Scrap aluminium prices can vary depending on the types and quality of your scrap.
Alloy wheels can achieve up to €15 for a single wheel.
There are a few types of rads on most modern cars.
water, AC, intercooler and internal heater. Your local scrap yard will offer you prices of up to €10 per rad.
Some cars will have multiple parts made from cast aluminium.
Engine heads, gearbox housings, wishbones and even engine mounts. Some of this ends up as scrap from maintenance.
Due to it’s higher value it is worth while separating aluminium from steel.
You’ll know whats worth while and what’s not.
The cleaner the aluminium the better the price.
Drinks cans made from aluminium are achieving over €800 per ton.
Volume is a bit of an issue as it takes 65000 cans (aprox) to make up 1 ton. In some countries charities collect cans to cash in for their use.
Although there are several cycles sometimes necessary before a final usable product is produced, the use of recycled material is more often than not more cost effective than to produce the said product from raw or new material. There is also the opportunity to earn good revenue from the setting up of recycle collection centers. This revenue earning point is always an encouraging avenue to pursue but unfortunately it is still a relatively lowly tapped venture.