Business View Magazine | April 2019

124 The company accepts all ferrous materials such as commercial scrap metal, construction equipment, appliances, cable and wire, farm machinery, junk cars and trucks, structural beams, etc. Acceptable non-ferrous items in- clude aluminum cans and extrusions, brass and bronze, electric motors, heater cores and radia- tors, scrap lead, copper wire, etc. It also accepts newspapers, books & magazines, cardboard, office paper, phone books, and plastic contain- ers at no charge to the customer. With 25 trucks on the road, Ed- ward Arnold Scrap Processors’ services include: dump trailers, flatbeds, van trailers, and roll-off containers from 10 to 80 yards. A roll-off is an open top dump- ster characterized by a rectangu- lar footprint, utilizing wheels to facilitate rolling the dumpster in place. The container is designed to be transported by special roll- off trucks. Roll-offs are commonly used to contain loads of construc- tion and demolition waste. The company also provides roller bins with valves that allow customers to recover fluids that are essential to their business. Regarding those roll-offs, Arnold says that when the company first acquired them, it became a way in which to counter the nega- tive image that some held about the scrap business. “We got them all painted, and put our name and phone number on them,” he recounts. “A lot of people in the industry just EDWARD ARNOLD SCRAP PROCESSORS, INC.