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The total weight of the scrap metal load.
Use the weight from a certified scale ticket where available, rather than a visual estimate.
The current price paid per kg for this scrap metal type.
Confirm the current rate directly with your local scrap yard or metals recycler — rates vary by metal type, grade/purity, and change frequently. Enter the price PER KILOGRAM even when the weight above is showing pounds: the unit switch moves the weight field and leaves this one exactly as typed. A US yard quotes per pound, and a pound is 0.45359237 kg, so multiply a per-lb price by 2.2046226 before entering it — $0.15/lb is $0.33/kg. A per-lb figure typed straight in is not rejected and not flagged, because it lands inside this field's 0.01 to 10 range: on the imperial opening load of 1,100 lb, entering 0.15 returns $74.84 for a load worth $165.00 at $0.15/lb, an under-report of 54.6%. A price quoted per US short ton needs a different sum again — divide by 907.18474 to get $/kg, so a $200/ton quote is $0.22/kg; typing 200 here would exceed the maximum of 10 and be pulled down to it.
Scrap weight
1,100 lb
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Scrap Metal Recycling Value Calculator: 1,100 lb — shown in imperial, US market. The link sets both, so the result they see is the one on your screen.
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Formula source(s)
- Estimated value = Scrap Weight × Price per Unit Weight — scrap metal prices are market-variable and change daily/regionally, and this calculator applies whatever current price you supply from your local scrap yard or metal market index.
Inputs used
- Scrap Metal Weight
- 1100 lb
- Price per kg ($, Current Local Scrap Rate)
What this calculation does not cover
- The yard grades the load, not you. Attachments and contamination come off at the scale — insulation still on the cable, plastic and rubber, brackets and fixings, concrete, dirt, oil — either as a deduction against the weight or by dropping the whole load into a lower grade paying a fraction of the rate entered above. A clean sort before it goes on the truck is usually worth more than the difference between two yards' quoted prices.
- This is gross value, and what you keep is what survives getting it there. Cutting and separating time, container or skip hire, the truck and the fuel all come off it, and on a low-value grade such as light iron they can eat the whole figure — which is how a load ends up genuinely worth less than nothing to haul.
- One rate for any quantity. Yards price in tiers and commonly set a minimum weight before the quoted grade rate applies at all, so a small load gets the walk-in price rather than the trade figure quoted for a full container. Enter the rate for the quantity you are actually bringing in, or this reads high on anything small.
Computed in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded. Presented in US customary units and US trade terminology. Where a formula follows a published standard, that standard and its edition are cited beside it on this page; where none governs, the page says so. Local amendments override model codes — verify against the code in force where you build.
Sources checked 2026-09-06 · in the site-wide review of 2026-09-06 · v1.0.1
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- Estimated value = Scrap Weight × Price per Unit Weight — scrap metal prices are market-variable and change daily/regionally, and this calculator applies whatever current price you supply from your local scrap yard or metal market index.
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