The metal recycling industry is big business.  It’s not something you may I often think of because most metal recycling facilities located in the industrial parts of cities away from the businesses that most people frequent on a day-to-day basis. In our neck of the woods, which is Sun Valley California, we are located interest or industrial Area on Tuxford Street. And just because scrap metal recycling is a rather dirty and grungy pursuit doesn’t mean it’s not a vital part of any country’s economy.

Just taking a look at aluminum cans for example, Think about all the soft drink or beer trucks you see delivering hundreds or thousands of aluminum cans to grocery stores, many markets or restaurants.  This happens day in and day out. All those hundreds of thousands of cans will Be consumed and tossed out.  Well, maybe not tossed out the toast into the recycling bin. Then the process starts all over again. Do the metals come from for the next hundred thousand aluminum cans? You guessed it, from metal recycling centers such as ours.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that our country moves on metal.  Think railroad tracks, Automobiles, Aircraft and much more. Having to mine for metals it’s costly and time consuming so of course operations are going to need scrap metal to continue to do business. With these descriptions we’re merely touching the surface of the metal recycling industry. You can think of  Industry in general, gracious monster that needs to be constantly fed.  Not with food but with metal.  Companies like ours supply this constant need without which our country and indeed to rest of the world would grind to a halt.

Companies like Ibisworld which track the revenue of various businesses and industries also keep track of secondary metals market can see from the article on this webpage of their website the power industry generates $50 billion per year.

Metal Recycling and Business

That’s a tremendous amount of money and it’s one of the reasons that we, as well as’s most others get into the cycling business, do what we do. Aside from altruism we’re in this business to make a profit because of our constant need greater and greater amounts of nonferrous medals every day we depend on our customers to deliver those metals to us. They are the first step in the recycling process and they as well as us can make a sizable profit by bringing scrap metals to a facility like ours.

If you want to be part of this $50 billion industry and you are living in the Los Angeles area and Enjoying the TM scrap metals team and bring your scrap metals to us. We truly are the best scrap metal recycling facility in the San Fernando Valley we want to be the name remember when you think about Metal recycling.

https://www.tmscrapmetals.com

Recycling of metals can pay well depending on how much you have and the type of metal it is. As we wrote many times before, nonferrous metals are going to have a bigger payout  compared to ferrous metals. Copper continues to be one metal  that pays the  most  per pound. That brings us to the subject of pennies. These ubiquitous copper coated coins remind everybody about copper since that’s what we see when we hold one in our hands, but is it worth it to recycle these one cent pieces? Not really, and here’s why.

Way back when the United States was first formed and Benjamin Franklin was in charge design and minting of coins, that first penny was made of 100% copper. Given enough of these pennies, they could easily be melted down and recycled. Of course we’re talking about pennies that are now over 200 years old and are worth more as coins in the ever would be as recycled metal.

In the years since our country’s founding, however, the composition of our pennies is changed. Just after the Civil War the composition changed from 100% copper to 95% copper and 5% zinc. Fast forward to the late 20^th Century and up to today that ratio has flipped and our modern-day pennies are more than 95% zinc and less than 5% copper. On a side note you may once in a while find a penny that has no copper. These were produced during World War II when the government needed as much copper as possible.

Trying to salvage copper from today’s pennies would probably take more effort than it’s worth given the low copper content. When all is said and done the answer is no. It’s not worth taking a wheelbarrow of pennies to your local recycling center. You’re better off taking them to your local grocery store or pharmacy that has a Coinstar machine and turning them in for a cash payout.

Other forms of  copper are of course still in demand and if you have copper pipes or other plumbing fixtures, pots and pans that  are past their prime, or anything else made of that metal, it’s worth bringing it to a metal recycling center like TM Scrap Metals.

On a note that’s unrelated to metal recycling, it may just pay extremely well to go through that piggy bank or jar of old coins and take a look at every single penny. Some extremely valuable coins have been found in circulation decades or centuries after they were first minted.  If you find one that looks a little different from today’s modern penny, even though it may be the same size and weight, hold onto it and check out valuable coins online before you take it to your nearest Coinstar machine.

Otherwise, if it’s metal, odds are it can be recycled. If you’re in Los Angeles area the one name you need to remember for metal recycling is TM Scrap Metals.  We may not take your pennies but we will pay top dollar!

https://www.tmscrapmetals.com