How to Recycle Titanium
Titanium scrap, including pipe, sheet, bar, and aerospace or medical offcuts. Scrap yards typically file it under 'specialty' or 'rare earth' metals alongside alloys like Monel and Inconel, and price it modestly for ordinary consumer loads rather than treating it as an automatic high-value find.
Quick answer
Titanium is recyclable, but for most people it's a low-value, assay-required specialty metal rather than a lucrative find. Ordinary yards price it around $0.35/lb and typically require the load to be analyzed and free of attachments before they'll buy it - some don't take small or mixed titanium at all. Clean, certified aerospace- or medical-grade titanium is worth much more, but that market runs through specialty metal brokers, not a household drop-off.
- Recyclable
- Yes
- Recycling code
- TI
- Typical value
- Modest for typical consumer scrap: around $0.35/lb at yards that buy it at all (July 2026), usually filed under specialty or rare-earth metals alongside Monel and Inconel. Clean, certified aerospace- or medical-grade titanium solids and turnings are worth far more, but that market runs through specialty metal brokers in bulk, not neighborhood scrap yards.
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