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Metal

Confirmed

The moneymaker. 206 tons of scrap sold in 2023 for $28,742, more than every other commodity combined.

Where it goes

Drop-off
Scrap metal, plus aluminum and steel cans.
Town data
Recycling center
Piled and loaded out.
Town data
Scrap buyer
Not named on the town sheet.
Town data
Remelted
Steel and aluminum remelt without losing quality, so there's always a buyer.
Background

Solid border: confirmed. Dashed: likely. Dotted: open.

The numbers

Scrap metal, 2023
206 tons, $28,742.00, about $140 per ton Town data
Aluminum cans, 2023
0 tons shipped Town data
Steel cans, 2023
0 tons shipped Town data
Share of commodity revenue
About 65% of everything the town earned selling materials Inference

What the records show

Scrap metal is the one line on the town sheet that would make a business owner smile: 206 tons in 2023 for $28,742, about $140 a ton, and more than every other commodity combined. Metal recycling is fully real. Steel and aluminum remelt without losing quality, and there is always a buyer.

The odd part is cans. The center collects aluminum and steel cans, and the sheet shows zero tons of either shipped in 2023. The likely answer is stockpiling until there's a full load, but it's a question, not a finding.

Still open

Tracked on the open questions page.

Sources

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