Scrap meal prices

How are the scrap metal prices in your area? I have some clean aluminum. I was told around .40 cents. Aluminum wheels .50 cents. Stan

I didnt notice what aluminum or copper was going for. I just brought in some scrap it was $90 a ton unprepared. In Central Minnesota.

Neighbor told me yesterday he took a pickup load and it didnt hardly pay for his gas to get it there. Worked most the morning loading it and drove 15 miles. Didnt say what price was but said he wouldnt do it again at the price. Paris Texas

A person told me that when gas goes up, copper goes down. I don't know if that is true or not. The last stuff I took in was in buckets in the back of my Cherokee. I laughed when I saw the amount on the check. I took the stuff in to free up space in the garage. I think the prices are low now and I don't expect them to go up any time soon.

its interesting that prices of scrap are still so low. with the supply chain issues all around that scrap would be high as well.
and everyone supposedly pushing going electric you would think the copper prices would be higher.

in 2007-2008 scrap prices were crazy high and with everything else drove into recession. I've heard talks of recession and it technically is but scrap is staying low and has been low for some time.

has china built all their war equipment and don't need any more????

Couple weeks ago scrap was only $70 a ton near me. The same place usually always has a low ball price on aluminum cans anyways, but was clear down to 15 or 20 cents a lb. on those. And $2 for a car battery. $4 for a truck battery.

I didn't sell anything at those prices.

Kind of don't make sense to me either. You'd think the high rate of inflation alone, would boost those prices up like its doing to the price of everything else under the sun.

Maybe we should shrinkflate our scrap, like all the manufacturers are doing to us on thier product!!! $70 for 1400 lbs.

W Quincy Mo, $110.00 a ton for shread

I've done a bit of reading on steel-making (from scratch and recycling plants). In North America, about 70% of the steel that is produced annually comes from scrap steel recycling, the rest is made from scratch using iron ore and the other components necessary for that process. Those statistics have always amazed me. Perhaps it is different in other parts of the world? Here's some interesting facts below from one website I visited ....



Steel products can be recycled repeatedly without loss of strength.
Recycling steel saves the equivalent energy to power about 18 million households for a year.
More than 80 million tons of steel are recycled each year in North America.
For every ton of steel recycled, 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone are conserved.
Almost 69 percent of all steel is derived from recycling plants in North America each year more than paper, aluminum, plastic, & glass combined. North Americas average steel recycling rate has been in excess of 60 percent since 1970.
More than 95 percent of the water used for making steel in North America is recycled.
One scrapped car produces more than four steel utility poles.
95 percent of the steel taken from commercial construction demolition sites was recycled and made into new steel products in 2002.
100 percent of a steel roof can be recycled. Asphalt roofs zero percent. (Steel roofs provide your family with excellent protection against wind, water, snow, ice, and fire and are even hail-resistant. Asphalt roofs actually weigh twice as much as steel roofs. Steel roofs can last over 50 years, while traditional roofs last only 17 years!
Steel food cans are the most recycled food package. 24,000 community recycling programs in North America collect steel cans. Canned food is as nutritious as its fresh and frozen counterparts upon preparation! Canned goods do not contain preservatives!!
All 99 pounds of steel in the average major appliance can be recycled to make
new steel products.

I should also add that globally, the numbers are reversed. So 70% of global production is from plants using raw materials like iron ore with the rest being from recycling steel facilities. There is a pretty big steel recycling plant not too far away from where I live ... link below. Years back, my wife worked in the office for a company that made the flux powders that recycling steel plants used to cleanse the impurities out of recycled steel during the process.
Alberta Steel ....

I dont have any scrap anymore now that I got rid of all those 8N parts. I got nothing for the effort and gas to take them to town. I do save aluminum cans for an Ole Boy who didnt plan well for living as long as he has. He comes and gets it when hes around the area. Got about 100lb. whenever he shows up.

Might not effect prices west of the Mississippi but.....
https://www.nwitimes.com/business/l...1ff572ab63.html#tracking-source=mp-in-article

It must be pretty low around here too. No scrappers pawing through the garbage cans ahead of the trucks on Thursday night or early Friday morning.

In fact, a few miles down the road from me there was a riding mower sitting by the road for 3 days with no takers before I finally, reluctantly went and picked it up. A really nice running 15 h.p. 1972 Simplicity 3415S that only needed a front tire valve stem replaced and a good battery to mow again.

Now itll go to a local consignment auction and (hopefully) sell for a bit more than scrap!

They also fudge those ton ratings. Like a short ton or long ton ? Not the 2,000 lb one we normally think of.

Wow .... 100 pounds of aluminum cans is a lotta cans BMack. Soda pop of course, not beer right? Or maybe some of each?

(quoted from post at 06:20:59 10/06/22) its interesting that prices of scrap are still so low. with the supply chain issues all around that scrap would be high as well.
and everyone supposedly pushing going electric you would think the copper prices would be higher.

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Why would it be high? There's no demand for raw materials because nobody can make anything.

I hauled a washer, and dryer to the scrap yard. I drove 30 miles, and got $10.00. I still made money, because the trash dump was going to charge around $25.00 each. Stan

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ok a load to KC, MO on Tuesday of this week. Got 114.00@ ton for it. unprepared...full truck bodies lots of small pieces. They will not take anything large with the gas tanks still in or on them.

Our scrap metal price is $200 . Doesn't matter if long or short. Big or small. They have a 2800 hp chipper with automatic sorters. Will chip anything but transmission gears. And steel crankshafts. Burnt Prairie Il.

There is going to be a lot of scrap when the war in Ukraine is over, Russian tanks laying all over, let's hope it's not radioactive!

(quoted from post at 07:19:01 10/07/22) There is going to be a lot of scrap when the war in Ukraine is over, Russian tanks laying all over, let's hope it's not radioactive!

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They haven't finished picking up after WWII. What makes you think they're going to get around to cleaning up around Ukraine any time soon, even if the war ended today?