Used/Scrapped Composite Panels

[Bradley Signs]

What do y'all do with your scrap composite panels.

The scrap yards don't want anything to do with it.

Solutions?

 

[rjssigns]

I "upcycle" them to good clients, church groups or non-profits wanting a less expensive sign. Did that recently and the client was stoked.

 

[Boudica]

+1 for upcycling

 

[Notarealsignguy]

throw them in your neighbors lawn

 

[2B]

if they are "decent", we will upcycle with the new customers' approval

Usually, they are repurposed. I just made some raised garden grow beds and used ACM as the sidewalls.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

 

[JimmyG]

ACP scrap panels work great for mosaic fence panel installation...painted or unpainted....

 

[Boudica]

When my kid was in middle school, I became aquatinted with the design teacher. His father owned a sign shop, and his mother was a teacher. He once told me that scraps are like gold to teachers. From vinyl, to substrates. Even cardboard media cores. So I always gave them scraps that were going in the garbage any way. Free resources to turn kids loose with creativity.

 

[JimmyG]

Yes indeed Boudica. . . Spread the Love. . . ~

 

[SignosaurusRex]

The up-cycling & re-purposeing uses for old composite panels are endless. A hot-glue gun and the right glue sticks can be a huge plus. The imagination is endless!
The same goes for Coro.

 

[Stacey K]

I reuse the acm if I can!!! And any other scraps. I was saving my cardboard for a guy but then he didn't show up twice so I stopped.

I was giving my scraps of vinyl and HTV to a teacher at school until I found out she was using them to make shirts and decals and selling them. Now I keep whatever fits into one rubber maid container, the rest gets tossed. I very often use my scraps of vinyl and HTV especially now with it hard to find certain vinyl colors.

 

[rjssigns]

if they are "decent", we will upcycle with the new customers' approval

Usually, they are repurposed. I just made some raised garden grow beds and used ACM as the sidewalls.

I also made table top gardens and used ACM for the sides. First two I made were from "upcycled" vinyl fence panels.

 

[signrios]

re-used them, just did 10 24x24" real estate signs, with a digital print they are just as new