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With low grade and mid grade boards, the primary considerations at volume and weight. Shipping is not a viable option for most ordinary recyclers, as the Fedex, Ups, USPS rates are too expensive to ship 50 cent per pound boards. I personally save my low/mid and self deliver them to Boardsort, from 600 miles away, when I have a few hundred pounds of higher priced boards. These, along with power supplies, and other low dollar value items generally pay my fuel costs. (This was when Mid and Low were in the 15-20 cent range.)
But this practice also presents its own dilemma: one must have a free or extremely low cost storage area to amass sufficient quantities. 20 years ago, I would strip the aluminum, the copper coils with ferrite, and the big black boxy thing (a transformer coil, has a bit of copper on a ferrite coil) and throw the rest in shred, as I knew of no buyer, and good boards were only about 30 cents a pound, given that gold was approaching $300 an ounce. Now, it doesn't make any sense to throw a board worth 50 cents per pound in with shred at 3 or 5 or 6 cents per pound, even after stripping off the bit of aluminum and copper; likewise, I'm not sure it is profitable to strip anything off the boards if you are able to sell them at the current price, which is about the same as aluminum, without doing any work.
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