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Jan 12, 2011 19:17:29 GMT
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I'm not sure if this has been asked before - if so I'm sorry, my search mojo is weak. I have 3 old car batteries, 2 normal sized ones and a massive 95 amp jobby out of an X5, and a duff old jump start pack cluttering up my garage, is it worth taking them to the local metal processors for some beer tokens? My only experience of weighing stuff in was during the last olympics when scrap was dirt cheap, and I got £8.50 for a complete Golf engine
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Jan 12, 2011 19:19:28 GMT
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Last time I took a few batteries which was about 2-3 months ago I got £8 each.
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MrSpeedy
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Jan 12, 2011 19:21:23 GMT
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Batteries are weighing between £200-£400 per tonne, depending where you take them.
We sell ours to the travellers who come around regular for about 3 quid a piece
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Kieran
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Jan 12, 2011 19:23:08 GMT
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Just phone up your local scrap metal buyer and ask what they are paying for batteries....
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bortaf
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Jan 12, 2011 21:42:50 GMT
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bowt a fiver each (for normal 085 size) in London at the mo
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Jan 12, 2011 21:48:05 GMT
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7 quid each 'tup north
lead prices are rising at the moment, as are 'motors' (alternators, starter motors, transformers etc)
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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Batteries are weighing between £200-£400 per tonne, depending where you take them. We sell ours to the travellers who come around regular for about 3 quid a piece Be careful doing that mate, if the travellers can't give you the proper disposal paperwork for the batteries and you get caught you may well end up in trouble.
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MrSpeedy
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Jan 13, 2011 10:34:37 GMT
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Ah, but no-one knows i had them in the first place !!
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Jan 13, 2011 10:52:12 GMT
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Got £30 for 4 batteries not so long ago, two were fairly big. I think that was for 90 kg of batteries. They told me you can only do 5 a year.
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Nathan
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Batteries - worth weighing in?Nathan
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Jan 13, 2011 11:57:45 GMT
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Everyday is a school day, as I never even realised you could weigh them in and this comes from someone who is up at the Metal disposal place at least twice a month.
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Jan 13, 2011 12:04:18 GMT
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Pants, took at least 5 to the tip last year
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MrSpeedy
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Jan 13, 2011 12:42:24 GMT
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One mans muck is another....... etc etc
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bortaf
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Jan 13, 2011 14:40:29 GMT
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Batteries are weighing between £200-£400 per tonne, depending where you take them. We sell ours to the travellers who come around regular for about 3 quid a piece Be careful doing that mate, if the travellers can't give you the proper disposal paperwork for the batteries and you get caught you may well end up in trouble. why ? it's the waist carryer that needs to have a liecence not you, cars yes cos they are registerd to somone but not scrap if you get pulled NEVER say anything other than you are clearing out your own scrap! you don't need a waist carryers liesence for your own scrap but you do if 'it's somone elses
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R.I.P photobucket
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Jan 13, 2011 14:53:03 GMT
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DUmper truck came past my flat window the other day, full of batterys (being on the 2nd floor i can see in the back). Must have been a few quids worth there!
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Jan 13, 2011 15:28:13 GMT
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some regulation or another. Know of a few cases where people have paid a disposal company to remove waste paperwork fro the office, its ended up fly tipped and the environmental enforcement officer just looks at the name on the envelopes, comes a calling with a £1500 fine. "I paid someone to take that away and shred and pulp it" carries no weight with them or the court unless you have paperwork from the waste removal company to say they are licenced. I am about 75% sure this applies to non-business waste users as well.
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Jan 13, 2011 15:37:51 GMT
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Yeah, but we don't tend to have our name and address on our batteries! ;D ;D
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Jan 13, 2011 15:39:19 GMT
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Batteries are weighing between £200-£400 per tonne, depending where you take them. We sell ours to the travellers who come around regular for about 3 quid a piece Be careful doing that mate, if the travellers can't give you the proper disposal paperwork for the batteries and you get caught you may well end up in trouble. It's nice that you're warning him, but if the travellers are paying for it, then surely that's just like selling something to anyone at all? I sell you a wheel. You hand me cash. You then throw the wheel over a hedge 5 miles away. Just an example. travellers aren't going to give you money for something to then just dump it at the side of the road anyway... Also, curse word. I chucked 5 away last month at the tip.
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Jan 13, 2011 18:54:13 GMT
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As said already, well worth doing. I had a tank of fuel out of the last lot I weighed in.
'where there's muck there's brass' ;D
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Jan 13, 2011 19:09:19 GMT
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Batteries are weighing between £200-£400 per tonne, depending where you take them. We sell ours to the travellers who come around regular for about 3 quid a piece Be careful doing that mate, if the travellers can't give you the proper disposal paperwork for the batteries and you get caught you may well end up in trouble. If the travellers have given him cold hard cash, you can be sure they'll sell them to a scrappie and not dump them. Pants, took at least 5 to the tip last year If it makes you feel better, the guys at the tip were probably really glad you visited...
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MrSpeedy
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Jan 13, 2011 20:25:46 GMT
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As said above, not my problem because it's not my property anymore and i'm not moving them. Technically they need a waste carriers license due to the transportation of hazardous waste act, but then again, technically, they also need legal tyres, insurance, driving licenses, road fund, DERV in the tank etc etc etc.
The onus is also on the scrap yard as much as anyone to ask for a license. I've had trouble in the past turning up in a signwritten works van and been turned away. Much easier to be someone elses problem. (I get through a few dozen batteries a year !)
These days, ANY metal waste is worth something (most swarf being the exception) so don't give anything away unless you like donating cash. I always get at least a pints worth off them for anything they take. They know it's worth it or they wouldn't pay it !
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