Alter Metal Recycling

About Alter Metal Recycling

Mason City, 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 a website 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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