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Gold-plated connectors, silver contacts, circuit boards, brazing alloys and manufacturing offcuts; we collect gold and silver-bearing waste from businesses of any size, anywhere in the UK.
Recovered from electronic, industrial and manufacturing waste.
Gold and silver can be refined and reused with no loss of quality.
Collection service available, Mon–Fri.
At MetalCycle, we provide specialist precious metal recycling services for businesses of all sizes across the UK.
Gold and silver are used across modern industry because they conduct electricity well and resist corrosion. You’ll find them in circuit boards, connectors and pins, relay and switchgear contacts, solders, brazing alloys and plated components. Even small amounts add up, so gold and silver-bearing scrap is some of the most valuable waste a business can produce.
Whether you’re an electronics manufacturer, an electrical contractor, an IT disposal company or an engineering business with plating or brazing scrap, our nationwide collection service makes precious metal recovery simple, transparent and fully compliant.
Mining gold and silver is expensive, energy-intensive and damaging to the environment. Recycled precious metals are chemically identical to newly mined metal and can be refined and reused indefinitely without any loss of quality.
When your business recycles precious metal waste with MetalCycle, your material is assessed, sent to specialist refiners and recovered for reuse. That turns waste into value, supports a circular economy and gives you a clear audit trail for your environmental reporting.
Motherboards, server boards and telecoms cards containing gold and silver. See our PCB recycling service.
Connectors, pins, edge connectors and plated contacts from electronics and manufacturing.
Silver-bearing contacts from relays, switchgear, breakers and contactors.
Silver solder, brazing rod, wire and paste from engineering and fabrication work.
Not listed? Ask us – we’ll confirm whether we can collect it.
Fast, secure collections of precious metal waste for businesses across the country.
From bags of offcuts and single drums to large volumes.
Full documentation for every collection to support your duty of care.
Gold and silver recovered through specialist refining and returned to use.
Tell us the material type, approximate weight and location. Photos help us give an accurate early estimate.
We collect precious metal scrap directly and securely from your premises.
Material is sorted, sampled and tested to confirm its gold and silver content, then refined to recover the metal.
You receive full compliance documentation for your records.
If your business needs a reliable, transparent and fully compliant precious metal recycling service, MetalCycle is here to help.
Contact us today to schedule your collection and recover the full value of your gold and silver-bearing waste.
Precious metal recycling is the recovery of gold, silver and other precious metals from scrap materials such as electronics, contacts, solders and manufacturing waste. The metals are refined back to a pure form and reused in new products.
Waste is first sorted by type, then sampled and assayed (tested) to measure how much gold and silver it contains. It is then refined using smelting and chemical or electrolytic processes that separate the precious metals from other materials. Settlement is based on the assay results and current market prices.
Common sources include circuit boards, gold-plated connectors and pins, silver relay and switchgear contacts, silver solder and brazing alloys, and plated manufacturing waste.
