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How To Sell Scrap Metal To A Scrap yard For The Most Money

We can all agree that the last thing we need in life is another way to lose money. If you are busy replacing old appliances, remodeling a new home, or just cleaning out some old scrap metal, don’t you want to make some extra money doing it? What if I told you it could be as easy as bringing your junk to a scrap yard? 

That’s right, all across America, people are hauling in their junk! From the basement to the attic, it’s getting pulled and hauled away for cash! 

A scrap yard is a place where patrons sell scrap metal recyclables.

Scrap Metal Recycling

The trick to scrap metal recycling is simply knowing what something is worth! The value of scrpa meterials depends entirely on what your scrap yard is paying! If you keep tabs on meta prices in your area, you can often find yourself some pretty awesome deals!

For example; in my area, scrap metal (mixed metal) is worth roughly 12¢ per pound. My local thrift store had a sale on all of it’s cast iron sinks. “75% off all sinks” it said. 

This was good news to a guy like me. Each one of these scrap sinks had a beat up brass faucet attached; They were almost all priced between $20-$40 regularly. The sale made them all between $5-$10. 

Each sink weighed about 100 pounds, and therfore was worth $12 dollars, just for the steel. The Brass was worth ~ $1.70 per pound. Long story short, I left there with 12 sinks minus $60, and then left the scrap yard about an hour later with ~$250.

The only reason I knew this was a good deal was because I was paying attention to scrap metal prices.

Scrap Metal Prices

The most up to date scrap metal prices can be found at Scrap Metal Junkie, which has both Scrap metal prices updated daily, and a scrap metal forum for users to discuss metal prices.  

If I told you that a broken computer was worth $15 dollars in scrap metal, would you kick yourself after thinking of all the computers you just threw in the trash? Maybe not, but at least you will think twice before doing it again!

Making Money From Scrap Metal

Once you learn how to properly sort and seperate your metal on scrapmetaljunkie.com, you will be fast on your way to conquering the recycling world!

Each metal needs to be in it’s own seperate bucket when getting weighed in at a yard. The more experience you get with this inteaction, the more money you will make on every trip. 

If you save scrap metal products like copper, aliminum, brass,lead, and zinc, you will make more money then slling ferrou smetals like steel and iron. 

About the Author

The Scrap Metal Junkie Forum is a site dedicated to enriching the scrap metal recycling community from the base up!

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