How to Scrap Plumbing Brass
Brass is an extremely common metal that is found all over your home, office, work site, and more. You can find faucets, EDM wire, hose spigots, metal pens, and many other common items that are made of brass and are perfect for scrap recycling. Brass can often be found on the end of copper wire as well. But by far the most common way to scrap brass is to recycle old plumbing materials. Here’s what you need to know when recycling plumbing brass.
How to Identify Brass
If you aren’t sure if a metal is brass, simply scratch it with a file. Brass will be yellow when scratched. It is usually combined with metals like zinc and copper to create a product, so scratching those away reveals the brass beneath. Heavy copper content will lend brass a reddish color. When looking for brass scrap, don’t forget areas like the valves on grills and ovens, as well as sinks and even some silverware.
Scrapping Plumbing Brass
If you have the ability to separate the brass from the copper, such as with copper tubing that has brass ends, be sure to do so. The copper will fetch a higher price than the brass. As for the brass plumbing scrap itself, the price can change based on region and market, but you can expect to see around $1.00-$1.40/lb today.
Other Types of Brass
In addition to plumbing brass, brass shells, brass water meters, brass radiators, and other types of items made of brass can be recycled. Getting the best prices is always a matter of careful sorting. As far as pricing plumbing brass, most of the time it is very difficult to quote best price for plumbing brass over the phone because it usually consists of a variety of different materials, from plastic to copper. If its a mix load, we can always give you best average price once we see it, or you can sort it to get top prices.
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You can watch the market and wait for a better price for your plumbing brass scrap, but why wait? Scrap Stop offers the highest prices in the region, and our no-hassle system makes it easy for you to get in, unload your scrap, and get paid.
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