If no government agency wants the property, the military might try to sell non-weapons systems as is on the open market. Some bases have tried setting up stores to sell used items such as camouflage clothing and typewriters. If nobody wants to purchase a larger item such as an old truck, the local DRMS office then might retain spare parts and attempt to sell the rest of the vehicle. But the military sells vehicles and other types of non-weaponry machinery as scrap as a last resort because it earns less money than by other methods of disposal. The Canadian military's Directorate of Disposal, Sales, Artifacts, and Loans administers the program.
People pay more attention than ever before to what they're discarding.
They realize it can be converted to cold, hard cash. Mich. The DRMS accepts sealed bids on the merchandise. Then, according to specifications spelled out in the catalog, the winning bidder must pick up and pay for the scrap on a strict timeline. The material included containers, rims, pipes, grids, shavings, frames, stands, lids, springs, rods, gears, and motors, along with some unseparated nonferrous metals. A few pages later, the on-line catalog spelled out the bidding procedure, removal conditions, and loading information.