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From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@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 jra@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