“Metal Recycling Made Easy”

Services

Rathe’s Salvage is a one-stop shop for metal recycling, sell or scrap your vehicle, recycle scrap metal, or dispose of an old boat or RV!
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Junk my Car!

We Buy Cars! – Older Cars, Newer Cars, Accident Cars, or anything with wheels! including semi trucks, busses, and more!
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Scrap Metal Recycling

We pay top dollar for all types of metal including steel, aluminum, copper, brass, lead, stainless steel, and more!
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Boat & RV DIsposal

Have an Old Boat or Camper taking up space? Get a quote and learn more about our fast and easy disposal process!

Experience You Can Rely On

We have the experience and equipment to meet all of your metal recycling needs. Learn more about our process below!
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Recycling Made Simple – Here’s How It Works

We make the process fast and easy whether you’re a large business, or an individual, click to learn more about our process
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Get a Quote for your car or Metal

Fill out the form or call us.
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Schedule A Pick Up or Drop it off

Convenient, hassle-free service.
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Get Paid for recycling!

Earn cash while helping the environment.

See Why Our Customers Trust Us

Rathe's Metal Recycling

4.7Out of 5 stars

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Brian Avery
a week ago

Great to stop in at the trailer and see Armond & Eddie. My old stomping grounds ! Great place and memories.

Cindy Delorme
a week ago

Great prices would recommend

Sharon Boucher
Edited 2 weeks ago

Awesome team

Jeff O'Hara
2 weeks ago

Ben was incredibly to work with- prompt, accommodating, and timely. Can’t recommend using Rathe’s enough.

Jesse Lasnier
3 weeks ago

I love rather salvage they have always treated me right over my 33 years of coming here

Leslie
3 weeks ago

The best scrap yard in Vermont sorry to see him close

Brandan Martinez
3 weeks ago

Been coming here since a kid always been great service and very helpful

Proud Supporters of Our Industry

Have Questions or Need an Estimate?

Ed Rathe
-Owner
We are very proud to be one of the largest recyclers in Vermont. We’ve built our reputation on honesty, integrity, and above all—customer service.

FAQs

Click to learn more about our services, hours, and process

Depending on the age of the vehicle you may need a title to sell your car. Vehicles that are 15 years or older do not require a title. For vehicles that do not require a title, we still require proof of ownership including an old registration, insurance card, or bill of sale.

We accept many different types of metals including steel, aluminum, copper, brass, wire, and so much more! Check out our scrap metal recycling page to see a more complete list of the items we buy.

There is no rental fee associated with a scrap metal dumpster. Depending on your location, the only cost you pay is a transport fee. Once the dumpster is full, we’ll pick it up and pay your for the metal! For more information check out our scrap metal dumpster page.

Visit Us or Get in Touch!

Our salvage yard sits on 20 acres along Interstate I-89 in Colchester located 2 miles north of Burlington. Come on down, we look forward to seeing you!
Open Tuesday-Friday 8am-5pm.