Recycle Scrap Metal For Cash: A Winter Guide
As Winter settles in across the prairies, many of us turn our attention indoors. With more time spent in garages, basements, and sheds, Winter is often when unused items finally get sorted and cleared out. While organizing storage spaces or replacing old appliances, you might be surprised to discover that your home is filled with valuable metals that can be turned into cash.
In this blog, we’ll explore the most common household items containing recyclable metals, and show you how easy it is to turn your unwanted items into extra spending money this Winter at Inland Steel Products.
The Benefits of Recycling Your Household Metals
Recycling metal from your home does more than free up space, it delivers real environmental and economic benefits:
- Less Waste in Landfills: Recycling metal instead of discarding it keeps long-lasting materials out of landfills. Many metals take centuries to decompose, making recycling a far more responsible option.
- Conserving Natural Resources: Producing metal from recycled material requires significantly less energy than mining and processing raw ore. For example, recycling aluminum uses up to 95% less energy, while recycling steel saves roughly 75%.
- Turn Scrap into Cash: Unused metal items can be exchanged for cash at Inland Steel Products, helping offset Winter expenses while decluttering your home.
- Supporting Local Economies: Metal recycling plays an important role in supporting jobs and local industry. Recycling with Inland Steel Products helps strengthen communities across the prairies.
Inland Steel Products has been recycling metal in the prairies for over 55 years. Our modern facilities across Western Canada make it easy to recycle scrap metal responsibly and get paid.
With locations in Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Swift Current, Lloydminster, Bonnyville, and Moose Jaw make scrap metal recycling convenient no matter where you’re located in the prairies.
Top Household Items You Can Recycle for Cash
Many homes contain more recyclable metal than people realize. Inland Steel Products accepts a wide range of household metal items, including:
- Kitchen Items: Stainless steel appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, and stoves, along with aluminum cookware, utensils, sinks, and faucets
- Plumbing Materials: Copper piping, fittings, brass valves, fixtures, and water heaters
- Outdoor and Seasonal Items: BBQs, metal patio furniture, fencing, garden tools, metal planters, trampoline frames, irrigation pipe, and Christmas lights
- Automotive Components: Engines, alternators, bumpers, brake drums, exhaust systems, mufflers, radiators, rims, transmissions, batteries, and catalytic converters
- Metal Building Materials: Steel beams, plate steel, pipe, siding, soffits, flashing, I-beams
- Garage and Workshop Items: Power tools, hand tools, lawn mowers, and metal storage cabinets
- Home and Office Items: Metal furniture frames, bed frames, washers, dryers, and insulated copper wire
For a full list of accepted materials, visit the What We Buy page.
How To Increase Your Metal Recycling Returns
If you’re looking to maximize the value of your scrap metal, a few simple steps can make a difference:
- Sort Metals Before Drop-Off: Different metals are priced differently. Separating ferrous metals from non-ferrous metals helps ensure you receive full value. A magnet test is an easy way to tell—if it sticks, it’s likely ferrous.
- Focus on Higher-Value Metals: Materials such as copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel typically offer higher returns. Keep an eye out for these metals as you clean and organize during the winter months.
- Remove Non-Metal Materials: Separating metal components from plastic, rubber, or insulation can improve the overall value of your load.
The Inland Steel Products Recycling Process
Recycling your scrap metal with Inland Steel Products is straightforward:
- Drop Off & Weigh In – Bring your scrap metal to one of our eight locations. Your vehicle is weighed on arrival.
- Unload & Sort – Unload your materials, then our team sorts and assesses your scrap by metal type and quality.
- Weigh Out & Get Paid – After unloading, your vehicle is weighed again to determine the net weight, and payment is issued on the spot by cash or cheque.
For larger volumes of scrap metal, Inland Steel Products also offers bin services to make collection and recycling easier.
With facilities in Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Swift Current, Lloydminster, Bonnyville, and Moose Jaw, Inland Steel Products provides reliable metal recycling services across the prairies throughout the Winter season.
RECYCLE YOUR SCRAP METAL FOR CASH
If you have scrap metal you’d like to recycle for cash contact our team today! We are open Monday to Friday and have eight locations across Western Canada with convenient drive-in and drop-off facilities.
