No.2 Copper Wire Scrap shall consist of miscellaneous, clean, unalloyed copper wire having a nominal 96% copper content. It shall not consist of hair wire and burnt wire which is brittle. Any wire that has excessive oils on it is also not allowed. Furthermore, it must be reasonably free of ash.
price
No.2 Copper Wire Scrap can be sold at any local scrap yard. However, please note that it is priced less than No.1 Copper Wire.
yards
Any wire that is plated will fall into this classification of copper wire scrap. This category of copper wire scrap can be identified based on the percentage of copper that can be recovered from it, once stripped. No.2 Copper Wire Scrap generally recovers between 50% and 70% copper. Wires with more than 70% recovery rate are classified as No.1 Copper Wire Scrap. The copper recovery rate has a direct influence on wire scrap pricing.
The processed scrap from scrap yards in large quantities are transported to customers around the world, primarily via ships.