Current Scrap Prices?

[r3k1355]

Niall even in the last 5 months the price of iron has halved and other stuff is taken a nose dive.
There won't be any point weighing anything in soon if the prices drop much further.

Back to those rare old days about a decade ago, when you had to pay a scrap yard to take a car away, so people would sell a car for 10 quid just to get shut of it.

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Citroen C5 Estate - matey offered £20.

Would of cost me to get it there, so now its just a skip until its full and until it evidently has to go

Is there some legal reason for at least one yard to take scrap cars even if it's free?  I tried 3 yards when getting rid of the HDi shell which was mostly complete tbh, I didn't remove much heavy stuff.  Two wanted to charge me £50 to collect it, the 3rd collected free of charge.  It's always been free collection down here due to the distance from the yard, but I can't understand why they'd take a worthless shell now unless they HAVE to?  I just thought maybe there's a legal obligation to depollute and issue destruction certificates for bigger yards?

We're thinking about breaking the Rover as the only offers have been less than offers for the wheels alone so far, but I don't want to partially strip it and then find we'll get charged for collection of the rest.

The only thing I can think of is maybe the yard has to process a certain number of depollute certificates a year to keep the government happy?
So maybe they're willing to collect for free just to issue a certificate??

I have no idea though??