Copper Content In Coins

Copper pennies and piggy bank for recycling

Is Recycling Pennies a Good Idea? 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 […]

Stainless Steel Scrap Pricing Differs Based on Location

stainless steel scrap in electric car

China Uses Less, Uses Different System Stainless steel scrap is an item we regularly see in our Los Angeles metal recycling yard. As we detailed in earlier metal recycling posts one of the values stainless steel is that other metals such as nickel can be gotten from it during the recycling process. Here in the […]

Nearest Recycling Center Los Angeles

nearest metal recycling center in Los Angeles

As Close As Your Phone We’re the L.A. recycling center that’s closer to you than any other. How is that possible? Simple. That’s because TM Scrap Metals has a mobile recycling service. Just what is that? Well, no matter where you are located in Los Angeles, you can merely give us a call and we […]

Scrap Metal Defined

Los Angeles recycling center aluminum image

Los Angeles Scrap Metal Dealer Explains Scrap metal is something that would seem self explanatory and not needing additional or more detailed definitions, but it does. At least the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) thinks it does. This may be for good reason because even though a scrap yard such as ours does try to recycle […]

Scrap Metal Prices: Do They Fluctuate?

Los Angeles scrap metal prices chart

Exploring Metal Pricing at Los Angeles Recycling Center “Scrap metal prices” is a popular search online. That’s because the scrap metal recycling Industry is quite popular. Metal recycling facilities like ours don’t get a lot of press, but those who know understand that money to be made from recycling old, scrap metal. That search is […]

Stainless Steel Scrap Prices

Scrap stainless steel prices in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Recycling Center Pays Cash for Scrap “Stainless steel scrap prices” is a popular search on Google.  A few thousand people search for this term each month. It’s not hard to determine why. Although a common metal stainless steel is important invaluable because it’s made up other metals that in and of themselves are […]

The Recycling Process for Metals

Scrap ferrous metal Los Angeles

Something Old Becomes New Again Recycling centers such as TM Scrap Metals have a system in place to quickly and efficiently recycle the various metals our customers bring to us. Others have codified this process such as this small business website that does a good job of explaining the steps, but in brief, metal recycling […]

Los Angeles Recycling Center Radius

Los Angeles recycling center location on map

TM Scrap Metals Reaches All Parts of the Southland Scrap metal recycling in Los Angeles is a multimillion dollar industry. You might not think it to look at a run of the mill recycling center. After all, we’re dealing with scrap and turning an old metal object into metal that’s ready for recycling is not […]