Where to cash in scrap

I can only speak with any authority about places I've personally gone to to cash in scrap I've collected.

I started this when I went to Baltimore to take care of my father, who was dying of cancer.

I've have a CDL license for 25 years and drove a Roll Off Truck in 2001, this is the kind of truck that looks like a dump truck, but the bed (dumpster) is rolled off the truck when empty and hoisted back on the truck when full.

In 2001 China was buying up all the scrap it could find- the Yangtze river had frozen over, preventing their river barges from delivering iron ore from the mines to the steel plants... remember China is one of the world's fastest growing capitalist (sorta) economies, and one out of every 4 human beings IS a Chinese!

In Baltimore I took scrap metal to:

Cambridge Iron & Metal
Cambridge Iron & Metal Co, Inc
901 South Kresson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21224
(410) 327-7867
(800) 245-IRON
http://www.cambridgeiron.com/

Baltimore Scrap
3100 Weedon Ave
Baltimore, MD 21226
(410) 355-4455
http://www.baltimorescrap.com/

I used to get FREE aluminum out of dumpsters (with permission) from:

Renewal by Andersen Windows
8250 Preston Ct
Jessup, MD 20794
(866) 612-4984

Next Day Blinds Factory
also on Preston Ct
Jessup MD
I'm not going to list their phone #
because they no longer want people
jumping in their dumpster...

There were actually fights breaking
out, scrapers fist fighting each other
right there in the parking lot:
this is headache the insurance people
don't want!

I took aluminum to:

Decker Brothers Recycling
9385 Washington Blvd N
Laurel, MD 20723
Local: 301-497-0391

Now that I live in Frederick Maryland I take aluminum to:

Reliable Recycling
502 N East St
Frederick, MD 21701
(301) 663-4482
http://www.reliablerecyclingcenter.com/

The people that run Reliable are good people... I can't say enough good things about them.

Rule of Thumb:

If you go everyday to these recycling places...
and you don't try to cheat them, or claim that what's in your truck is good stuff when it's actually
the lower paying material...

It's my experience that they'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you'll get paid top dollar.

Again, the only thing I can speak to is my own personal experience.