Any one have prices for items other than steel - Page 5

Originally Posted by ryanw

CA does a review of reimbursement per pound pretty frequently. Last I paid attention it was 1.68/lb.

Last review was $1.59

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Bevcont...mRate15At2.pdf

If that's still the case I was mistaken. I thought a yard owner was telling me a few months ago that it went up.

Grand island NE tin\ light iron 40 a ton up $10 in the last week or so

I asked the other day what they were paying for copper 1.62 for #1 and 1.49 for #2 and that's the price in Stl where I contract at. Didn't ask about aluminum or anything else. The only reason I asked or inquired was someone sent me a picture of a yard in Miami that's paying 1.97 a lb for #1. It was a new scrapyard that just opened. I doubt they will be in business for long with a 10 cent profit margin.

Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

I asked the other day what they were paying for copper 1.62 for #1 and 1.49 for #2 and that's the price in Stl where I contract at. Didn't ask about aluminum or anything else. The only reason I asked or inquired was someone sent me a picture of a yard in Miami that's paying 1.97 a lb for #1. It was a new scrapyard that just opened. I doubt they will be in business for long with a 10 cent profit margin.

Yards in Miami are just Bat-Guano nutty. you realize there are a Manure-ton of yards literally right next door to each other so price competition is completely out of control, I would not: buy, sell, or even golf with any of them. they are notorious for grading games, scale games, deductions etc. In short anything you hear about Miami scrap prices has to be taken with a bucket of salt

V/r HT1

These are the "numbers", that a lot of us in California should be looking at. As this is really what counts and a "report card" on the effectiveness of the CRV program.

Subject: Subject: Biannual Report of Beverage Container Sales, Returns, Redemption, and Recycling RatesPublic Resources Code Section 14551 requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to report biannually on the redemption and recycling rates for each six-month period within 130 days of the end of that period. Enclosed, please find the Biannual Report of Redemption and Recycling Rates for the six-month period of January through June 2015.
The beverage container recycling rate for all materials during the January through June 2015 period is 86 percent. Material specific recycling rates are as follows: aluminum 97 percent, glass 76 percent, #1 PET 81 percent, #2 HDPE 78 percent, #3 PVC 59 percent, #4 LDPE 2 percent, #5 PP 6 percent, #6 PS 25 percent,#7 other 12 percent, and bimetal 24 percent.
The recycling rate is the number of CRV beverage containers redeemed divided by the number of CRV beverage containers sold. Sold container counts are derived from reports received by CalRecycle directly from distributors; whereas, recycled container counts are derived from the redemption weight, from shipping reports, multiplied by the container per pound rate.

That's 97% of aluminum beverage cans sold, being processed, recycled and back on store shelves in just a couple of months. I would say California's CRV program is overall very effective. We just need to do something about the those "out of state" cans and bottles!

Here is the link to CalRecycle for those wanting more info: CalRecycle Home Page

@ht1 I realize that. It's like that everywhere though. Most yards are always concentrated among other scrapyards. It's not like they put them in nice residential neighborhoods. There's one right across the street from where I'm at and another one a mile away. Go mile across the bridge and u can find 5 of them in a two mile stretch. It's competitive but if u honestly don't know what ur doing or can't grade ur scrap right then u kinda deserve what u get. When you go to a scrapyard you gotta have ur game face on and be organized with ur material. Scams are everywhere. Remember the scrapyard always wants to pay you as little as possible so they can make as much as possible. For every great customer that comes through the scale you get idiots with rocks in the aluminum cans and trash mixed in with the scrap, etc. dealing with people is a crap shoot you have ur good and bad customers.

Originally Posted by PistoneScrapProcessing

@ht1 I realize that. It's like that everywhere though. Most yards are always concentrated among other scrapyards. It's not like they put them in nice residential neighborhoods. There's one right across the street from where I'm at and another one a mile away. Go mile across the bridge and u can find 5 of them in a two mile stretch. It's competitive but if u honestly don't know what ur doing or can't grade ur scrap right then u kinda deserve what u get. When you go to a scrapyard you gotta have ur game face on and be organized with ur material. Scams are everywhere. Remember the scrapyard always wants to pay you as little as possible so they can make as much as possible. For every great customer that comes through the scale you get idiots with rocks in the aluminum cans and trash mixed in with the scrap, etc. dealing with people is a crap shoot you have ur good and bad customers.

Go Farther west, scrap yards have a tendency to spread out, and often use a Kiosk system literally a tiny little purchasing area, specializing in cans but able to buy anything in small quantities. that ship to full service yards regularly

The only reason for scrap yards to congregate is rail or port access, or zoning regulations, otherwise spreading out to better service customers would serve them better (excluding steel purchasing which just requires too much space and equipment($$$) to spread out over a small territory), now of course a yard near a major manufacturing center has a great foot up.


I said nothing about customers, I have went deeply into that elsewhere

V/r HT1

went to the yard last week
this is what i got for the stuff i took in:

cast alum- R12,20 per kg
alum-R 10,30 per kg
zinc- R7.00 per kg
copper R55.99 per kg
S/Steel R10,49 per kg

Sold more aluminum cans yesterday, still holding strong at $2.00 CRV. The same price for CRV plastic PETE $1.21, so I'm happy with the stable CRV prices. We are processing much more commercial waste this year, as all commercial businesses must now have a recycling program. We will sell a couple hundred pounds of Aluminum CRV this month alone and we actually sell more CRV plastic PETE than the aluminum cans (about twice as much). I sell to a yard that is both a California certified recycler and a CRV processor. Most of the local yards sell to the same processor as well. This yard processes over 50 million pounds of aluminum can CRV per year, with that kind of volume, they are able to pay a little more on the scrap price of aluminum.

Originally Posted by bigburtchino

Sold more aluminum cans yesterday, still holding strong at $2.00 CRV. The same price for CRV plastic PETE $1.21, so I'm happy with the stable CRV prices. We are processing much more commercial waste this year, as all commercial businesses must now have a recycling program. We will sell a couple hundred pounds of Aluminum CRV this month alone and we actually sell more CRV plastic PETE than the aluminum cans (about twice as much). I sell to a yard that is both a California certified recycler and a CRV processor. Most of the local yards sell to the same processor as well. This yard processes over 50 million pounds of aluminum can CRV per year, with that kind of volume, they are able to pay a little more on the scrap price of aluminum.

Are you saying that business pay you to get rid of there CRV items as they must have a recycling program?

Hobo - Short answer: Yes! We also pay them a percentage on all recycled scrap including CRV.

Alum cans w/ .10 coupon .45
Old cast aluminum .28
Old sheet aluminum .28
Electric motors .05
#2 Ins copper wire .60
Auto Cast ( rotors / drums ) 170/Ton

Terrible price for electric motors

Took a bit in today. #2 Cu (cleaned up tv yokes) $1.58 a pound, #2 insulated light gauge 48 cents a pound, brass breakage @ 40 cents a pound. I can live with #2 Cu going around $1.60 and insulated wire around 50 cents. I could live even more with it going for $1.80-2.00 or 65 cents as well but a lot better than $1.25 and 35 cents. Hand me some more crts (hahahahaha)!!

It sure is, I have a stash of electric motors I will just keep adding the weight up until the price comes back!

#1 copper $1.85.
#2 copper $ 1.70
In grand island Nebraska