Ames scrap follows the rental calendar and the campus

Ames turns over apartments every May and August. The metal is predictable: appliances with the cords cut, bed frames, and the occasional copper theft-recovery that a landlord should not touch without the police report. Legitimate landlord loads are fine. Anything described as “found wire” with no address is not.

The research and office side of Iowa State’s orbit produces surplus shelving, old lab benches, and cable when a room is decommissioned. Those need authorization from the building, not a midnight pickup. Households in the rest of Story County add farm-edge steel and ordinary remodel copper. Put the city in the form so a partner is not sent to the wrong Ames.