Scrap steel value

[Triple-S]

I heard today that the value of scrap steel was just £10 per ton; when I last had to scrap a car I got £85 per ton. Are we going back to the dark days when abandoned cars littered our highways? It will not pay now to hire a transporter to take a wreck to the metal recyclers, so what will they do to earn a crust?

I know its not our fault and probably lots of recyclers will have to reduce their payroll to stay afloat, but will "they" re-introduce scrappage to promote more new car sales, or will the motor industry reduce output of new cars as they are so reliable nowadays? I fear the former.

Certainly the EMR scrap metal company along the coast from Brighton was bare when I went past there by bus the other day - perhaps we will return to the good old days when traditional local scrap yards held on to older cars for us vultures to pick clean when we needed a part.

Any ideas?

P

[magnuz]

I seem to remember, a few years ago when cars were abandoned on the road side, the government made it so the car manafacturers had to pay so much towards the scrapping of the car, & some of it was passed on to the owner or person scrapping the car!
Don't know if that still applies ?

[Marty Dolomite]

Originally Posted by Triple-S

I heard today that the value of scrap steel was just £10 per ton; when I last had to scrap a car I got £85 per ton. Are we going back to the dark days when abandoned cars littered our highways? It will not pay now to hire a transporter to take a wreck to the metal recyclers, so what will they do to earn a crust?

I know its not our fault and probably lots of recyclers will have to reduce their payroll to stay afloat, but will "they" re-introduce scrappage to promote more new car sales, or will the motor industry reduce output of new cars as they are so reliable nowadays? I fear the former.

Certainly the EMR scrap metal company along the coast from Brighton was bare when I went past there by bus the other day - perhaps we will return to the good old days when traditional local scrap yards held on to older cars for us vultures to pick clean when we needed a part.

Any ideas?

P

The pikeys will carry on stealing cable and pinching stuff from peoples gardens its just that that won't 'earn' so much, as for car scrap yards the reason most of them have disappeared is due to environmental laws making it very expensive to stock pile cars they all have to be drained of oils, water, fluids etc, air con gas have to be extracted and the land has hard standing and drainage pit in so any contaminates drain into a capture tank.
so there wont be a return to the days of scrap yards

[wimorrison]

Yep, changed days, I had to pay to get a pile of scrap lifted from my yard. A few years ago they collected for free and made their money from the sale of the collection - at one point they used to pay and collect!

[kieran40]

China is struggling and not building in the same way they were, they buy the scrap from the yards and determine the price it's been sh@t for a while, even the pikeys have given up driving round all day looking for metal lol. Keep an eye out on china as soon as they get back in the game the sooner the price will go up.

Even copper and lead are very poor.

[brickman]

It comes and goes, bit it's looking to be in a slump for a while, not sure if that means metal thieves will do something else for a while or go even harder at it to make up the difference?

Means there will be more cheap knackered cars around though, not bad for those who depend on old cars for parts at breakers though, esp since mftrs don't support much beyond 6 years old....

[60041]

The Toerags around here aren't bothering with scrap now; some of them are stealing wood and then driving around selling logs, while the rest of them are doing house clearances or collecting tyres and fly tipping along the country lanes.

[GreenBrick]

I got 50 quid for a complete car (MOT failure 80K miles only) last week. And only because it had alloys on!
They said leave it a few weeks and I would have had to have paid to have it removed!!! Sad times... But good if you want to buy a spares car!