Scrap Yards in West Virginia

10 locations in 8 cities.

Scrap yards and metal recyclers that buy or accept copper, aluminum, steel, brass, and other metals. Hours, fees, and accepted items change, so confirm with the facility before you go.

Scrap Yards by city

Charleston Area Metal Recycling

610 48th St SE

(304) 699-1261

Charleston Area Metal Recycling runs a 44,000 square foot indoor scrap yard in Kanawha City and bills it as West Virginia's only indoor yard. Dump trailers under 30 feet unload inside, and a 70 foot truck scale weighs every load. The yard buys aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, lead-acid car batteries, electric motors, catalytic converters, radiators, and factory scrap, plus steel in prepared #1 HMS, auto cast, and shredder grades. Roll-off containers, a pick-up truck service, demolition, and cleanup help serve industrial and commercial customers. Scrap vehicles must arrive with the gas tank removed or punctured and with the frame, engine, and transmission intact. The yard refuses tires, fluids, refrigerators and air conditioners with Freon, gas cylinders, and electric or hybrid vehicles and batteries.

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Elkins Metal Recycling

1404 15th Street

(304) 636-3456

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM; Saturday and Sunday closed

Elkins Metal Recycling buys scrap metal at 1404 15th Street in Elkins and pays up to $250 in cash for qualifying loads. The yard requires check-in at the office window before the scale, accepts lead-acid batteries only, and no longer takes vehicles driven onto the property.

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3 Rivers Iron & Metal

500 Virginia Avenue

(304) 366-8099

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM; Saturday 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

3 Rivers Iron & Metal buys ferrous and non-ferrous scrap at 500 Virginia Avenue in Fairmont. The yard posts current scrap prices, offers commercial scrap containers, and requires batteries removed before arrival. Driven-in scrap vehicles are no longer purchased; trailered vehicles must meet posted gas-tank rules.

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ScrapItWV

517 Hoglick Hollow Road

304-366-2326

Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5PM, Sat 8:30AM-Noon

Scrap It WV is a locally owned scrap metal and unwanted vehicle buyer serving north central West Virginia. Vehicles are weighed on a certified 65-foot scale and the title must be surrendered at time of sale; the yard also accepts ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

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SOS Salvage

2816 Grafton Road

304-363-4794

Mon-Wed 9AM-4PM, Thu Closed, Fri 9AM-4PM, Sat-Sun Closed

SOS Salvage has bought scrap metal and vehicles in Fairmont since 1980, and owners Dale and Cathy Shaffer run the yard on Grafton Road. It pays cash immediately for ferrous metal such as iron and tin, and for aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, radiators, batteries, electric motors, starters, alternators, and compressors. A posted price list sets separate rates for clean and dirty material, and the yard turns away aluminum cans, plastic dishwashers, microwaves, and appliances. Roll-off containers in 20 and 30 yard sizes and self-dumping forklift dumpsters for metal only go out to commercial customers around Fairmont for construction, demolition, and storm cleanup jobs, for a fee.

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Taylor Iron & Metal

10 3rd Ave

(304) 525-6390

Taylor Iron & Metal has run as a family-owned scrap yard and auto parts business on Third Avenue in Huntington since the 1950s. State-certified scales set the weights, the scales close at 4:30 on weekdays and 11:30 on Saturday mornings, and the yard shuts for lunch Monday through Friday. Iron, steel, brass, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, and high-temperature alloys are bought, along with computer boards, towers, laptops, cell phones, hard drives, and game consoles. A container set out at a customer's site is picked up free once it is full. Propane, freon, oxygen, and other sealed tanks, kegs, capacitors, and windows with glass are refused, and lithium-ion batteries are no longer taken.

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Barker's Junk Co., Inc.

2290 Robert C Byrd Drive

304-252-0769

Barker's Junk Co. is a family owned scrap metal recycling business near Beckley started in the early 1950s by Fred Barker, serving southern West Virginia. The yard buys prepared and unprepared steel, copper, and aluminum, and offers container delivery for cleanup projects.

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Eagle Auto Parts, Inc.

2744 Eagle School Road

800-261-6664

Mon-Thurs 8AM-5PM, Fri 8AM-4:30PM, Sat 8AM-12PM, Sun Closed

Eagle Auto Parts is a full-service auto salvage yard in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, started in 1978 and acquired by Conservit, Inc. in 2016. The yard was the first Certified Auto Recycler in West Virginia and sells computerized, racked used auto parts with delivery to WV, PA, MD and VA plus nationwide shipping.

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JB Recycling

255 S Plant St

304-241-1363

Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM, Sat 8AM-12PM

JB Recycling operates an indoor, covered scrapyard in Morgantown's Westover Industrial Park where customers drive in to have metal weighed and paid for on the spot. The yard also offers free junk car pickup within 15 miles and roll-off dumpster rental.

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Crow's Auto Salvage & Metal Recycling

188 Shelby Lane

304-547-0436

Mon-Fri 9AM-4:30PM

Crow's Auto Salvage and Metal Recycling is a family owned yard in Triadelphia that buys unwanted vehicles and scrap metal, including scrap iron and light iron, and posts current scrap pricing to customers.

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