I went to a place I worked at for many years. Made microwave radios for comms. The building is closing. Everything left in the place has been written off, so it's being scrapped. There are hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of benches, equipment, storage, racking, being scrapped. Hundreds of thousands of components still in original ESD packaging. I was able to get access for an afternoon to take what I wanted, but I was like a rabbit in the headlights, so much to choose from. I would need a week. I went for the basic stuff. Metal! I got lots of aluminium, a 4m small 'I' section steel joist. Lots of U shaped steel channeling, a 1000m3/hr dust extractor. I purchased it 20 years ago, but two were delivered, so it had never been used. Also got about 20 blocks of aluminium 3"X3"x1" . I'll have nightmares about all the things being ripped out and thrown into the back of a lorry tomorrow, for scrap.
A productive day!!