Aluminium Scrap in Canberra
Looking to turn your aluminium scrap in Canberra into top dollar? Discover how sorting, cleaning, and preparing your metal can maximize your payout with ScrapX's fast, convenient on-site weighing and instant payment service.
How to Sort It, Clean It and Sell It for More
Maximize the value of your scrap aluminium with ScrapX! Simply sort your material by type, remove any easily detachable steel, glass, or rubber, and assemble your load. Once you're ready, snap a few clear photos, estimate your weight, and reach out to our expert team for a seamless pickup experience. Whether you have old window frames, alloy wheels, or leftover industrial offcuts, ScrapX makes selling your aluminium scrap in Canberra fast, transparent, and rewarding.
What Your Aluminium Scrap in Canberra Is Worth
At ScrapX, our competitive aluminium rates range from $0.20 to $3.50 per kg depending on product grade and purity. High-purity extrusions and clean window frames command premium payouts, while mixed or contaminated pieces fall on the lower end of the spectrum.
Clean extrusions, profiles and window frames
Clean, high-purity aluminium, which earns the highest rate
$1.65 – $3.50
Aluminium wheels and rims
Stripped alloy wheels free of tyres and balancing weights
$1.65 – $3.00
Cast aluminium
Solid engine blocks, machinery parts, and heavy castings
$0.95 – $2.00
Cans and domestic scrap
Household aluminium containers and domestic offcuts
$0.80 – $1.80
Irony (contaminated) aluminium
Aluminium mixed with steel, plastic, or rubber attachments
$0.20 – $0.81
Please note that scrap metal prices fluctuate regularly, so the rates listed here serve as a general guide and are subject to change without notice. For a firm quote based on your material's quality, quantity, and frequency, please contact us via email or call the phone number on our homepage.
Sort Your Aluminium for Maximum Value
Different grades of aluminium fetch different market prices. To ensure you receive the top tier payout for each piece, organize your scrap into separate categories before we arrive:
Unsure if your metal is aluminium? Perform the quick ScrapX magnet test! Magnets cling tightly to ferrous metals like steel but will not stick to aluminium—making it easy to identify steel screws, hinges, or brackets.
- Extrusions: Long, shaped lengths such as window and door frames, tracks, and shopfront sections.
- Sheet & Domestic: Flat panels, gutters, trays, pots, and household aluminium.
- Alloy wheels: Aluminium car wheels, stripped cleanly of tyres and balance weights.
- Always separate other valuable metals like copper scrap, brass scrap, and stainless steel for maximum rate.
Clean Your Scrap to Boost Your Rate
The cleaner your aluminium is, the higher rate ScrapX can unlock for you. Contaminated scrap rates top out around $0.81 per kg, whereas clean extrusions reach up to $3.50 per kg! Here is what you should clear away whenever possible:
Work smart! If non-aluminium attachments can be removed in a minute or two, strip them off. If removing an attachment requires excessive effort or specialized tools, leave it as-is and let our team know when requesting your quote.
Safety comes first: always wear protective gloves and eyewear. Avoid breaking glass or forcing cuts on stubborn materials.
- Window and door frames: remove glass, rubber seals, handles, locks and steel hinges or screws where you can.
- Alloy wheels: take off the tyre and any steel balancing weights, if you can do it safely.
- Other items: remove steel bolts, plastic, foam and rubber that pull away without a fight.
Since scrap payouts are volume-based, building a decent pile guarantees you get the most out of our hassle-free collection service.
Get a Fast Quote Before Your Pickup
Sharing a few photos and basic details allows ScrapX to evaluate your metal and prepare an accurate estimate prior to arrival:
- One wide shot of the whole pile
- A close-up of pipe ends, fittings, paint or plating
- A close-up of the cable, showing how thick it is and what it is covered in.
- A separate shot of anything attached to the metal, such as motors, brass taps or steel.
How ScrapX works
For scrap metal pickup in Canberra, ScrapX comes to you. The team arrives with certified, industrial-grade mobile scales, weighs your metal on site, and pays you on the spot. You do not have to load, drive or queue at a scrap yard.
- Free same-day pickup: Fyshwick, Belconnen, Gungahlin, Tuggeranong, Woden and the Inner North.
- Regional areas: Queanbeyan and surrounds (free for loads over $100), Yass and Murrumbateman (free for loads over $150), and Goulburn by appointment.
- Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
From photo to paid pickup
Send photos
Show the whole pile, close-ups of attachments and the likely metal grade.
Get a clear quote
Ask how the rate, grade and pickup threshold will be worked out.
Weigh on site
ScrapX arrives with mobile scales and checks the material in front of you.
Get paid
Once the weight and grade are agreed, payment is made on the spot.
Sell your aluminium scrap without loading the ute
Organize your materials, remove easy attachments, take a couple of quick photos, and estimate your weight. Contact ScrapX to book your free mobile pickup and get paid on the spot.
