What to do with trash?

[nontypical]

I just started MDing about 2 weeks ago so i thought I'd ask this. First, do you always keep the trash you dig up or do you leave it? Second, other than the obvious of throwing it away later, what else do some of you do with trash?

[steve in so az]

Non - I have been detecting 28 years now and if I were just starting and know what I know now I would A. keep a barrel at home for copper, brass, etc. as prices are now high. B. I would dig most signals. I do that now and sure do dig a lot of goods - plus the trash of course. C. I always dump the trash but anything that just might be a goodie but not sure of,then take it home and check then toss if if so.

Good luck, Low & slow, Steve in so az

[Mister7]

I always take "pack out" any trash that I might dig up (I also go as far as picking up any trash within reason while at the site). I have a utility belt with several different compartments and one of those compartments is just for the pop-tops,pull rings and all those funky little pieces of metal that we all dig up. At the end of my dig I just empty the trash compartment back home...If we take the junk with us then the next detectorist that visits the spot at a later day won't have to....Being a good steward of our environment is never a bad thing....

[z118]

I always take the trash I dig with me. I wear cargo pants or shorts and one pocket gets all the junk. Big stuff I throw into trash cans when and where I'm hunting if available. Otherwise I empty my junk pocket into a 2 gallon bucket in the trunk of my car.

It's a good idea to pick up garbage I think because in the event someone gives you a hard time you can demonstrate to them how you are picking up the area. Not to mention it makes it easier for you to detect the next time you go to that spot.

Here's some pics!

[dan]

I wear one of those cloth nail aprons with two pockets. They used to be free at the lumberyard; now they cost a buck or so. I put my good finds in one pocket and trash in the other.

Never leave trash. If you leave it on top of the ground you're giving treasure hunters a bad reputation; if you bury it you'll just have to dig it again next time you hunt there.

[Cfmct]

Z... that's some serious trash you got there When we hunt a new beach that we know is infested with chunks of iron we bring a white bucket and clean it out so we can hear the whispers of the good stuff another time

[Lowjiber]

I always pack mine out to the nearest trashcan.

[sectshun8]

Originally Posted by dan

I wear one of those cloth nail aprons with two pockets. They used to be free at the lumberyard; now they cost a buck or so. I put my good finds in one pocket and trash in the other.

Never leave trash. If you leave it on top of the ground you're giving treasure hunters a bad reputation; if you bury it you'll just have to dig it again next time you hunt there.

Exactly what I do...

I make sure to include it all my pics, but my trash ends up, well... in the trash where it belongs!

[cammobunker]

Trash gets pitched into the trash can.
I'm starting to think that I need to save the pull tabs and copper/brass though. You could seriously make some money digging just copper wire and aluminum cans. I'm toying with the idea of digging and screening the local shooting range to salvage the lead, since it's like $1/pound now.

Besides, it's good to get all the lead out of the environment, you know?

[Rivermarine1]

Be careful what you call trash. A while back a guy almost threw away a Spanish coin he thought was trash. After he cleaned a little was when he realized he had something. I try to recycle what I pick up. Copper, aluminum, lead.

[U.P. Northwoods]

To the scrap yard it goes. I seperate it all.

[mlitty]

I've been tossing it, but I've found two sites that seem to be rich with copper, so I've started collecting it. I've two gallon sized jugs. One for copper and one for aluminum. I'm not even sure there's a scrap yard near by, but I'll look when they're full.

I never leave trash in the ground. I try to take even the non-metal trash, glass and plastic, though I'll admit I don't pick up all of the plastic I find, I do get most of it.

[homefire]

Being Broke to the Max, I cart it all home. Brass in the bucket.

Copper in the other bucket.

Aluminum in the other bucket.

Trash in the trash.

Iron/steel? It goes in the pile. $90.00 a ton last checked ,, someday I may have enough to work with.

[~Alan~]

Our club members are supposed to take a pouch with them on club sites, to put their finds and trash in. Then it gets deposited somewhere where it won't get detected again. In the hedge or ditch at the edge of the field.

There are still some lazy b*******s who leave it by the hole, or put it back in the hole before refilling.

[fiat128]

Originally Posted by homefire

Being Broke to the Max, I cart it all home. Brass in the bucket.

Copper in the other bucket.

Aluminum in the other bucket.

Trash in the trash.

Iron/steel? It goes in the pile. $90.00 a ton last checked ,, someday I may have enough to work with.

Here's me on Monday hauling 660 lbs. of light #2 steel to the scrapyard. About half of it came from stuff I no longer wanted around the house and the other half was picked up while out looking for cans and MDing. The lame trailer was made for this from free wood and I got $40 for it, which isn't much but that will fill this little van with gas to go out MDing!

[Lt1stone]

I pack the trash out,and at home I seperate other items from the coins. Sometimes therusty dirty items turn out to be nice relics.

[nontypical]

thanks for all the input on what to do with trash.Scraping it sounds like a good idea. Definately wont leave any behind!!

[Monte]

From the start I've tried to get rid of trash, with the exception of ghost towns and such. Just way too much junk!

I'll put it in my pouch and periodically dump it. I recall the 'era' in the late '70s thru early-to-mid '80s, about 5-8 years, when there was a dramatic surge of interest in the hobby and I would watch people detecting a park or other site pocket/pouch the coins, but 'junk' was tossed up near the base of the closest tree to get it out of the way.

Often, you could get a paper lunch sack full of pull tabs, bottle caps and other litter just but gathering what was around one, two, or maybe three trees.

If I am hunting a large site, or spending a long day at a site with friends, I try to take along a 5 gal. bucket or two and place them about the site. We put all junk in the buckets for removal so we don't have sagging pouches.

Monte