Scrap ferrous metal to sell?
Sims recycles a wide range of surplus and waste iron and steel. Click for details.
We buy non ferrous scrap metal
Sims pays competitive prices for non ferrous metal such as aluminium, copper and brass. Find out more...
Welcome to the UK arm of Sims Metal Management, the world's largest metals recycler.
Based on 35 recycling sites throughout the UK we recover end of life and abandoned scrap cars, consumer goods, surplus metal from manufacturing processes and other sources of ferrous and non ferrous scrap metal.
Sims Metal Management then recycles recovered metals, plastics and other materials into products such as fragmented furnace feed for steel works and high grade copper, aluminium and brass for smelting and re-use in manufacturing.
Sims Metal Management works to high environmental and health and safety standards, seeking to exceed legislation and guidelines wherever practicable.
Use our metal recycling service finder to locate your nearest scrap metals trader or scrap metal merchant service or contact us to enquire about recycling services.
Find your nearest scrap metal recycling centre
With 35 scrap metal dealers in England and Wales, Sims Metal Management offers national coverage:
Wanted - scrap metal
Sims Metal Management pays competitive prices for a wide range of scrap metal including:
We buy scrap cars
Sims Metal Management recycles around 400,000 scrap cars each year in the UK.
We pay competitive rates for scrap cars, scrap vans and other scrap vehicles. Choosing Sims Metal Management means that your car will be disposed of in accordance with UK and EU legislation. We also provide an abandoned cars service for local authorities.
You can take your car to 23 Sims Metal Management UK sites
View an interactive animation on how we depollute scrap vehicles.
Industrial dismantling
15 of Sims Metal Management's scrap metal dealers offer local factory clearance services, recycling plant and machinery at competitive prices.
Halesowen scrap metal merchants have specialist equipment and expertise in providing national large scale dismantling of complex infrastructure such as newspaper publishing plant, manufacturing facilities and telephone exchanges.
All labour, lifting and processing equipment and transport are provided.
Recycle right.
Recycle now.
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0845 270 2485
New non ferrous yard
Maesglas Non Ferrous Centre in Newport, South Wales, is now open for non ferrous trade.
Electronics recycling
Over 20 Sims Metal Management scrap yards accept WEEE on behalf of our electronics recycling division, Sims Recycling Solutions. Visit the Sims Recycling Solutions website for more information.
Global recycling locations
Sims Metal Management has 200 metals recycling operations worldwide