Check Recycle Prices! Everything, prices (daily) How much MONEY can that recyclable scrap bring you?

ATTENTION!!!  Recently, the recycle net from which I had links here for theie websites has attempted to "LOCK UP" the American recycle industry has succeeded, so that now it takes a "subscription" to gety any sense of what the market prices.  I have contacted the -- have sent them easily 100,000 readers -- and they have not responded.  My suggestion is to Hold Hold Hold your scrap until you have contacted the local recyclers compared prices, and related to them what their competition is offering for your stuff and possibly even contacting some other out of the area to get a feel for the prices being paid for scrap locally, and nationally.

I will leave the links here -- but I apologize that RECYCLE dot NET has determined to make a global monopoly of the recycle information.  Visit their site, and realize -- you are the source of their riches.

Any way here is another site that has not locked up in the global recycle information monopoly:

www.ask.com/bar

www.ask.com/bar

www.local.com/results.aspx

scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/

http://scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/

For those who want to get right to it:  But you will haved to pay a subscription price.  I don't recommend it.  I will haved to do some checking.  These guys are cutting your throat -- and I think this will turn out negative for them. . . we'll see.  I may have to take this post down!

http://scrapindex.com/
http://www.recycle.net/

Check Recycle Prices! Everything, prices (daily) How much MONEY can that recyclable scrap bring you?

Click on any of these links to get your education in order.

http://scrapindex.com/
http://www.recycle.net/
http://www.recycle.net/Metal-I/scrap/index.html
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http://scrapindex.com/

http://www.scrapindex.com/plastic.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/metal.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/paper.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/municipal.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/electronics.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/glass.html 8 categories, and more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/auto.html 8 categories, and more links

http://www.recycle.net/Metal-N/Aluminum/index.html 28+ categories (used beverage cans)
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For those not familiar! Read on!

See the very BOTTOM of this xombyte for tips and my advice on prices you may get for your recycle stuff!

These prices are what you want to KNOW, and you can find out everyday!

Here are your aluminum beer or pop cans:

Used Beverage Containers (UBC)
Loose whole or flattened aluminum beverage cans, free from excessive dirt, liquid or other foreign materials. Equivalent to ISRI code TALAP or former code TALC. Yesterday, but YOU go look.

http://www.recycle.net/Metal-N/Aluminum/index.html

Less than TruckLoad= . / lb A TruckLoad = ./lb

Used Beverage Cans (UBC)
Truckload = 40,000lbs (20 tons)
----Less than Truckload ----Full Truckload
Loose UBC--------0.29-----------------0.58/lb
Shredded UBC-- 0.72 -----------------0.87/lb
Baled UBC--------0.75 -----------------0.90/lb
Briquetted UBC 0.78 -----------------0.93/lb

So how much did you and the guys or gals drink on Superbowl Sunday? Yeah, Gear-up for the NIT, the Madness of March!

(For those of you looking for the Gedanken Diamond part of this, I am in the process of reposting it as "The Diamond made from air. . ." http://www.xomba.com/A_Diamond_made_from_air
--Les Porter)

GLOBAL WARMING - CLIMATE CHANGE

Because of concern for the reality of Global Warming, and more CO2 being shoved into the air with refining, steel and iron scrap are priced high, and will likely go higher as realistic reactions to GHG emissions penalties begins to stress the environmental costs of raw materials acquisition. Manufacturing will be using more recycled materials -- since the energy cost of extracting the metal from rock can be avoided. Keep that in mind, scrappers!

Scrap prices down? Note: I post this update, late at night local Friday, November 14, 2008 -- those of you who have been seeing scrap prices fall, please realize that it is a temporary situation that will be righted when the economy is made whole again. This is not likely to happen soon without an injection of money to the bottom end of the social structure -- whereupon it can bubble-up to allow the formation of jobs, the reductions of debt and credit debt especially -- that will increase manufacturing either in the USA which we need, or in China -- where WE do not need it.

In either case, Scrap prices will rise on manufacturing either abroad or locally. Recycling pays social benefits, saving the system by not having to mine or pump the raw materials again. Keep the faith.

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No.2 Steel
No.2 Steel shall consist of clean iron & steel with a minimum thickness of 1/8", and a maximum size of 60"x18", material handling compatible to feed a furnace charge box.

Market Average : LTL= $ 137.74 Truckload=$ 172.17 /ton USD
March 4 spot, USA

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This is where you go to look up the prices Scrap Recyclers are getting and giving!

http://www.recycle.net/

Once you get into the RECYCLER'S WORLD main page, you can scroll down and select among catagories.
These are the main Categories:
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Automotive Recycling
(Used parts finder service)
Battery Recycling
Computer And Electronics Recycling
Non-Ferrous Metal Recycling
Scrap Iron & Steel
Exotic Metals Recycling
Precious Metals Recycling
Minerals Recycling
Plastic Recycling
Glass/Fiberglass Recycling
Tire and Rubber Recycling
Textile Recycling
Wood Recycling
Paper Recycling
Liquid Oils and
Chemicals Recycling
Compost & Food Waste
Multi-Material Collection
Waste Collection, Haulage, and Disposal
Used Commercial Goods
New Equipment
Used Equipment
Equipment Finder Service
Used Consumer Items
Used Collectible Items

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THESE are Your Links! Try them, copy them and paste them in your recycle file, not the recycle bin! This is where you get the prices! How much your stuff might be worth!
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http://scrapindex.com/

http://www.scrapindex.com/plastic.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/metal.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/paper.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/municipal.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/electronics.html 8 categories, more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/glass.html 8 categories, and more links
http://www.scrapindex.com/auto.html 8 categories, and more links

http://www.recycle.net/Metal-N/Aluminum/index.html 28+ categories (used beverage cans)

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There is even a category for Cara's used shoes, and dresses! (And I looked! Shoes today, 90 cents a pair; but if they are clean, perfect, like for dancing, you could get $4.50 a pair. Some they just cut up for fodder for leather makers. Otherwise they end in a landfill!)

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Abandoned monitor,recycleable (gold in it!)
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Here is some of the good stuff:
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For example:
NICKEL: Nickel Scrap
Nickel Scrap shall consist of high purity Nickel scraps with a Nickel content in excess of 98%.
Market Average : Less than Truckload = $12.67/lb Truck Load= $16.90/ lb USD
LTL = less than TruckLoad ---- TL=Truckload a truckload is 40,000 lbs.

If you have 40,000 lbs of Nickel it is worth $676,000 on yesterday's spot market. You might get more or less than that for your scrap Nickel.

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HOW MUCH will you get?  That is what this posting is about.

Tips:
At the lowest end of the scrap scale, if you have good quality scrap and lots of it, and you visit a large recycler you will get the best price they can give you. It will surprise you sometimes.

Once I took an 8'x10'x4'load on one of my little dump trucks (an F-450 Ford Heavy Duty) (Even retired Scientists sometimes have a dumptruck or two. . .) and carried to the recycler 1643 lbs of Aluminum beverage cans. (UBC) Because I had so much I got a good price; Aluminum Cans were up at the time and I got 68 cents a pound, that was $1117.24.

Other times I hauled loads of scrap iron, and even once a load of "tin" cans. I was disappointed with the plastic then, but the market is improved now. But then, the HDPE I had, totalled about 1400 lbs in two loads -- I gave away. They were paying a penny a pound.
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Knowledge is Money:  Use the links of this posting to find what the value of your recycle material is.

Call the Recyclers in your vicinity. Talk to them succintly. Don't waste their time

The real point I want to make here is: if you have several larger recyclers around your area, it is best to call each of them, describe your scrap estimating its weight, and listen to what they will offer, and if it is acceptable jot down the person's name, give them your name and when you get there look that person up show him what you've got, confirm the price and get your money. (Only waste their time if you have a sizeable amount of clean stuff, if not, check their prices and deliver -- and get your money on the spot.) On aluminum cans, I always ask if they have higher prices for 100 lb quantities, and for 1000 lb quantities.

Call around to see who has the best price. And if you will explore the links above -- you will KNOW what the best price is, and you will be able to get a significant fraction of those spot prices, daily when you deal. Unless you have multiple Truckloads (40,000 lbs each) you will be looking good at 75% to 85% of the values you see. But the big thing is to KNOW. If you have a large quantity, you might get 85% or even 95%(or more), since the recycler wants to have it in what he sells! You will often get the 100% of the values you see on the links above if you go to the larger recyclers.

Most of us are consumers. Most of us are Fodder. When you go this way, you can be a Player.

AUCTIONS

Auctions are another way to acquire scrap stuff along with the good stuff you actually want to fix up for your use, or to sell --  or to boost your portfolio of scrap. At an auction you can buy good stuff at scrap prices, if you know what those prices are.

Look at the auction listing, and see if there is any potential recycle profit for you in it.  Then look at the listings and links above to KNOW the current scrap values of what is for sale at the auction.

KNOWing the scrap value will help you know what to bid -- and you can bet some other bidders there DO know.

If you have never before been to the industrial interface of recycling it might be a shock to you. If you have time and some thing to recycle, use a visit to the recycler as an educational opportunity. 

When you go down to the recycle place with a load of something, you are going to see all sorts of people walking in carrying stuff to recycle. "Stuff" you never thought had any value at all.

But it does!