What is the Best Skip Hire Alternative for Scrap Metal?

Finding the best way to dispose of your leftover scrap metal is important. Many tradespeople opt for skip hire, but is this always the most efficient or cost-effective option? If not, what is the best skip hire alternative?

It all depends on the type, quantity and properties of your scrap metal load. In this guide, we break down the key questions surrounding skip hire VS our eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative – scrap metal recycling – to help you maximise your returns.

1. Mixed or Pure Scrap Metal?

First, evaluate your scrap metal load. Is it mixed, contaminated waste or is it all one type (e.g. steel) or category (e.g. non-ferrous metal) of scrap metal? The former is better suited to general skip hire, while the latter is better suited to a scrap metal dealer’s services.

Visiting a scrap metal dealer, such as Kas Metal Trading, ensures you receive payment for your pure metal and you don’t pay for skip disposal just to miss out on the value of what you’re throwing away. This offers a more cost-effective and efficient way to make a profit on high-value scrap in comparison to general skip hire, which instead provides a convenient way to get rid of mixed, non-recyclable materials.

2. How Much Scrap Metal Do You Have?

When opting for skip hire, ensuring you have enough scrap to fill it up adequately is important. Choose a skip too small and you’ll have an overflow of waste, choose one that’s too big and you’ve wasted your money.

Take the guesswork out of your disposal with our scrap metal recycling services. We accept scrap metal of any quality or quantity. All we ask is that you separate your metal into ferrous and non-ferrous piles, and remove any non-metal attachments, before your visit. Bonus points if you categorise your non-ferrous scrap by value! Not only will this make your weigh-in quicker, but it will also maximise the value of your scrap.

3. Can Your Scrap Metal Be Recycled?

While general waste skips are ideal for mixed metals, this often means recyclable materials end up in landfills – adding landfill tax charges to your final bill and significantly impacting the environment. Hindering the progress the UK wants to make towards a circular economy, and more importantly, releasing greenhouse gases, contaminating groundwater and destroying the habitats of local wildlife.

Our scrap metal recycling services prioritise the environment, ensuring all recyclable metals are reused again and again.

4. Where Could You Leave Your Skip?

If you’re planning to leave your skip on a public road, unless your chosen skip hire company has already sorted it, you will need to pay for a license by contacting your local council.

Whereas, you won’t need one to sell scrap metal to us – saving you the time, hassle and extra cost.

5. How Long Do You Have?

If you’re running out of site storage, or you have a deadline to get rid of your waste by, skip collection may not be the best choice. Purely due to the fact the process can take up to five working days from your initial collection request (depending on the provider).

Speed things up with our reliable scrap metal buying services. With over 15 years of experience and the latest in metal analysis systems, our expert team can weigh, grade and pay you for your scrap the same-day (as long as you visit us before 4pm). If you can’t make it for that time, we’ll simply pay you the following day.

Visit Our Atherton Scrap Yard Today

If you need a skip hire alternative, our scrap metal recycling services offer a quick, cost-effective and environmentally responsible method. Based in Atherton, our local scrap yard is well-positioned to serve Manchester, Lancashire and surrounding areas. We can guarantee…

• Competitive scrap metal prices, always based on the global benchmark set by the London Metal Exchange (LME).
• A professional, straightforward service with a same-day turnaround and payment before 4pm.
• A wide range of payment options, including bank transfers, cheques or our pre-paid card (can be uploaded with funds and used like a debit card).

Visit us today to turn your waste into profit, get rid of your scrap sustainably and receive a same-day payment for your metal. 

Unit J, Coal Pit Ln, Atherton, Manchester M46 0RY