Free Scrap Pick-Up Available | We Accept a Minimum of 500 Kg of Scrap Metal
Free Scrap Pick-Up Available | We Accept a Minimum of 500 Kg of Scrap Metal
Looking for zinc scrap prices in Melbourne? Ohny Metal Recycling buys scrap zinc across the city, including galvanised roof sheeting, die-cast offcuts and old anodes. Zinc gets overlooked next to copper and brass, and people lose money because of it. We don’t post a fixed rate because the price changes with the metal market. What you get paid depends on that day’s market, how clean your zinc is and how much you bring in.
Call Ohny Metal Recycling on 0449 894 456 for today’s price, or send us a photo and a rough weight and we’ll come back to you with a quote.
We don’t publish a fixed zinc rate, and you should be a bit wary of any yard that does.
Zinc trades on the global commodity market. The price moves daily, sometimes sharply, and a number printed on a website three months ago tells you nothing useful about what you’ll be paid this afternoon. We price off live market rates on the day you sell, which is the only way the figure means anything.
What we can tell you is roughly where zinc sits. Against the metals we do publish rates for on our scrap metal prices page, zinc lands in the middle of the non-ferrous range — below clean copper and brass, comfortably above HMS steel. It’s not the metal that makes your week, but a decent load adds up faster than most people expect.
For the current zinc scrap prices in Melbourne, ring us. We’ll quote on the spot, and what we quote is what you get paid.
If you’re checking zinc scrap prices, the rate you receive can vary depending on the type, quality and cleanliness of the material. The zinc scrap price per kg in Melbourne is not the same for every load, so knowing what you have can make a significant difference when it comes time to sell.
Offcuts, sprues, runners and rejected castings straight off the floor. If it’s clean, sorted and free of steel inserts, this is the top of the zinc range. Manufacturers and fabricators generating this regularly get the best rates we pay for zinc.
Fresh material from plumbing, roofing or sheet metal work. Uncoated, unpainted, no fixings through it. Prices close to die-cast when it’s properly clean.
This is where expectations and reality part ways. Galvanised material is steel with a zinc coating — the zinc is measured in microns, not kilos. It’s priced as steel, not as zinc, because that’s what you’re mostly selling. Roofing iron, gutters, flashings and ducting all fall here. Still worth bringing in, especially by the trailer load, just don’t expect zinc money for it.
Marine anodes, wheel weights, sacrificial blocks. Usually good, clean metal. Anodes that have done their job are lighter and more pitted than they look, so weight is the thing to check before you get excited about a quote.
Machinery parts, automotive components, mixed alloy castings. Priced on assessment. Steel bolts, plastic housings and rubber seals all come off the weight, so the more you strip, the better you do.
Industrial by-product from galvanising and casting operations. We buy it, but it’s priced on zinc content rather than gross weight, so it needs assessing before we can quote properly. Worth a call if you’re generating it in volume.
We also buy brass and bronze, which are zinc-copper alloys and pay considerably better — see our brass and copper pages if there’s any of that in your load.
Four things, in roughly this order of impact.
The global market. Zinc is traded worldwide, and yards price off that. When the market moves, every yard in the city moves with it. Anyone claiming to be immune to it is either confused or hoping you are. This is why the value of scrap zinc in Melbourne can change from one period to another.
How clean it is. Zinc with paint, plastic, rubber, concrete or steel fixings through it takes work to process, and that work comes out of your rate. Clean metal is simply worth more.
How well it’s sorted. A mixed bin gets priced at whatever the cheapest metal in it is worth. That’s not a yard being difficult — it’s the only fair way to price something nobody has separated. Sorting your own load is usually the highest-paid hour of work you’ll do all week.
Volume. Bigger loads are cheaper for us to handle per kilo, and that shows up in the rate. It’s also what makes our free pickup work — we collect at no charge on loads over 500kg.
If you’re looking to improve the zinc scrap prices in Melbourne you receive, none of this is complicated, and all of it pays.
Our guide on how to prepare scrap metal before selling covers the rest.
Every load is weighed on site on verified digital scales, and you watch it happen. No estimating, no guesswork, no figure arrived somewhere you can’t see.
Payment is same-day, by bank transfer or cheque. We don’t pay cash — Victoria tightened the rules on cash in the scrap trade back in 2018, and we’ve worked for them ever since. If a yard is still waving notes at you, it’s worth asking what else they’re relaxed about.
There are no deductions after the fact. The price we quote is the price you’re paid.
Die-cast components and offcuts · galvanised steel and sheeting · roofing tiles, gutters and flashings · zinc anodes and weights · brass and bronze · mixed zinc alloys from machinery and automotive parts · zinc ash and dross · old zinc pipes and plumbing fittings.
If it’s zinc and it’s not on that list, ring us anyway. The list isn’t exhaustive.
Plumbers clearing out old pipework and fittings. Roofers with a ute full of flashing and guttering. Builders and demolition contractors stripping a site. Manufacturers and fabricators with regular die-cast offcuts. Farmers clearing a shed that’s been filling up since the nineties. And homeowners who pulled up an old roof and worked out it was worth more than a trip to the tip.
Commercial volume is its own conversation — we handle scheduled collections and factory dismantling for sites clearing out at scale.
We’re based at Braeside and provide zinc recycling in Melbourne, collecting right across the city — the south-east, the bayside suburbs, the eastern and northern corridors, and out west. If you’re not sure whether you’re in range, ask. We usually are.
Free pickup applies on loads over 500kg. Under that, you’re welcome to drop off at the yard, and there’s no minimum on what we’ll weigh in.
Ring 0449 894 456 and tell us roughly what you’ve got and how much of it. If you’re checking zinc scrap prices in Melbourne, we’ll give you a current quote based on what you have. You’ll have a number in a couple of minutes.
If it’s easier, send photos and an estimated weight through the contact form, and we’ll come back to you with a quote and a collection time.
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It changes daily with the global zinc market, so we quote on the day rather than publishing a fixed rate. Call 0449 894 456, and we’ll give you today’s figure for your grade of zinc.
It depends on the grade. Clean die-cast zinc and new zinc sheet sit at the top of the range. Galvanised material is priced as steel because that’s mostly what it is. Zinc ash and dross are priced on zinc content. Tell us what you’ve got and we’ll quote per kilo.
Yes, noticeably. A mixed bin gets priced at the rate of the cheapest metal in it. Separating zinc from steel and keeping die-cast apart from galvanised is the single easiest way to lift what you’re paid.
No. Galvanised steel is steel with a thin zinc coating measured in microns, so it’s priced as steel. It’s still worth recycling, particularly in volume, but it won’t pay zinc rates.
Yes, on loads over 500kg anywhere in Melbourne. Below that, you can drop off at our Braeside yard, and we’ll weigh in any quantity.
Bank transfer or cheque, on the same day we collect, or when you drop off. We don’t pay cash, in line with the Victorian rules introduced in 2018.
You can, and plenty of people do. Just know it’ll be priced as mixed metal at the lowest rate in the load. If you’ve got the time, sorting pays for itself several times over.
Over six years. We’re a licensed scrap metal buyer operating under Victorian regulations, weighing on verified scales with no hidden fees.
