In message <watAj.19736$XI.4937@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jette
<bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>I used to work in a scrapyard. Been a long time since scrapyards paid
>for scrap metal such as copper or iron - it's just not worth it. In
>fact, now scrapyards have a great new way to make money - they _charge_
>people for recycling their waste metal.
No, scrapyards will take even small amounts of metal, as long as it's
the right metal. Scrap copper prices have boomed over the last few
years, to about three thousand quid a tonne when I last looked. We sold
an old stainless steel sink to the local scrapyard (Daltons down in
Salamander St.) for two quid a while back -- we were on our way to dump
it at Seafields along with other stuff and stopped in and asked on the
off-chance. Even that old traditional church-roof standby, lead is worth
about a quid a kilo, and easy-to-recycle aluminium cans are worth about
70p per kilo.
Iron and steel aren't particularly valuable but they are still worth
processing in sufficient quantities. Old iron with architectural value
such as decorative railings and stair balustrades are better off sold to
the specialist salvage places -- a while back some drunken idiots tried
to steal a few of the iron-lace balustrades (each weighing about
10-15kg) from our flat stair by wrenching them from their fittings in
the step and handrail. Luckily they were caught before they could phone
a taxi and make off with their loot and they had to pay about three
hundred quid to get the balustrades set back in place by a blacksmith.
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