scrap dealer
Buys discarded metal
A scrap dealer buys and sells discarded materials—metals, electronics, vehicles, machinery—for recycling or salvage.
The business involves sorting valuable components from waste: The scrap dealer offered fifty dollars for the old washing machine.
Also called a junk dealer or scrap merchant.
- recyclerOne who processes reusables
- metal recyclingReprocessing discarded alloys
- junkmanSeller of salvaged items
- scrapmanOne who trades salvage
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
trading · waste picker · collector · rag-and-bone man · negotiating · totter · copper · aluminum · steel · pricing · circular economy · weighing scales · weigh station · iron · brass · scales · metal · upcycling
- dealers
- recyclerscomposters, can crusher, recycling centers
- salvagersauto wrecker, wrecker, reclaimer
- scrap recyclingscrapyards, junkyard, junk yards, salvage yard, shredder
- sanitation jobssanitation worker, garbage collector, refuse collector, trash collector, waste collector
- recycling collectorsbin collector