Sentence examples for scrap prices from inspiring English sources

Scrap prices in 1980 fluctuated by about $60 a ton.

With gold scrap prices at current heights, however, this practice has reached a peak.

Steel scrap prices fell by as much as $10 a ton.

The invisible hand of high scrap prices is tidying Mongolia's sere and treeless landscape, a tableau now picked clean of metal trash.

"There's no business," complained the 36-year-old, who built a thriving junkyard in this dilapidated recycling village only to watch it crumble this year as plummeting scrap prices bankrupted her family.

Experienced trash pickers, once incorporated into the formal economy, would recycle as efficiently as they always have, but they'd gain access to information on global scrap prices and would be better able to bargain for fair compensation.

The jeweler will usually pay you up to 40 percent of the gold's current scrap price for gold jewelry, and if the piece itself is signed by a maker such as Tiffany's or another designer, they may pay you more for the jewelry itself instead of only paying you for the metal and the gems.

It was at this time, around 2008, that scrapping prices started hitting record highs.

Defining the scrapped price for those goods which are on their due expiry date   3.

Tells about the grading of scrap; ceiling prices, etc.

Rocketing scrap metal prices mean they are worth £5-7 each, so a few hours of piracy brings a tidy profit.