Lawrenceville, Georgia · Open to the public

Scrap MetalTurned Into Cash

United Recycling buys all ferrous and non-ferrous metals — from a truckload of aluminum cans to a plant full of switch gear. We pay more than the local yards, and we pay you the same day.

Call or text 470-655-9608 Ask for Gus Harvey

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Picture messages welcome — snap a photo of your load and we'll price it.

Straight from the yard

Real Loads, Real Money

These are actual loads that came across our scale in Lawrenceville. Got something that looks like this? Call or text 470-655-9608 and ask for Gus Harvey.

Bare bright copper wireBundled bare bright copper — our top-paying grade.
Insulated copper wireCoils of insulated copper wire, sorted by grade.
Brass valves & fittingsRed brass, yellow brass, valves and plumbing fittings.
Copper pipe & fittingsCopper tube, pipe and fittings out of a plumbing tear-out.
Alternators & motorsAlternators, starters and small electric motors.
Circuit boards & e-scrapBoards, power supplies and heat sinks — we grade these too.
Heavy cableHeavy gauge insulated cable off a commercial job.
Insulated wireBlack jacketed wire, ready for the scale.

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Who we are

A Licensed & Bonded Georgia Scrap Yard

United Recycling Scrap Metals is a licensed and bonded metal recycler on Hurricane Shoals Road in Lawrenceville. We buy from homeowners pulling in with a trunk full of cans and from plant managers decommissioning an entire line — and everything in between.

If it's metal, we want it. Copper, brass, aluminum, stainless, steel of any grade, electric motors, transformers, switch gear, machinery working or damaged, appliances, ice boxes, insulated wire, and the specialty material most yards turn away.

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Scrap metal recycling yard with material handler sorting ferrous and non-ferrous piles

What we buy

All Ferrous & Non-Ferrous Metals

Here's the short version. If you don't see your material, call anyway — we buy a lot of things other yards won't touch.

Ferrous Metals

Steel — any grade
Structural steel & beams
Cast iron
Machinery — working or damaged
Appliances & ice boxes
Pipe, fittings & valves
Stainless containers, tanks & vats
Company vehicles & equipment

Non-Ferrous Metals

Copper
Brass
Aluminum
Aluminum cans
Stainless steel
Lead
Nickel & cobalt
Tantalum
High temp alloys
Carbide & carbide sludge
Radiators
Precious metals

Electrical & Plant Equipment

Electric equipment & switch gear
MCCs, breakers & panels
Disconnects
Electric motors
Transformers
Electrical & insulated wire
Heat exchangers
Chillers

Specialty & Hard-to-Place

M.R.I. magnets
X-ray film
Litho film negatives
Surplus electrical inventory

Full Material List

Why United Recycling

Three Reasons People Drive Past Other Yards

We Pay More

We pay more than local scrap yards. Bring us a ticket from another yard and we'll beat it.

Licensed & Bonded

A licensed and bonded Georgia company — paperwork done right, every load.

Text Us a Photo

Text or picture-message your pile to 470-655-9608 and get a number back.

Ferrous & non-ferrous

Millions Of Pounds, One Load At A Time

Whether it's a pickup bed of aluminum cans or a decommissioned production line, it comes across the same scale and gets graded the same honest way.

Roll-off truck setting down an open container for a scrap metal job site

For business

Dumpsters, Roll-Offs & Full Demolition

Plant managers and business owners: we don't just buy the metal, we come get it. United Recycling supplies dumpsters and roll-off containers, and we do large-scale commercial demolition — chemical plants, power plants, refineries, mills, hospitals, campuses and malls.

One call handles the container, the labor, the haul-off and the check. No coordinating three vendors and hoping the scrap value doesn't disappear into someone else's invoice.

Commercial Accounts Demolition Services

Open to the public

Get Paid For Your Scrap Today

Call or text 470-655-9608 and ask for Gus Harvey. Send a picture of what you've got, or pull into the yard on Hurricane Shoals Road. Either way you leave with cash.

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