Covering Greensboro In Mulch

Need clean wood mulch for your yard or garden? Bring your pick-up truck and/or trailer and we’ll load it for you. This is clean, natural mulch with no dyes and no nasty chemicals at the best price in all of Greensboro.

We Recycle All Types Of Batteries

Here at Salvage America in Greensboro, North Carolina we gladly accept all types of batteries for recycling. And if your batteries happen to be lead acid batteries we will gladly pay you the highest prices in town. Lead acid batteries are found in cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, electric kiddy cars, motorized bicycles, electric scooters, fork lifts, tractors, lawnmowers, airplanes, construction equipment, back-up computer power supplies, emergency electric generators and more.

So bring us your batteries. We’ll pay you for the lead acid types, resell them to new battery manufacturers and make sure the others get recycled in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.

New North Carolina Scrap Metal Laws

We’re reading through the newly enacted North Carolina laws concerning the buying and selling of scrap metals so we thought we’d pass along some of the changes.

NC State Law Requires:

Payment by check for any purchase of $100.oo or more.

Fingerprints when buying catalytic converters and/or air conditioning evaporators and condensers.

NC State Law Forbids The Buying Of:

a. Any regulated metal marked with the initials or other identification of a telephone, cable, electric, water, or other public utility, or any brewer.
b. Any utility access cover.
c. Any street light pole or fixture.
d. Any road or bridge guard rail.
e. Any highway or street sign.
f. Any water meter cover.
g. Any metal beer keg, including any made of stainless steel that is clearly marked as being property of the beer manufacturer.
h. Any traffic directional or control sign.
i. Any traffic light signal.
j. Any regulated metal marked with the name of a government entity.
k. Any property owned by a railroad and marked and otherwise identified as such.
l. Any historical marker or any grave marker or burial vase.

Click here to download a .PDF File containing all the new rules as set forth by the State of NC.

At Salvage America we work very hard to make sure we follow the law and work closely with local police departments and will continue doing so in the future.

Recycling Compressed Gas Cylinders

Got old propane, oxygen, acetylene, butane, helium or other used compressed gas cylinders lying around? Need to dispose of them? It’s illegal to throw them into the trash and dangerous to keep them lying around. Here’s what you must do before we can accept your used compressed gas cylinders:

For starters, all the gas must be evacuated from the cylinders and the valves removed or a visible hole drilled, bored or otherwise cut so that we can see that your cylinder is in-fact empty. This is true for every kind of compressed gas cylinder no matter what it is made of or what it may or may not contain. The only current exception to this rule is Coleman Green Key Tool equipped cylinders.

It also makes no difference as to what your compressed gas cylinder once held as even non flammable gas cylinders can explode when cut, cracked, crushed or broken. All cylinders are considered loaded unless we can clearly see inside of them— no exceptions as we prefer not blowing ourselves up.

We can buy your properly evacuated compressed gas cylinders but if you are unable to safely evacuate your cylinders—and most people can’t do the job safely—then we recommend you transport them to the City of Greensboro’s Hazardous Waste Collection site.

And please be very careful.

Copper Prices Plunge… Again

Up, down, up down, where she’s going to stop, nobody knows. Copper prices fell over the weekend amid news that unemployment is up in the US and Europe and the strengthening of the American Dollar. From Copper Investing News:

”U.S. copper futures ended lower on Thursday, as a stronger dollar and concerns about economic recovery weighed on values. Higher than expected unemployment figures, coupled with weak housing figures triggered fears that an economic recovery is still far off. A rising greenback further cooled the copper market…”

Open Saturdays, Closed July 4th

It might be that we’re slow to answer the telephone on Saturday mornings but that don’t mean we’re not open for business. You see, Saturday mornings are usually slow so we go outside and work on the things we were unable to get done during the week.

Our regular business hours are 7:30 until 4:00 Monday through Friday and 7:30 until Noon on Saturdays.

We will be closed on Saturday, July 4th in calibration of Independence Day.

Our Books Are Open

A Plymouth County, Iowa Sheriff's deputy caught a thief stealing copper from a Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) site south of Hinton on Highway 75. It's a story that could have happened anywhere in America.

Of note is a comment by a reader identified as Don Roberts: "Not just a North West Iowa problem, a world wide problem!!! I had friends in New Zealand watch what they thought were Power Board workmen strip power-lines from their street on a Saturday afternoon only to find out, too late it was clever thieves. friends in South Africa who have given up on land lines for phones as the network is always down due to wire thefts and here in Perth, Western Australia, the railways lost most of their communication system when around 500 miles of copper wire was stolen over a holiday weekend.

So who buys it? Scrap Metal Merchants. Time for them to open their books and show the authorities who they are buying from. That should cancel the demand!! Or is that too much Big Brother power??"

Here at Salvage America we are proud of the fact that we have been reporting our buys for as long as we have been buying scrap metal. All sellers of scrap metal must provide a state or Federal issued picture ID which we then scan into our computers and pass along to area police departments along with details from each tranaction.

Yes, it's the law but at Salvage America we are happy to do it. We work with local police in any way we can and encourage everyone to report all crimes to your local police.

The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret

This recent release by the Container Recycling Institute is very troubling. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you bring your aluminum cans and other metal recyclables to Salvage America in Greensboro. We’ll even pay you for your aluminum cans and other scrap metals including the electric motors, wire and other metal parts from that old fan or air conditioner you just tossed out.

Of note: We are not against bottle bills and other recycling bills designed to increase recycling-- we just want to be included in the profits and don't wish to compete against governments.

We Buy Used And Broken Cell Phones

Some of the local cell phone stores will buy your used cell phones and we recommend you go there first as they can pay more than we are able to pay. Problem is: the local cell phone companies will only buy working phones that power up when you turn them on. So after you try the local cell phone company bring the phones they reject to Salvage America in Greensboro and we’ll buy them regardless of condition.

Selling Scrap Metals? Be Glad You Don’t Live In Oregon

Here at Salvage America in Greensboro, NC., we still pay cash for most sales of scrap metals but if other states follow Oregon’s lead that could change. Yesterday the Oregon State Legislature passed a law that requires that buyers of scrap metals mail checks to all sellers of scrap metals.

The Oregon Legislature’s efforts will make a dent in scrap metal thefts but it won’t come without pain to Oregon’s working poor who depend on scrap metal sales as a means to supplement their incomes. If you know of scrap metal thefts where you live we recommend you inform your local police department so that harsher laws won’t be needed in your community.