money to be made in metal?

si-mate

Someone told me the other day that car batteries are fetching in excess of £1000 / tonne which must be around 60 -80 batteries.

Absolut_Wench

Definitely. A friend of mine regularly does house and garden clearances and he told me today that the price of scrap has risen recently - especially copper.

Several years ago, I was part of a clearance/decontamination crew. The lads let me have the scrap aluminium and a load of cable as a bonus as I was going on holiday. We weighed it all in and I got about £450 - sorted for holiday spending money! We didn't have time to strip the cable, but still got a good price for it.

Tinman

Is it true that the inards of a shower are worth a few pounds??

Inactive

The increase in the price of scrap steel is so high, it has impacted upon our inflation figures, yes seriously.

woodbutcher_2

Scrap metal prices have shot up so much that i regularly see men in vans driving round rummaging through skips and after a hiatus,the rag and bone man seems to be making a comeback.

My mate owns a garage and is getting up to £200 for scrap cars now.Nobody wanted them a while back.

Thefts of all things metal are now at an all time high to such an extent that organised crime is now involved,regularly stripping whole villages of all their street drains overnight.

So it's definitely worth taking scrap back before someone nicks it.

Ionkontrol

My dad supplements his pension with skip searching, plent of buliders throw out loads of copper, brass etc.
He regularly get about £300 a month from it.

FinancialDisaster

Any guide to what holds what in terms of scrap value, ie. PC's, Showers, Boilers, Brassware etc etc. I realise that different merchants will pay different prices but a guide to what is salvagable from say a PC would be blinding.

I have a volume of PC's (old ones the company didn't want) that I am looking to offload but want to maximise my money of course....(all hard drives have been wiped and physically damaged as per advice in another thread).

Regards,

FD

thebaldwindowfitter

i was recently told that scrap copper was 3k per ton and mixed metal was just under 1k .thats why theres hungarian gypsies roaming the streets nicking grids because 20 of them weigh 1 tonne