Know your scrap before you sell it
How to sort copper, brass and aluminum, what to expect at the yard, and how scrap prices work, from the team at Copper Recycling Corp. in Harrisburg, PA and Corpus Christi, TX.
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Every guide comes from the team at our Harrisburg and Corpus Christi yards, and each one is dated and kept up to date. About the CRC team →
2yards behind the guides: Harrisburg, PA and Corpus Christi, TX
2guides and growing
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What we buy and how to sort it
#1 vs #2 copper: how to tell them apart
#1 copper is clean, bare, uncoated copper. #2 is still plain copper, but with some solder, paint or coating, and runs about 96% copper. Here's how to sort it.
Scrap prices and the market
What's the highest paying scrap metal right now?
Of the metals most people bring in, copper pays the most per pound, and bare bright wire is the top grade. Here's how copper, brass and wire rank, and why prices move daily.