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You can recycle your metal here in Wayne

By Carolyn Marnon bucks. Neidert claimed that some of
What do you do when your those scrap metal men you rely on
washer and/or dryer have run their make more recycling metal than they
final cycles and kerplunked on you? do in their monthly pension checks.
Do you drag them to the curb in the Back in the early 1950s, Nate
hopes that a metal scrapper will Weiser opened his metal recycling
come by soon and get rid of this now business in a location behind the
outdoor eyesore? Does the curb also Ford Plant. Nate Weiser also hap-
see the demise of some metal fencing pens to be the gentleman who is con-
scraps, perhaps an old vacuum or nected to the beginnings of the
just bits and pieces of junk when you dictionary program the Wayne Ro-
are cleaning out the garage? tary Club continues to this day. Nate
The scrap metal man gets excited died several years ago.
when he sees this metal at the curb. “It’s a real dirty kind of thing
It means he will soon be putting dol- when you’re digging for scrap metal,”
lars in his pockets. Did you know said Neidert. He gave away key-
that those dollars could actually go chains with magnets that detect met-
inside your pockets? als, magnetic flashlights, pens and
Jim Neidert, General Manager of first aid kits “in case you get cut
Weiser Recycling in Wayne recently scrapping.”
gave a presentation at the Wayne His- If you decide to try scrapping
torical Museum to encourage more your own metal, it’s good to know
people to recycle all of their house- that all you have to do is bring the
hold metals, including old grills, metal to Weiser Recycling (35900
rusty shelving, mismatched tools Clinton St, Wayne). The employees
and other items you don’t know what there will sort it and send it to be
to do with. While cleaning out this melted. You don’t even have to sepa-
old stuff and making space in your
home, you can also make a few Jim Neidert (right) answers questions from an attendee after the program. See RECYCLE, page 18

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