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Ferrous & non-ferrous · EA upper-tier carrier · Nationwide

Every tonne accounted for.

We buy, collect and process scrap metal for UK mills, foundries and refiners. Weighed on a calibrated bridge, graded in front of you, paid by BACS the same working day.

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Free collection On qualifying loads UK-wide
Weighbridge Trading Standards calibrated
Full paperwork Waste transfer notes issued
Any volume One skip to full artic loads

The yard board

Priced by grade, not by guess

Scrap is worth what it actually is. We grade to standard trade codes in front of you and price against the LME, so the figure on your ticket is one you can check.

Indicative buying prices Updated weekly
Indicative scrap metal buying prices per tonne
Grade Trade code Typical form £ / tonne 7 day
Bright copper wire Barley Bare, unalloyed, 16 SWG and heavier 6,940 ▲ 1.4%
Copper No. 1 Berry Clean tube, busbar, clippings 6,580 ▲ 0.9%
Copper No. 2 Birch / Cliff Soldered, painted or tinned 6,120 ▼ 0.3%
Yellow brass Honey Fittings, valves, sheet offcuts 3,880 ▲ 0.6%
Alloy wheels Troma Cast alloy, tyres and weights off 1,340 ▲ 2.1%
Cast aluminium Tense Engine blocks, gearbox housings 985 ▼ 0.8%
Stainless 304 18/8 Sheet, tank, pipe, catering plant 1,065 ▲ 0.4%
Soft lead Racks Roofing sheet, flashing, weights 1,470 ▲ 0.2%
Heavy melting steel HMS 1 6 mm and over, cut to 1.5 m 212 ▼ 1.1%

Indicative only. Your firm price is fixed at the weighbridge after grading, with any deduction for attachments, moisture or non-metallics itemised on the ticket.
Payment is by BACS to a named account. We cannot pay cash — the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 prohibits it.

What we buy

Sorted separately, priced separately

A mixed load gets paid at the lowest grade in it. We separate on arrival and pay each stream at its own price — the sorting is on us.

Barley · Berry · Birch/Cliff

Copper

We buy bright wire, tube, busbar and windings, and granulate insulated cable in house. Copper carries the widest spread between grades of any metal…

Troma · Tense · Taint/Tabor

Aluminium

Extrusion, sheet, alloy wheels, castings, UBC bales and machine shop turnings. Light, high volume, and heavily affected by attachments and coatings.

Honey · Ebony · Ocean

Brass & bronze

Plumbing fittings, valve bodies, radiator ends, gunmetal and lathe borings. Dense, valuable, and often mistaken for bronze.

HMS 1 · HMS 2 · Frag

Steel & iron

Structural offcuts, plate, cast iron, rebar and end-of-life plant, with shearing and baling on site. Low value per tonne, high value in volume.

304 · 316 · 430

Stainless

Grade tested by handheld XRF before pricing. Catering, brewing, chemical and fabrication scrap, where the difference between 304 and 316 is worth real money.

Racks · Zinc die-cast

Lead & zinc

Roofing lead, flashing, balance weights and die-cast zinc, handled under permit. Dense, valuable and subject to particular care over provenance.

How it works

Booking to payment in five moves

The order matters — each step produces the document the next one depends on.

Step 01

Book

Tell us the metal, rough tonnage and site access. You get a slot and an indicative price within two hours.

Step 02

Collect

Our own hiab, skip or roll-on vehicle arrives with containers sized to the job. Site left swept.

Step 03

Weigh

Gross and tare taken on a calibrated bridge. The ticket is printed and sent to you before sorting begins.

Step 04

Grade

Sorted, XRF tested where it matters, deductions listed line by line. Come and watch, or watch the camera feed.

Step 05

Get paid

Self-billing invoice, waste transfer note and BACS payment to your registered account, same working day.

Compliance

Paperwork that survives an audit

Under Duty of Care, waste stays your responsibility until it reaches a properly licensed operator. Every Interscan movement is documented from your gate to the furnace.

  • Carrier

    Environment Agency upper-tier waste carrier Registration CBDU568181, registered at 941 Uxbridge Road, UB10 0NJ.

  • Licence

    Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 site licence ID checked, cashless payment, seller records retained.

  • Duty of care

    Waste transfer and consignment notes Issued on every collection and kept for the statutory period.

  • Quality

    ISO certified management system Covering all Interscan operations.

  • Reporting

    Recycled tonnage statements For your ESG, SECR and net-zero reporting.

  • Insurance

    Goods in transit and public liability cover On every load, with trained crews for live or confined sites.

Coverage

Collecting across the UK

We run from our Uxbridge head office and collect through the same regional network that moves freight for Interscan Limited. If you are near a motorway, we can reach you.

Head office

Uxbridge

Our head office and the base for London and Home Counties collections. 941 Uxbridge Road, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 0NJ.

Book a collection in Uxbridge

Greater London & M25

London

Next-day collection anywhere inside the M25, with ULEZ-compliant vehicles for central and inner-London sites.

Book a collection in London

Not on the list? Tell us the postcode — we run planned routes weekly and can usually add a stop.

Part of Interscan Limited

The trucks are already ours

Interscan Metal Recycling is a trade name of Interscan Limited, a UK road haulage and logistics company operating from Uxbridge. Your scrap moves on our own licensed, insured and tracked fleet — not on whoever happened to be available.

50+ Fleet vehicles
10+ UK locations
100+ Business clients

Ready when you are

Send a photo. Get a price.

Message a picture of the pile with a rough weight and a postcode, and we will quote against this week's board — no site visit needed to get started.

Call +44 20 8073 5000 metals@interscanltd.co.uk