Scrap Yards in Virginia

Auto Recyclers LLC

1400 Sycamore Avenue

540-261-9991

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Auto Recyclers LLC is headquartered at its Buena Vista recycling center on Sycamore Avenue, with a second center in Winchester that handles auto-related materials and metals. Buena Vista takes the longer list: copper, brass, aluminum, lead, and wire of every type (insulated, coated, household, bare), plus lead, small-equipment, and rechargeable batteries. Auto parts include cores, alternators, transmissions, factory converters, and transfer cases, along with radiators, thermostats, small engines, computers, cardboard, fiber, and books. Complete cars, mattresses, household batteries, Styrofoam, garbage, and tires without aluminum rims are turned away. Old iron bathtubs are welcome at both locations, and the price paid for material changes daily.

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Elizabeth River Recycling

2649 South Military Highway

(757) 545-1500

Monday-Friday 7:30am-3:45pm, Saturday-Sunday closed

Licensed auto recycler (VA Auto Recycler 48054) buying scrap metal and vehicles. Locally owned and operated with over 45 years serving Hampton Roads residents and businesses. Offers container services and metal purchasing for individuals and organizations.

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Berry Iron and Metal

325 Whitetop Road

Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, Saturday-Sunday closed

Metal recycler and demolition service paying top dollar for scrap metal, copper, vehicles, farm equipment, and aluminum cans. Offers metal recycling, demolition, rolloff containers, equipment removal, and automotive baling.

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Agee's New & Used Auto Parts

1450 Radford Rd.

540-382-2477

M-F 8:00-5:00

Agee's operates a 27-acre automotive recycling facility with inventory for late-model cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs. They stock new aftermarket parts, quality-tested recycled OEM parts, and used tires. The facility purchases wrecked and salvage vehicles for parting out and recycling.

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Belvoir Salvage

11354 Sperryville Pike

703-819-8343

Free junk vehicle removal anchors Belvoir Salvage, a family-owned and operated yard at 11354 Sperryville Pike in Culpeper with more than three decades in the recycling industry. Cars, trucks, farm equipment, construction machinery, trailers, and small metal sheds are hauled off, and vehicles without titles are accepted. Every vehicle is reported to the DMV, and a valid ID is required at pickup. The sedans, coupes, pickups, big trucks, and vans cycling through the yard supply the used parts inventory. Belvoir also recycles lead-acid batteries, catalytic converters, safes, tools, and siding, serves Northern and Central Virginia, and is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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AMA Recycling

1692 Halifax Rd

434-791-1071

AMA Recycling on Halifax Road in Danville buys junk cars and scrap metal for cash. The full-service yard also offers container service and sells used auto parts.

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Fairfax City Hall Food Scrap Composting Center

10455 Armstrong St

(703) 385-7837

City food scrap drop-off next to the community garden on the west side of Fairfax City Hall. Check accepted materials on the city site.

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Belman Road Convenience Center

1200 Belman Road

540-658-5279

Mon-Fri 8am-4pm; Sat-Sun 8am-3pm

Belman Road Convenience Center is the R-Board drop-off site at 1200 Belman Road for City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County residents, who recycle here free. Single-stream bins take plastic bottles and jugs #1 and #2, aluminum and steel cans, glass bottles and jars, paper, flattened cardboard, and food and beverage cartons. The site also collects scrap metal, appliances, small engines, rechargeable and automotive batteries, cooking oil, plastic bags, and textiles including clothing, shoes, and suitcases. Motor oil, transmission fluid, and antifreeze are capped at five gallons each per resident per day. Electronics are limited to cell phones, computer towers, tablets, laptops, and printers, with no TVs or CRT monitors. Latex paint and mattresses go to the Regional Landfill instead. Yard waste is grass, leaves, brush, and limbs up to four inches thick and eight feet long.

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M & C Metals

44 Synan Rd

540-373-2844

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Sunday Closed

M & C Metals buys scrap metal at 44 Synan Road in Fredericksburg and serves residential, commercial, industrial, and retail customers. The yard takes aluminum, copper, stainless steel, steel, brass, and lead, and it keeps weekday hours plus a Saturday morning shift. It is closed Sundays and major holidays. Area businesses and construction sites get recycling containers, trailers, and roll-off boxes in 20, 30, and 40 cubic yard sizes, along with onsite pickup of scrap. The company has specialized in scrap metal sales and service for several years.

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Summit Recycling LLC

1123 Summit St

540-373-5182

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Sunday Closed

Summit Recycling is a veteran-owned scrap yard in the Fredericksburg Industrial Park near the Livestock Exchange, owned since 1997 by retired Marine Ed Nimeth. Sellers weigh nonferrous metal on a 5-foot platform scale and drive onto a truck scale with ferrous or large loads, with payment by cash or check on the spot and a valid photo ID required. The yard buys aluminum, brass, copper, lead, and steel, prices catalytic converters individually, and sends a rollback truck for scrap vehicles within 20 miles. Roll-off containers for scrap collection are placed at customers' locations.

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Old Dominion Recycling

1618 W Pembroke Ave

757-723-0757

Family-owned scrap metal recycler operating since 1947 in Hampton. Accepts ferrous and nonferrous metals from individuals, organizations, and businesses in any quantity. Offers top cash prices paid for all scrap metal.

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Public Scrap Inc

2050 W Pembroke Ave

(757) 250-2804

Mon-Fri 8:00 am-3:30 pm, Sat 8:00 am-12:00 pm, Sun closed

Public Scrap Inc buys scrap metal and whole vehicles in Hampton and the surrounding area. The company is family-owned, veteran-owned, and woman-owned, has operated since 2002, and has a bilingual staff that speaks English and Spanish. It posts per-pound prices for steel, stainless, aluminum, copper, brass, lead, radiators, batteries, and wire, and gives bulk discounts, same-day service, and free next-day estimates. Customers also rent 20, 30, and 40 yard roll-off boxes with free local drop-off and pick-up. The company does metal fabrication and handles catalytic converters. It refuses asphalt, concrete debris, dirt, trash, free-flowing liquids, chemicals, flammables, radioactive and medical infectious material, and pressurized cylinders that have not been vented. Hours run Monday through Friday until 3:30 p.m. and Saturday until noon.

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Virginia Scrap

2405 James Madison Hwy

571.261.2525

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm, Saturday 8:30am to 1:00pm

Virginia Scrap runs a working metal yard in Haymarket on James Madison Highway, with a second yard in Leesburg. It buys copper, brass, aluminum, lead, stainless steel, and steel in forms from insulated wire and radiators to auto batteries, water heaters, rebar, and structural steel, and it takes electric motors, alternators, starters, and sealed units for their copper content. HVAC, plumbing, repair, and body-shop crews drive in to sell. Large volumes move through roll-off containers placed on the customer's property, from one box to twenty, with free pickup offered by call. Commercial and industrial accounts also get mobile pickup. Hours run Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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ABC Recycling

500 Main Street

(434) 676-9222

Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

ABC Recycling buys and processes scrap metal at competitive prices. The Kenbridge location serves customers from Virginia and surrounding states including North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

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Global Refining Group

618 Main Street

(877) 257-1404

Monday-Friday 8:30 AM-5:00 PM

Global Refining Group processes catalytic converters and recovers precious metals using a modern enclosed system. The company partners with suppliers to extract and refine platinum group metals from spent catalytic converters.

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Accurate Junk Car Removal

6269 Caledon Rd

540-999-6565

Monday-Sunday 8am-7pm

Accurate Junk Car Removal is an auto wrecking and recycling company based in King George, buying scrap and salvage cars, trucks, forklifts and trailers in any condition. It pays cash on pickup and offers same day towing across the surrounding region.

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Leesburg Liberty Street Food Scrap Drop-Off

204 Liberty St SW

Town of Leesburg free 24-hour residential food scrap drop-off at Liberty Street parking lot. Check accepted materials on the town site.

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Virginia Scrap

229 Depot Ct SE

571.261.2525

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm, Saturday 8:30am to 1:00pm

Virginia Scrap runs a full-service, working metal recycling yard on Depot Court in Leesburg, with a second yard in Haymarket. The yard buys aluminum, brass, copper, lead, stainless steel, and steel in forms that run from insulated aluminum wire, aluminum wheels, and copper tubing to auto batteries, cast iron, water heaters, and rebar, plus copper-bearing items such as electric motors, alternators, and starters. Drive-in facilities serve HVAC, plumbing, and body shop contractors, and household scrap is welcome. Roll-off containers go to job sites one at a time or twenty at a time, and free pickup is available by arrangement. Steel containers are priced by material type, travel distance, and market conditions. Construction debris containers carry one set price covering delivery, pickup, and disposal of the first 3 tons.

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Foss Recycling - Lynchburg

2530 Fairview Avenue

(434) 363-4187

Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm, Sunday Closed

Foss Recycling Lynchburg accepts scrap metal including aluminum, copper, brass, ferrous metals, batteries, radiators, and stainless steel. The facility provides same-day payment, container drop-off services, metal brokerage, crushing, and transportation operations serving both individuals and businesses.

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Meeks Recycling

1331 Virginia Ave

276-656-1018

Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Meeks Recycling purchases junk vehicles, scrap metal, and appliances for recycling. The facility includes a self-service pick-and-pull yard where customers can locate and remove used auto parts. They also provide roll-off dumpster rental services.

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R & R Recycling

1055 Industrial Park Drive

(540) 947-5003

R & R Recycling has served the Roanoke area for over 30 years from their Montvale location. They accept catalytic converters, copper, truck wheels, and other scrap metals, paying cash on the spot. The company also offers pickup services for commercial and residential loads of 10,000 pounds or more.

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Gutterman Iron & Metal Corporation

706 May Ave

757-627-1095

Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed

Gutterman Iron & Metal Corporation is a Norfolk, Virginia scrap metal recycler that has operated for over 95 years. It buys steel, copper, brass, and aluminum from individuals and large commercial customers, and offers hauling and on-site loading equipment.

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Orange Recycling

19087 Lahore Rd

540-847-5865

Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Orange Recycling buys scrap metal and unwanted vehicles at 19087 Lahore Road in Orange, Virginia. The yard takes washers, dryers, metal bathtubs, rusted metal, cars, aluminum, copper, insulated copper, brass, radiators, rims, and electric motors, and it buys almost all metals. Customers also pull their own parts off vehicles in the yard. They bring their own tools and remove the parts themselves, which keeps labor out of the part price. The yard opens Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm and closes on weekends.

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Bee Green Recycling

3609 Nine Mile Rd

804-912-2498

Mon-Fri 7am-4:30pm; Sat 7am-12pm

Bee Green Recycling buys scrap metal inside an enclosed drive-through building at 3609 Nine Mile Road in Richmond, so unloading and payment happen out of the weather. Family owned since 2015, it calls itself Central Virginia's only enclosed scrap facility. A visit starts on the scale: the car is weighed with the load, staff help sort the metal, and a second weigh-out sets the payout. Most sellers scan the receipt at the on-site ATM and leave with cash. The buy list runs from bare bright copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel to cast iron, catalytic converters, car motors, alternators, starters, transmissions, radiators, appliances, transformers, electric motors, and computer towers. Lead, radioactive metals, items holding liquids or chemicals, and complete vehicles are refused. The yard records ID and license plate on every check-in.

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Nott Recycling

5317 Midlothian Turnpike

(804) 232-9882

Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM, Saturday 8 AM to 12 PM

Nott Recycling is a fourth-generation family-owned metal recycling center in Richmond. The yard pays cash for commercial and residential scrap metals and operates a truck scale for efficient processing. Cylinders, canisters, and tanks must be cut into two pieces before acceptance.

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M & M Service & Salvage Yard, Inc.

229 M and M Road

434-985-2559

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

M & M Service & Salvage Yard has operated on M and M Road in Ruckersville since 1975. It buys wrecked and junk vehicles, farm equipment, and commercial scrap metal, and it posts the current per-hundred-pound rate for scrap metal and vehicles on its homepage with an update date. The yard also sells parts and vehicles. An online part search runs in English and Spanish, and the inventory includes new take-off parts from IIHS crash-test vehicles with only a few hundred miles of use. Used cars, trucks, commercial vehicles, and school buses are sold alongside them. The office keeps weekday hours, Monday through Friday.

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Recycle Management - Staunton

1215 Montgomery Ave

(540) 885-1569

Recycle Management's Staunton yard on Montgomery Avenue is open to the public and buys ferrous and non-ferrous scrap from individuals, farms, businesses and municipalities across Staunton and Augusta County. The yard runs a 70-foot truck scale, a wheel loader, multiple platform scales for non-ferrous metal, and on-site shearing and baling, and staff screen material with handheld radiation detectors. It also buys scrap vehicles, with on-site depollution systems that include refrigerant removal, arranges metal roll-off containers, and sells propane. Local 4-H and FFA students weigh on the scales free of charge. Buying prices are quoted by phone, and final grading follows inspection.

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Auto Recyclers LLC

685 North Loudoun

540-545-4197

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Auto Recyclers LLC buys metals and automobile cores at its Winchester store on North Loudoun, one of two recycling centers the company runs. Headquarters and the larger intake sit in Buena Vista, where paper, cardboard, computers, and plastic also come in. The Winchester store takes auto-related materials and metals: alternators, transmissions, transfer cases, factory converters, small engines, radiators, and copper, brass, aluminum, lead, and wire of every type. Old iron bathtubs are accepted at both locations. The company refuses complete cars, tires unless they are still on aluminum rims, mattresses, Styrofoam, garbage, and household batteries. Prices paid change daily.

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Hub Scrap Metals LLC

207 Ebert Rd

540-667-6000

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Hub Scrap Metals runs its headquarters and shredder at 207 Ebert Road in Winchester, one of two yards alongside a second site in Hagerstown, Maryland. Founded in 2008, the company calls itself the largest scrap metal processor in Northern Virginia. The Winchester yard buys ferrous and non-ferrous metal from walk-in customers and commercial accounts, weighing loads on certified scales: copper, insulated wire, brass, aluminum, stainless steel, electric motors, radiators, lead, batteries, steel, cast iron, rebar, appliances, farm and heavy equipment, motor blocks, and cars. Roll-off containers, on-site reclamation crews, industrial demolition, and railcar recycling round out the operation. The Hagerstown yard refuses vehicles and non-ferrous metals.

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Recycle Management Woodstock Scrap Yard

18807 Old Valley Pike

(540) 732-9253

Recycle Management opened its Woodstock yard on Old Valley Pike as its newest location, serving Shenandoah County from Strasburg to New Market. The yard buys ferrous and non-ferrous scrap from individuals, farms, businesses and municipalities, weighs loads on a 70-foot truck scale with extra platform scales for non-ferrous metals, and moves material with a 34-ton material handler, wheel loaders and forklifts. Shearing and baling happen on site. Scrap vehicles are bought and depolluted on site, including refrigerant removal, and the yard arranges metal roll-off containers and sells propane. A zero-discharge stormwater system captures 100 percent of rainfall on the property and was designed for the largest floods Shenandoah County has recorded.

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