ScrapTrade prices 37 materials across six real categories, serves six distinct parts of the industry, and runs across eight home-market cities and ten countries, on the same platform, under the same rules. This is the actual structure behind that claim, not just a description of it: every link below goes to a real, live page, not a placeholder or a category that exists in name only.
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A page like this only means something if it reflects a real structure, not a marketing page pretending to be one. Every link below points to a real, live page, checked against ScrapTrade's actual site structure before publishing, not assumed or aspirational. That distinction matters more than it sounds. A scrap seller comparing options across a dozen half-maintained directories and marketplace listings usually cannot tell which ones are current, which categories actually have live pricing behind them, and which pages have simply been abandoned.
This page exists so that question has one answer in one place: every material ScrapTrade actively prices, every industry ScrapTrade actively serves, and every city where ScrapTrade has a genuine home-market presence, organised the same way the Price Index itself is organised, so the two stay consistent with each other rather than drifting apart over time.
It also means this page will keep changing. Materials get added as coverage expands, new verticals get their own page once there is genuinely distinct content to justify one, and this list is updated in step with that, not maintained as a static snapshot that quietly falls out of date.
Thirty-seven dedicated material pages sit across six categories: ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, components and equipment, plastics, paper and cardboard, and e-waste. Every one of them runs on the same reference pricing from the ScrapTrade Price Index, the same listing mechanics, and the same escrow-backed settlement, not a different system depending on what you are trading.
The six categories are not arbitrary. They track how a buyer actually values and processes each type of material: ferrous and non-ferrous metals split apart because they are recovered through entirely different processes, magnetic separation versus everything else, components and equipment sit in their own category because their value comes from what is inside them rather than their bulk weight, and plastics, paper, and e-waste each have their own supply chains, buyers, and contamination rules that do not map onto metal categories at all.
Six industry pages cover the sources that generate scrap in genuinely different ways: a demolition site, a wrecked vehicle, a manufacturing offcut, retired farm machinery, a decommissioned vessel, and end-of-life rail stock all produce scrap for different reasons, on different timelines, and often in different material mixes. Each vertical gets its own page rather than one generic pitch reused six times.
A demolition site generates structural steel and aluminium framing in large, predictable batches tied to a project timeline. A wrecked vehicle yields a mixed, smaller-scale set of ferrous, aluminium, copper, and catalytic-converter material spread across hundreds of vehicles rather than one big load. A manufacturer's offcuts are typically the cleanest of the six, pre-sorted by the production process itself, which is part of why they usually grade higher than mixed scrap from any other source. Agricultural, marine, and rail material each come with their own material mix and access logistics that a generic industrial page cannot address properly.
Eight cities carry ScrapTrade's largest home-market concentration, real local industry context, not just a place name swapped into a template. None of them is a requirement to trade, the platform works the same way anywhere in Australia, and the same account also operates across 10 countries and 20 currencies for traders working internationally.
The context differs city to city too. Newcastle carries a genuine steelworks heritage that still shapes its local scrap trade, and Gold Coast's fast-growing construction sector generates a different, steadier supply than an older, more established market like Sydney or Melbourne. None of that local context is interchangeable, which is why each city gets its own page instead of the same copy with a suburb name swapped in.
Every material and every vertical above runs through the same three trading mechanisms, a fixed-price listing, a live auction, or the Wanted Board, plus the reference pricing that starts every conversation before any of the three even begins. None of the mechanisms are exclusive to a particular material, city, or account tier, a homeowner and a bulk dealer choose from the same three options.
A fixed-price listing suits a seller who wants certainty and a quick transaction over squeezing out maximum price. A live auction suits genuine competitive tension, when multiple buyers are likely to want the same lot. The Wanted Board flips the model entirely: buyers post what they need and sellers respond, useful when a specific material is hard to source rather than hard to sell. All three sit on every listing by default, not gated behind a premium tier or a minimum volume.
It's every material, industry vertical, and home-market city page, the structural core of the platform. It doesn't include every guide and explainer, those live in the Learn hub, or account, marketplace, and settings pages, which aren't relevant to browsing by material or location rather than by task.
The 37 pages listed cover the materials with dedicated pages today, not necessarily every material ScrapTrade will ever price. If yours isn't listed, it can usually still be listed on the general marketplace or posted to the Wanted Board, the same escrow and verification standard applies whether or not a material has its own dedicated page yet. See our guide on when it's worth expanding beyond your usual materials for more on how that decision plays out in practice.
No. Those eight are ScrapTrade's largest home-market concentrations, not a requirement. The platform works the same way anywhere in Australia, from a major city to a regional town, and the same account also operates across 10 countries for international trade, so location changes what's nearby, not what you can actually do on the platform.
The same six categories the ScrapTrade Price Index tracks: ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, components and equipment, plastics, paper and cardboard, and e-waste. Keeping the grouping consistent across both pages makes it easier to find the same material in either place.
The navigation menu is built for getting somewhere quickly once you already know what you want. This page is built to show the complete structure at a glance, useful when you are comparing options, checking whether a material has its own dedicated page, or just want to see the platform's actual scope in one place rather than clicking through menus one level at a time.
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