Throwing Money In Your Greensboro Recycling Can?

You know those beverage cans you've been giving to the City of Greensboro? At Salvage America we'll pay you for clean aluminum cans. Same goes for steel cans provided you rinse them out and remove the paper.

50 HP Electric Motor

Need a 50 horse power AC electric motor? We've got one. We've also got lots of other sizes of electric motors right down to fractional horse power sizes. We've even got DC motors-- some of them still in their original packaging.