Alter Metal Recycling

About Alter Metal Recycling

Council Bluffs, Iowa hosts Alter Metal Recycling, a scrap metal recycling site that serves walk-in sellers and small contractors. Listings like this exist to help sellers find a paid drop-off point for scrap material rather than burning a Saturday calling around to find one. We do not have a current accepted-materials list on file for the business's inbound intake at the time of this snapshot. Hours of operation aren't recorded. A phone line and an email contact appear in the listing, which together capture what the yard has filed with the directory about its inbound contact and posted schedule, and give sellers a working baseline for planning a visit before any drive over to the gate. Sorting at the gate moves faster when materials are pre-separated at home — ferrous in one bin, copper in another, aluminum kept clean. The yard can post the load through faster, and sellers tend to land a cleaner intake price on each category. Pre-sorted loads also avoid the wait that comes when staff have to break a mixed bin apart on site before grading and weighing the material.

Scrap Price Estimates (US Average)

Daily US average estimates updated Nov 10, 2026, not Alter Metal Recycling's own prices; call the yard for its pay rates. How we estimate prices.

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