Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Act and the scrap it relies on
Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Act is the legislative instrument that turns supply security into numbers, and the numbers include recycling targets that can only be met with material the scrap trade currently does not record. The act, adopted in 2024, sets 2030 benchmarks for extraction, processing and recycling and a concentration limit on any single […]
ScrapTrade: Bringing Scrap Listings and Trading Opportunities Together
Ask a scrap yard owner what would improve their business and ‘more buyers’ comes up almost every time, usually followed by ‘but I don’t want to change how I work’. A marketplace is how you get one without the other. Once deals start moving through a marketplace, keeping purchase and sale records straight becomes a […]
Online Scrap Trading vs Traditional Scrap Trading: Key Differences
Ask a scrap yard owner what their biggest operational problem is and you’ll rarely hear ‘buying metal’. You’ll usually hear something about records, stock, or finding the time to follow anything up. The scrap inventory management software walkthrough on scrap.trade covers which records are actually worth keeping and why. It’s fair to say that no […]
How Local Scrap Yards Can Start Selling Scrap Online
The scrap trade has always run on relationships. What’s changed lately is that those relationships can now start online instead of across a counter. Getting the structure of a deal right matters more than most beginners expect, and the tips for successful scrap deals guide walks through it plainly. You’ll also find that honesty about […]
How Material Grades Affect Your Choice of Scrap Trading Business
There’s no shortage of people in the scrap trade willing to handle your material for you. Working out which of them are actually good at it is the interesting part. Emerging streams are worth knowing about too, and the solar panel scrap and recycling walkthrough is a good example of where the trade is heading. […]
How Scrap Becomes a Commodity in the Recycling Industry
There’s a real logic to how the scrap business works, and once it clicks, a lot of the initial uncertainty falls away. If you’re just getting to grips with how this industry works, the scrap trading glossary is a handy reference to keep close by. It’s worth saying up front that this isn’t a get-rich-quick […]
Understanding Scrap Specifications for Commercial Sellers
There’s a big difference between selling a bit of scrap from a garage cleanout and supplying commercial quantities to a real buyer. If you’re new to this side of things, selling scrap in bulk is worth understanding properly, and we’ll cover the essentials here. When you first look into bulk scrap, a lot of the […]
Why We Often Overlook the Value of Scrap
Think about the last time you threw something metal away. Did you see rubbish, or did you see something with real value? It turns out there’s a simple answer to this, and how different people see scrap explains it beautifully. How a Recycler Sees It A recycler sees the long game. What looks like the […]