William J Ricca Surplus Sales

Here's How to Price Scrap Metal

Learn about the steps necessary to price scrap metal properly, including tips on identification and market resources.

How to Sort Scrap Metal

Selling scrap metal can be a great way to supplement your income, or you can do it full time. Before you can sell your scrap metal to a scrap yard, you need to separate the different metals in your scrap. A scrap magnet will help you...

What can be recycled?

There's a long list of things that can be recycled and sold as scrap metal. Find out what recyclable summer items you can sell and see what we buy.

3 Things You Can Find In Your Garage For Scrap Metal

Looking to make some extra cash on your scrap metal? These 3 items may be laying around your garage that you can cash in for scrap metal cash at your yard.

How to Find Designer Brands at Thrift Stores

How to find designer dresses when shopping at thrift stores.

The Polite House: What Can I Do About My Neighbors’ Trash Cans?

If you’re tired of staring at unsightly garbage way before pickup day, it’s time to have some tough conversations

How to Sell Scrap Metal for Money

Many millions of tons of scrap is sitting unused in garages and basements, but taking that haul to the scrapyard to sell can be an intimidating process. We walk you through our own trip to sell some steel at a Detroit area scrapyard.

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Does Military Surplus Work Well for Camping?

It's becoming more and more popular to use military surplus as camping equipment. Is this just a fad, or is surplus good for camping?

How Cascadian cities can be smarter about their surplus land

What if local governments viewed surplus land not as a revenue generator but an opportunity to reduce displacement?

Surplus sugar helps whiteflies detoxify plant defenses

When attacking crucifers, the sap-sucking whitefly Bemisia tabaci can activate the chemical defenses of these plants. In a new study, an international team of researchers demonstrated that the pest is able to render a large proportion of the plant toxins harmless by binding surplus sugar to them. The whitefly thus deploys a completely new and until now undescribed detoxification mechanism to defuse the plants' defenses, which could explain the success of this major agricultural pest.

Surplus energy rides the 'gravity train'

A company in California has developed a gravity train to store and transport surplus electricity.

Do You Have Surplus? Tell Us About It.

Surplus Solutions provides a full range of services including outright purchases, auctions, brokerage, warehousing, and logistics. If you currently have any surplus equipment at your facility pleas…

When tempted to sin, follow St. Francis de Sales' advice

When we feel an overwhelming temptation to commit a particular sin, it can be difficult to resist. We may know it is bad, but our passions drive us to do it anyway. St. Francis de Sales, in his book Introduction to the Devout Life, explains what you should do when you are initially tempted. So soon Read More…

Have a Surplus of Purpose

Have you ever wondered how some people survive and thrive through adversity while others are crushed under the weight of it? Those that rise from pain with greater determination have something in common. They have a surplus of purpose. After my brother Ed died I

Bread to Toast: Fighting food waste one beer at a time

Toast Ale is a beer that’s made from surplus bread. The company was founded by environmentalist Tristram Stuart in part to help bakeries recycle bread that otherwise would have been wasted. It brings together food producers who are committed to prioritizing sustainable means of production, and is helping raise public awareness about wasted food.

Why Asset Condition Management [ACM]?

Focus on Asset Condition Management to maximize value from assets in alignment to organizational objectives.