----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <r...@seastrom.com>
> I found scrap pricing for "telco" (obviously the contaminant ratios > out there are different for different types of copper) at $1.20/pound, > which may or may not be current, but if you figure a single pair of > #24 is probably around 4 pounds per 1000 feet scrap weight... if an > average loop is, say, 5000 feet, you can see where there is > substantial incentive to recycle all the 600 pair that you have lying > around. That's relatively current. I recycled about 105 ft of 25pr I pulled out on a cabling job 3 or 4 months ago, and I think I got $130 for it. But remember: much to most telco trunk cable is icky-pic, and direct-burial; both of those change the effectiveness equation *markedly*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
