The businesses out here do not have a scrap problem in the sense of not knowing what to do with it. They have a volume problem. A transport yard replacing trailer components, a fabricator cutting plate all week, a depot stripping down equipment, all of it produces steel faster than anyone wants to think about, and the usual answer is a mixed skip.
What Wingfield businesses generate
- Transport and logistics yards. Trailer parts, axles, rims, bodywork, worn steel, batteries off the fleet.
- Fabrication and engineering sheds. Plate drops, section offcuts, laser skeletons, swarf. Worth separating stainless from mild steel here, the volumes justify two bins.
- Equipment and plant yards. End-of-life machinery, attachments, hydraulic rams, motors.
- Waste and recycling operators. Metal pulled out of mixed streams that needs a buyer.
- Electrical and mechanical contractors. Cable, motors, switchboards, compressors.
Rates
Indicative rates, the same ones on the home page. Metal markets move every week, so ring 0435 805 124 for the exact figure before you load up.
In a heavy-industrial area the steel tonnage is the obvious part and the copper is the part that gets lost. Cable, motors and busbar are worth multiples of the steel per kilo, which is the whole argument for a second container.
Access out here is easy, which helps
One practical advantage of Wingfield, Dry Creek and Cavan: the sites are built for trucks. Wide aprons, roller doors, forklifts on site. That means bigger bins, fewer collections and less time spent on each one, which is part of why rates hold up well on this side of town.
Getting set up
- Ring with the site address and what the operation generates.
- We size bins to the volume, usually more than one if grades are worth splitting.
- Collection on a schedule, because volume out here is rarely irregular.
- Weighed by grade on site every time.
- Paid by EFT to the business with the weights recorded.