SCRAP PRICES

[ROSSGR]

Does anyone know what the going rate at the moment for opper/Aluminium??

I have got 100kg of used copper and 10kg of aluminium cans to be exchanged.

Cheers

 

[Bahco]

Read here

100 kg of copper!

 

[ROSSGR]

Cheers....thought I would have got a bit more for the Aluminium but it free money so to speak.

 

[Fluffster]

What is the best way to sort scrap metal?

I generally bung all my copper pipe with brass fixings attached in as one.

Should I be seperating this into pure copper and brass piles?

Thanks
Pete

 

[gregers]

yes your get more dosh,the amount of pik,,, running round my town at the mo,with transits asking for any scrap is amazing,theres a skip outside at the back of me of my house at the moment and they were ferreting around in it the other evening,even dirty metal is worth a few bob now.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Mixed metal will fetch a lower price as someone has to clean it up. My former employers had a guy cleaning scrap as it proved financially beneficial to them to pay him to do that as opposed to weighing in large quantities of mixed metal.

Cars, white goods etc are easier to process as once fragmentised, magnets remove the ferrous, leaving non ferrous residue, but even then some degree of manual sorting takes place to retrieve non ferrous metal before the residual is landfilled.