We supply the container at no charge while you are filling it for us. That is normal in this trade and it is not a favour. What is less normal is thinking about which container and where, which is the part that decides whether you actually end up with separated metal or one mixed bin.
What suits what
- Cages. Best for cable, offcuts, small parts and anything valuable. Open mesh means you can see what is in it, and so can we when we weigh it.
- Bins. For mixed steel, roofing iron, structural offcuts and general site metal. The volume container.
- Drums. For swarf, turnings and brass. A drum of brass turnings is worth more than it looks and keeping it separate is the whole point.
- Pallets and stillages. For motors, compressors, radiators and anything that stacks.
- Nothing at all. For a one-off clear-out, a truck and a day beats a container sitting around.
Placement is the part everyone gets wrong
- Closer than the general bin. This is the rule. If separating metal costs your crew extra steps, it will not happen past the first week.
- Where the metal is made. Next to the machine, the bench or the bay, not in a tidy corner of the yard.
- Where the truck can reach it. No point placing a bin somewhere we need to hand-carry out of.
- Out of the forklift run. A bin in a traffic path becomes a problem on day two.
- Under cover if you can. Rain adds weight that is not metal and downgrades some grades.
Running more than one
Two containers is usually the sweet spot: one for volume metal and one for the valuable grade. Look at the spread in this table and it is obvious why.
Indicative rates, the same ones on the home page. Metal markets move every week, so ring 0435 805 124 for the exact figure before you load up.
One mixed bin gets paid at close to the rate of the cheapest thing in it. A second container for copper, brass or stainless costs you nothing and is the difference between the top of this table and the bottom.
Getting one
- Ring with your trade, your suburb and roughly what you generate.
- We work out container type, size and how many.
- Delivered and placed where you tell us it needs to be.
- Collected on call, or on a cycle if the volume is steady.
- Swapped full for empty, so you are never without one.