





Used iron sold illegally as waste in Austria, Germany
In Germany the price of metallic waste, either new or old varies between 600 to 1,200 euro/ton if it is delivered straight to big companies that collect it. These companies can be contacted by phone and they takeover the containers, on their own transportation costs.
This is a legal and environmentally-friendly business but not that safe for that matter. Those acquiring metal should be forbidden to buy metal from private people, or accept suspicious products like bolts, cables and others.
Companies should request legal paperwork before accepting metal wastes, that can be checked by customs if the old metal is exported. In the European Union, however, the customs does not have a say any longer and thus the metal runs like pure silver, from the East to the West.