Scrap Metal prices 2025, USA
Scrap metal purchase prices directly depends on the price of steel on international metal exchanges. Scrap buyers constantly checking prices changes and adjust scrap metal purchase prices accordingly. The price of scrap metal also depends on other factors: type of metal, quantity of scrap metal, buyer pricing, state taxes applied to such activities. In order to sell scrap metal at a high price, you should always look into the offers of several buyers and compare the proposed scrap metal purchase prices for that day. This website allows you to find out what the latest scrap metal purchase prices are in real time in different cities and different countries.
The change in scrap metal prices in the United States
Based on data provided by scraprice.com, this article reviews scrap metal price trends across various regions in the United States and the percentage changes recorded from December 2024 through February–March 2025. The data indicates that prices have steadily increased in most locations. These trends can be attributed to regional supply and demand fluctuations, transportation costs, and other market factors. Prices are listed in euros per ton (EUR/T). Regional Analysis
| Purchase price | Comments | Buyer | City |
|---|---|---|---|
0.276
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Drums and Rotors | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.249
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Clean Motor | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.245
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Unclean Motor | Chase, Michigan | |
0.24
$/kg
2025.06.14
|
2 Foot Prepared Auto / Machine Cast | Wisconsin, Fond du Lac | |
|
0.219
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Auto Cast / Rotors | New York, Buffalo | |
|
0.219
$/kg
2025.06.19
|
Auto Drums & Rotors | New York, Buffalo | |
|
0.211
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Short Steel | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.211
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Clean Auto Cast | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.211
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Complete Car | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.211
$/kg
2025.06.16
|
Scrap cast auto rotors and drums | Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights | |
|
0.211
$/kg
2025.06.14
|
3 Foot Steel | Wisconsin, Fond du Lac | |
|
0.205
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Mixed Cast | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.07.04
|
Brake / Rotors | Illinois, Chicago Heights | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Whole Car Motors | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.25
|
Sheet iron | Michigan, Detroit | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.25
|
Scrap car | Michigan, Detroit | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.25
|
Cast iron | Michigan, Detroit | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Unprepared | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.201
$/kg
2025.06.23
|
Appliances (light unprepared under 1/4 inch) | Chase, Michigan | |
|
0.19
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Short Steel / Heavy Melt / Cast Iron | New York, Buffalo | |
|
0.19
$/kg
2025.06.19
|
Short Steel/Prepared HMS | New York, Buffalo | |
|
0.19
$/kg
2025.06.15
|
Cast Iron | New York, Binghamton | |
|
0.19
$/kg
2025.06.15
|
Plate & Structural | New York, Binghamton | |
|
0.184
$/kg
2025.06.28
|
1 Cast Iron | Wisconsin, Eau Claire | |
|
0.184
$/kg
2025.06.16
|
#1 prepared scrap steel is smaller than 5 ft by 3 ft | Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights | |
|
0.184
$/kg
2025.06.16
|
#2 prepared scrap steel is smaller than 3 ft by 18 inches | Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights | |
|
0.175
$/kg
2025.06.28
|
Prepared Iron | Wisconsin, Eau Claire | |
|
0.175
$/kg
2025.06.12
|
Prepared Iron | Wisconsin, Eau Claire | |
|
0.16
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Auto Body | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.16
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Sheet Iron | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.16
$/kg
2025.06.15
|
Mixed Material Scrap | Indiana, Evansville | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.27
|
Stove Cast | Indiana, Bloomington | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.16
|
Scrap unprepared steel | Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.15
|
Light Iron & Tin | New York, Binghamton | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.14
|
Farm Machinery / Unprepared | Wisconsin, Fond du Lac | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.14
|
Sheet Iron | Wisconsin, Fond du Lac | |
|
0.15
$/kg
2025.06.14
|
Autobodies (shredder prepared) | Wisconsin, Fond du Lac | |
|
0.145
$/kg
2025.07.04
|
Sheet Iron | Illinois, Chicago Heights | |
|
0.145
$/kg
2025.07.04
|
Heavy Metal | Illinois, Chicago Heights | |
|
0.145
$/kg
2025.07.04
|
Motors | Illinois, Chicago Heights |
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