Scrap Prices

[njdevi11]

I have a 96 explorer I'm planning on taking to the scrap yard, I was told by the owner of the yard that he pays $1.25 per hundred pounds for a non-runner. Does this seem like a fair price? I thought it was going to be a little more then that.

What are scrap prices around by you?

[JD_countryboy]

I know scrap prices have plumeted from those of summer. I was gettin $.12 to $.14 a pound for most any steel scarp, shredder ready. Last i hauled was in Sept, $.08 a pound. But at that time aluminum cans were $.75 a pound. I was past the yard last sat, now alum cans are $.45. Id have to call and check on the steel price. but i know it aint $.08 a pound now.

[hraney]

that seems pretty cheap. I don't know exactly what they are right now, but car bodies were nearly $10.00cwt back during the summer around here. I think even now they are close to $4.00cwt. I haven't priced short iron or aluminum in a while even though I have a lot I need to get rid of. Are there some other scrap yards you could check w/? I assume that price is you carrying it to them, or is that a pick-up price?

[625fireman]

Scrap prices hear in NEOhio have gone in the toilet. In june they were pushing $500 a metric ton, now they are at a penny a pound.:eek: I have some laying around myself, personally I am gonna sit on it till it goes back up. It has to right????:confused:

[Sundance]

Like all commodities, metals have tanked. Added to this
is that smelters always shut down in the fall for 1 month
for maintainance and cleaning. Stell always tumbles in
the fall and then recovers. But not this time.....

The only near range hope for metals to recover is a
infrastructure package. China has instituted one in
it's country and that will have an effect on metals.
If the USA follows suit (and it should) metals will
rebound. By how much??? Who knows.