Scrap Metal Recycling Around the World
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6 ай бұрынScrap metal recycling is certainly a global industry, and sometimes I get a little nosy about how scrappers earn a living in other parts of the world! So Here is a collection of some of my favorite scrapping videos to show just how different and yet similar this job can be in different places.
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@wantacar2055 6 ай бұрын
Greetings from Kazakhstan, thank you very much friend for your help, this is cool, I'm very glad that you like my content. My name is Yuri, collecting metal is my hobby, with the help of which I passed my category B license and bought a VAZ 2109 car, it took me 2 years to do this, continue to drive the car and save for another car. And also this channel motivates me to learn English language . The project originally started from the very beginning on the channel I Want a Car. Thank you very much 👍🤝🙂🇰🇿
@Stalkpro 6 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot😊🤝👍🇰🇿
@AlexDay-wo6kw 6 ай бұрын
Keep up the hard work
@thubprint 6 ай бұрын
Congratulations! I did notice you loaded up two tvs into a car on your last scrap collecting video but I thought maybe you had borrowed it. It’s still good to have a target to work towards, maybe next goal is upgrading to a trailer? I was hoping to help in secret haha, but it’s okay! I think the first 1000 subscribers is the hardest part and I want to see you get there, many people helped me build my channel and it has made a huge difference in my life so I’d love for you to benefit as well. Keep going! You’re doing great! Nice to meet you Yuri, all the best 💚
@stickhillfarm 6 ай бұрын
got you to 731 subs. Hope you see 1k soon!
@wantacar2055 6 ай бұрын
@@thubprint I thought that someone helped, because subscriptions began to grow very quickly thanks to you, as it turned out, thank you for such support. This is my first car, I’ll drive it for now and then we’ll see, maybe I’ll find a ton of copper🤝👍🙂
@theselfproclaimedretrogame9383 6 ай бұрын
it feels good to scrap knowing you’re saving metals from ending up in landfill or in our ecosystem
@ProductionsLightMike 6 ай бұрын
I subscribed as well!😀
@Firstordertrooper 6 ай бұрын
For me I also scrap for fun and just get the good stuff like copper aluminum gold plated stuff and some chips. Awesome vid ❤
@spangdeez498 6 ай бұрын
It’s hard to scrap “junk” or “scrap” without a truck…. And I USUALLY don’t touch the scrap myself- BUT I started posting ads on Facebook- free METAL pickups and EASILY made $100/day- I was legit about to start a business - my bro in law had a dump truck for sale at the time and I could pay someone $20/hour for 2-3 hours/day … rough numbers I could have EASILY pulled in 60$/day doing NOTHING
@spangdeez498 6 ай бұрын
I was getting SO MANY messages on Facebook I couldn’t keep up with it and had to make “appointments “ if you will, to go pick it up….about 2-3 hours later, $100 …. You could start a decent business doing that - there’s UNLIMITED amounts of metal just sitting in peoples yards they’re just waiting to get rid of - PLUS all the cool extra stuff I didn’t recycle and kept - AND they’ll give you ALL the copper and aluminum they have - bc they don’t do it themselves
@benhumphregys3087 6 ай бұрын
I do this mostly but can’t turn down a nice load of iron because it’s so easy sometimes
@spangdeez498 6 ай бұрын
@@benhumphregys3087 if I can something heavy enough that’ll add up to a few dollars - I’ll take it, at .10/lb…. Like I junked an old iron weight set one time for example, was too easy NOT to take, but still just a couple three dollars if that
@carlgodfrey2974 6 ай бұрын
Great video. I gave that a kid a follow. Let's see what happens with that.
@Ant4fatony 6 ай бұрын
Thub, thanks for answering my email request for Looking For Treasure. Well done.
@John-jl3ky 6 ай бұрын
I subscribed, a hard-working scrapper
@mollynakamori 6 ай бұрын
That really was fun and interesting. I learned a lot I didn't know I wanted to know. Thanks, Thub. You are such a lovely spirit.
@nightscrapperuk13 5 ай бұрын
There is some very interesting European scrapping channels out there for sure ,alot of them use there feet to cut open electric moters and all other scrap realated stuff,i like watching people who have basically nothing as in a workshop or workbench and present themselves better than the scrappers we are ,great video and am glad you have shown this not just to me to everyone on KZfaq
@jeffswartek7356 16 күн бұрын
Great idea for a series
@MadelineRose-ep7fj 6 ай бұрын
I have been one of the man's subscribers. Have also see the Indonesian coverage of widowed women who work in shipyards among poisonous chemicals for peanuts. Another one to watch is about CocoCola switching to plastic bottles leaving countries to figure out what to do with waste products. 😊
@henriknielsen820 6 ай бұрын
Eazy 🎉 I really love your content, Even stuff like this❤ Keep it rolling, much love from Denmark
@unchained20000000 6 ай бұрын
LOL, I love doing this for channels. The Lord blesses those who bless others!
@schrauberfreunde7519 6 ай бұрын
I am like the last guy just taking everything i can 😊
@maxsaslt 6 ай бұрын
12:30 I never watched this channel, but it looks to me like they are digging somewhere in Siberia, where used to be Gulags and those places were insanely littered with steel from tractors, furnaces and other machinery, used to exploit nature from resources. I know some people in Eastern Europe metal detect for steel the collective farms, because those places were full of scrap steel from tractors.
@empirefinds 6 ай бұрын
Subbed as a favour to you it's actually quite amusing. Yes the process of Inquarting gold lead is very bad for you no masks they will be dead in no time at all. Better off using silver then 75 percent hcl 25 percent nitric acid. Boil a drop of sulphuric acid to drop the lead out then filter drop some sodium metabisulfite to drop the gold out. Then pour the rest of the liquid on to tin to drop the copper. It's took me a while but getting there awesome episode brother see you on the flipside
@ou7erspace 6 ай бұрын
Let's just boost this guy!!
@danmassie1942 6 ай бұрын
Cool video I like the idea you used!
@lenzgodeep5053 6 ай бұрын
I remember when the channel had 15K subs! Wow Awesome man! so glad to see you are keeping it going!
@fishtank5313 6 ай бұрын
he is over one thousand now....let make it...over eight thousand now.
@artt8381 6 ай бұрын
I did as instructed and subbed to our kazakh comrade.
@brownseed777 6 ай бұрын
Thub you are just awesome never forget!!
@BushDogScrapper 6 ай бұрын
Cool video I like the idea you used! Hope you have a wonderful weekend Thub! CheeRs Brother
@matthewelliott2213 6 ай бұрын
Lol...I was sub 579 at wantacar.... Seems like a stand up guy.
@robwaterfiled6168 6 ай бұрын
interesting reality check on how so many try to survive in this world, Subed the dude. great act of kindness on your behalf to boost the dudes channel. cheers from australia
@jmonsted 6 ай бұрын
So many people didn't understand the "don't say thubprint sent you" part :)
@thubprint 6 ай бұрын
I know! 😆 I specifically asked not to credit me in any way!
@dr.a006 6 ай бұрын
@@thubprintsometimes it costs us little to no effort to help others. Glad you did that. We should all help each other out, smile more, compliment others, thank others, and be nice without expecting anything in return. 👍 Keep it up Thub. You are genuine.
@Bcc0402 6 ай бұрын
Please do more dumpster diving/scrap hunting
@johngastineau653 6 ай бұрын
The main thing to think about is the revenue compared to the cost of living.
@user-yh5gc6im1b 6 ай бұрын
Very interesting V-LOG. Thankyou
@E-hab 6 ай бұрын
Dude this is not camera tech channel 😂
@benhumphregys3087 6 ай бұрын
Wow amazing 😮
@mollynakamori 6 ай бұрын
I'm sub #681 for your fella!
@katherineshief3081 6 ай бұрын
Another good video
@RedWalker98 5 ай бұрын
OMG I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! And your face! You’re great 👍
@thubprint 5 ай бұрын
I love YOUR face! ☺️
@larrybuckles5180 6 ай бұрын
will do.
@maritimescrapper 6 ай бұрын
I would subscribe to him, but I already did a couple of weeks ago. There are some amazing chanels out there!! Finding them is almost as much fun as scrapping itself!! Awesome video my friend!!!
@petermarsh7172 6 ай бұрын
I think that many people around the world make a subsistence living off anything that the can and even a small amount of money a day will feed people. We are so lucky in the west to have the living standards that we do. Many many people think that they have it hard but in reality when you watch many of these clips you see what having it hard really is.
@rixismetals 5 ай бұрын
Great idea for a video , checking out other scrappers
@twistthrottleatv3504 6 ай бұрын
one of your videos randomly popped up on my channel little over a month ago. I have never scrapped anything or really considered doing it but with my new position as a Maint tech I am dealing with a lot of bad industrial E-motors and various aluminum and SS scraps... ive done 2 runs in my lil dakota and made a little over $200 usd for about 2 hours of work. Im hooked lol I currently have 10 2-3HP motors a 7HP and a massive 10HP =)$$$$(= so anyways I just wanted to say thanks!
@thubprint 6 ай бұрын
That’s how it’ll getcha, hahaha! The trick now is not letting it take over your yard 😉 Glad you found me, and thanks for watching!
@dr.a006 6 ай бұрын
Nice little side hustle! 👍 Keep it up
@RealTC16 6 ай бұрын
Greetings follow Canadian they are probably happy to make just what they have not much to us but a lot to them.. gotta love that we live in Canada though brother! Be safe out there man! Cheers! 🙏🇨🇦☝🏻
@Roberto-yu4nt 6 ай бұрын
Very nice video!
@dietarychef2212 5 ай бұрын
I love scrapping and melting and stacking because of money and security. I know that no matter what happens i alway have something to fall back on for cash flow. I have learned where all the honey holes are and as long as i can come up with $100 to $200 a day i will never have anything to worry about. Also unlike a lot of Americans i have zero debt. Both cars paid off, no credit cards and buy everything with Cash. This is something all need to consider when being in support of a cashless society. There will also be zero privacy with spending and buying. People please pass this info around it would be very detrimental to people who buy, sell, trade. Have a beautiful day.
@PJ-kj4ms 6 ай бұрын
he's up to 607 subs now ! yeah!
@unchained20000000 6 ай бұрын
I subbed to him, I told him you sent me!
@steelisreal4313 6 ай бұрын
Vandal vlogs is a kewl dude...as in he don't muck around w/plug ends haha😂 shred 'em and move on!
@Kenthis15 6 ай бұрын
That first one was… interesting. And a great reminder to wear a respirator
@williamralph8613 6 ай бұрын
Love to watch @vandal vlogs ,great guy ❤
@stingermagnetadventures994 6 ай бұрын
It's cool to see how scrapers around the world pick the hauls
@mickeypotts8531 6 ай бұрын
Ok subscribed read his description first. I think he's doing something noble for his self as well as his area .... As well as you trying to help him.... Personally I don't see anything wrong with helping someone that's trying to help themselves.... Have a story its gonna be short... Im 50 when i was 8 9 years lived in apt lots of drinking. Guy rides bicycle everyday getting cans for a long time seamed like then he didnt show up for couple days but when he did show back up he was driving a car. I always assumed he got it from the drunks in the building but anyway
@MyNameIsORyan 3 ай бұрын
Like the content!
@wolley2012 6 ай бұрын
Collecting flakes of rust is some next level stuff. 😮
@E-hab 6 ай бұрын
It's like mining ⛏️😆
@ransom2405 6 ай бұрын
Subbed to the car guy for ya,.
@taftancastingchannel 6 ай бұрын
بسیار عالی 👍
@sandymcgill1910 6 ай бұрын
great video
@drmodestoesq 6 ай бұрын
You could take that undersea cable....chop it up into 3 foot lengths with a chopsaw. A carbide blade would go through that copper without too much of a problem. Then feed it though a table saw. You might have to make a jig to keep it from rotating.
@justinbarrier3459 5 ай бұрын
3 weeks later bro and this guy is at over 1.1k subscribers! I just did. That's awesome haha
@E-hab 6 ай бұрын
16:25 I think it's a random scrap mixed with the main theme of the video about scrapping explosive scrap.
@miloudoranges2201 6 ай бұрын
❤
@harrynelson9203 5 ай бұрын
Been binge watching you for the last 2 days, i used to do scrap collecting when i was kid, made a bit of money, would love for you to watch some videos of the british scrape collection and selling, we love getting dirty for money over here 👍🏻👌🏻❤️🇬🇧💷
@thubprint 5 ай бұрын
Well I’m glad you found me, happy to make your acquaintance! I watch vandal vlogs sometimes, he has good videos of his scrap hunting and he’s in the UK
@harrynelson9203 5 ай бұрын
@@thubprint Haha ☺️👍🏻 and ohh that sounds great, i’ll check him out thanks mate 👌🏻🇬🇧
@its_marc 6 ай бұрын
He has 522 subscribers now. - links in thubs bio
@jerriewaid3997 6 ай бұрын
😂 I think I was 662nth 😊 he's going to be surprised
@antonschulte9150 6 ай бұрын
My country has some very strikt laws about recycling, so as a private individual you can't really make any money from it: - taking stuff from trash bins and containers is considered stealing goods from the waste management companies - waste has to get sorted pretty well into different categories before you can dispose it as a private person or a buisness - to be able to sell scrap to a scrap yard you need a business license - even as a approved business in most cases you need to prove the source of your scrap (sometimes even for individual pieces of scrap). This is to prove that you got it from legal sources and did not break any environmental protection or safe waste treatment laws
@E-hab 6 ай бұрын
From these I can assume you are from Europe probably 🤔
@antonschulte9150 5 ай бұрын
@@E-hab Your're right :) A friend of mine just threw away a couple hundred kilos of brass shell casings he found metal detecting because it's so hard to sell them. They need proove that there are absolutely no live bullets left wich costs more than the scrap is worth. Plus if you had a life round amongst them it might be seen as a fellony.
@emilyarchibald1900 6 ай бұрын
564 subs now ❤
@michaeldenison7339 6 ай бұрын
I saw that very video of Looking for Treasure. It was kind of fun to watch, but not really my taste. However, after that I was inundated with copycat videos that were all planted finds. Jewelry and the like. It is easy to tell when someone is genuine vs a fake. You find stuff that we all find, genuine. You find, in a freshly buried spot a coffee can full of cash and jewelry, and a brand new xbox in another spot . . . .the fakers will fake everything.
@andreabc1469 6 ай бұрын
GHS 10 is ca 1$ Canadian. The Russian digging out Stuff from WWII
@seanharvie3225 6 ай бұрын
Subscribed to wantacar2055 I enjoy what he does
@couragedoge8644 5 ай бұрын
FeO4 molecular mass is ~115 and Fe is ~55. 200 kg turns to 95. There will be dirt and sand that has attached to the clumps of rust as metal leaches out. Moisture throughout the rust. 70 kg of pure iron?
@trench124 6 ай бұрын
The bloke in Afghanistan... those looked like mortar round fins
@OriginalNethead 6 ай бұрын
I haven't seen jack for scrappers in my area. No one can make a living at it, for certain. You can't earn enough to pay basic living expenses unless you own/run a scrapyard.
@wszechmocnieuzdolniony 6 ай бұрын
Witam i pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱👍👍👍
@Jedi_Scowen 6 ай бұрын
Done
@jjchouinard2327 6 ай бұрын
I'm in, I'll subscribe.
@jjchouinard2327 6 ай бұрын
Good job trash pandas, he's at 554 subs now
@ABrokenSociety 12 күн бұрын
The numbers are in USD since most watchers are American/use USD standard.
@sleepybadtzmaru 6 ай бұрын
They documentary type express it as $6.00 USD a day for Western/Americans to understand. Current exchange is $1 usd equals $83.12 rupees or $498.73 rupees per day. $250 rupees is a really big meal in a nice restaurant. Makes it sound like they're slaving away for what we drop on a cup of coffee, but it's actually ok money in a third world country. It's enough that there's thousands of people doing it everyday and getting by. Perspective and personal quality of life. There's people in you own community that would look down on us scrappers. "$320 for turning in 100 lbs of scrap copper? I could never do that! $0.06 for a pound of steel/tin shred?!? That's insane (steel shred being incredibly common and easy to find 100lbs is $6.00)!" cool, you don't have to, we will. I'll drive around for 2 hours at a time and find enough to fill my suv.
@user-fq3jw6dj5c Ай бұрын
I think $6 dollars a day is not bad. The cost to living there is about $50 dollars amount.
@E-hab 6 ай бұрын
7:31 Yes, a lot of people in third world countries do sell broken\old-not-useful-anymore things to a buyers who surfce the neighborhoods almost every day for a few "bucks" instead of throwing it on the curb and some people do throw them but very few do that in middle calss or rich neighborhoods.
@jamesshelton1124 5 ай бұрын
When you cut the fingers and pins off boards and don’t use the rest of the board, you’re leaving 80% of your gold on the board then on top of that most scrap yards will not buy a board with the fingers or pins cut off of them so now you have 80% of your precious materials going to the landfill Because nobody will touch them
@thubprint 5 ай бұрын
This is why I haven’t ventured into precious metal recovery yet! It’s so wasteful if not done by someone who knows what they’re doing
@usmanmalic 6 ай бұрын
I really appreciate your informative videos - thank you! I'm keen to start scrap trading business. Could you please offer some guidance on finding reliable suppliers and especially on how to secure favorable deals? Additionally, do you have any suggestions for conducting independent inspections prior to making purchases?
@johnb9825 4 ай бұрын
Those aluminum fin things belong to mortar shells.
@nelsin1925 5 ай бұрын
This was an interesting view. I liked seeing you go through other peoples scrapping sites, as yours is the only one I want to subscibe to. Poverty porn is a thing. Much like animal rescue channels. Unfortunatly many of them are kinda evil. So yeah Thub, do several of these a year so I don't have to. TY. p.s. I subbed wantcar.
@andreabc1469 6 ай бұрын
no Gloves, no Mask and FipFlops
@mrdando 6 ай бұрын
It’s at 609 know come on guys and girls sub
@richavic4520 6 ай бұрын
I subbed to the kid.
@scotthoward4836 6 ай бұрын
The sad thing is some poor guy is stuck at the grocery store because his car is missing the trans. Maybe he couldn't find a catalytic converter😂
@user-xr2pm3bp4q 3 ай бұрын
Well gl
@NigelBird-ve9ko 6 ай бұрын
HEY you going back tree planting or you doing good where you at?
@tomokovlog8567 6 ай бұрын
Definitely don't want to breath that stuff
@TheSc8rpion 5 ай бұрын
Done😊
@donnajohnson2604 5 ай бұрын
I don't see a link anywhere for Looking for Treasure.
@thubprint 5 ай бұрын
In the video description, first link when you expand it
@getupyoudosser 5 ай бұрын
Video idea!!! See how much you could make from a days magnet fishing! # cleaningriversandcanals
@fartsackjack7081 6 ай бұрын
go watch some videos about the ppl living in the garbage dump man ....its how they feed their familys ...they have lil shantys set up for stores bars crazy
@jamespatterson8512 6 ай бұрын
Scrap brokers selling to each other. 😂😂😂
@ihorkhrchvnkv33 6 ай бұрын
Metal in Russia - 24 rubles for 1 kg. It's 25 cents USA
@richavic4520 6 ай бұрын
I think they made 10 GHS on the batteries
@andrewcannon587 6 ай бұрын
6 USD/day is pretty good salary in india, indonesia and even china. Those indonesia women scrapping rust is paid too low for the rust, calculated to be 6.8 cents per 10 lbs rust and cleaning up shipyard shore
@warrenthunell2557 6 ай бұрын
They must pay close to nothing for acid to make this profitable?
@drowningpooralice5505 5 ай бұрын
If you think Indian scrap metal is nerve wracking, check out the street food videos, they'll crush your soul and make you sing OH 🇨🇦 Canada and thank God for the King of Donair.
@thubprint 5 ай бұрын
Those videos always make me hungry 😅 I’m a big fan of battered fish served in newspaper, or sweets rolled together by hand
@user-xr2pm3bp4q 3 ай бұрын
I faired it. Gosh
@andrewcannon587 6 ай бұрын
3 USD for 15 lbs plastic is pretty good
@tommymadden9746 6 ай бұрын
This was interesting. It looks like scraping in these other countries could be a dangerous situation. Someone would cut you up over a microwave
@thatcanada 6 ай бұрын
Afghanistan - will buy your old rubber and plastic. Canada - throw it away, nobody wants it.
@angiemoses130 6 ай бұрын
How is Ya son