metal?
What kind of metal?
How much would they pay for a ton of old used solar panels?
The last time I dumped iron/steel, I recall getting 3 cents per. That was a long time ago.
I’ve heard that the price of lumber, which was recently sky-high, has also fallen considerably.
I cannot answer your price drop question; but I question:
You transported half a ton (!!!) of Scrap Metal.
You must have your own moving equipment, right?
That must include some kind of scale to weigh it all.
Are there still many Blast Furnaces around?
Cars went from $155/ton to $110/ton recently here. Cars have been low for a few years now.
Had a couple of junk S10s sitting here that I recently took in. I saw guys with a pickup load of tin which is probably what you’re referring to when you say metal. I hope they lived really close by, otherwise they spent the scrap money in fuel. Maybe they were just cleaning up their yard/garage etc.
I won’t take in tin by itself but I’ll add it to a vehicle if I have one to scrap. 50 mile round trip to the scrap yard.
Copper is down 5% indicating slackening manufacturing and if manufacturing is slowing then nobody needs scrap.
Just another symptom of the Brandon economic spiral.
Does this mean my catalytic converter is safe?
Projects dry up when financial incentives are gone.
Yes its a sign of slowing economy.
Even gold has declined. Down 15% in the last 3 months, from about $2000/oz to around $1700.
Price fixing... With this economy it should be up like it was during the record Obama years...
I was told by a guy at a scrap yard on the Ohio River that the scrap they were loading on barges would eventually end up China. If the demand for your scrap is down, China must be slowing down.
For the past ten years the scrap metal I produce goes in the trash. It is so cheap as to not be worth the diesel to drive to the scrap yard and the scrappers won’t waste their time picking up anything from the small machine and fab shops in town.