Power Recycling — Local services in Collinsville

Considering it's the only recycling place close to the public it's not bad I guess but do they rip you off is another stories let's talk about the pricing flat line there lower than everyone else,second there scale how is it that Everytime you pull on the scale it dropped 20 # going on it raises 20 when you go back threw that's 40# in my opinion NOTE it's just an opinion I've been threw there at least a 100 + times that would be over 4000# s + that's in the 100s of dollars and then the copper don't get me started in my opinion they do it price gouging cause the can cause the low income area has nowhere else to. Go and I heard them. Tell one customer don't like it go somewhere else that's my opinion on the matter like I said just an...

They need to get a more precise scale where it breaks down to the half or quarter of a pound they are getting over on people that take copper or brass or any other non-ferrous metal. For example if you take 5 and 9/10 of a pound of copper in you only get paid for 5 lb of copper at today's prices that is $3.50 that you lost out on and with the amount of people that are taking non-ferrous metals in they are making a killing off of us by not breaking it down to the...

When you compare their prices to Grapperhaus, you won't want to come back to Power. Here's some price comparisons on 6/3/24. Prices from power are on my receipt and Grapperhaus has them on their site.

#2 copper: Grap: $3.53 Power: $3.20

Ac coils: Grap: $1.78 Power: $1.25

Compressors: Grap: $.30 Power: $.25

Power recycling is consistently 10%-40% less depending on what you scrap. If you have any decent amount to scrap, it's worth the gas money to go to...