“Metal Recycling Made Easy”

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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

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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 Salvage - Scrap Metal & Automotive Recycling

4.7Out of 5 stars

Overall rating out of 220 Google reviews

Dennis Bouldin
4 days ago

Left car to be scrapped. Very efficient and friendly (Reggina)

gabrielle jean
a week ago

Super easy to work with!

Robert Gay
a week ago

Filled out the online form in the morning, junk car was gone by evening. Made it easy and pleasant to remove a problem from my plate. Thanks Ben!

Clayton McMahon
a week ago

Great people very helpful! I highly recommend rathes salvage!

Carol Layton
a week ago

Never have given me any problems and always treated with respect.

Phelan Alber
Edited 2 weeks ago

Friendly staff, good prices on scrap metal return. All around good experience

Dakota Parker-Senna
3 weeks ago

Been here forever and always do great business!

David Audette
a month ago

Super friendly staff! Very fair pricing! Highly recommend going to them…

Nathan Farnham
a month ago

Great company to do business with.

Doug Batchelder
a month ago

Best salvage yard to deal with hands down.

Curtis Partlow
a month ago

I will always bring my brass or all metal recycling to Rathes fair pricing and friendly staff

Elizabeth Lamphere
a month ago

They treat us very well

R Verbitis
a month ago

Rathe'a metal recycling center is awesome. It is conveniently located close to Burlington and it's hours are very business friendly. . I love that I am able to recycle my old metal waste that my father has collected for 60 years. Added bonus, I get to converse with Regina on the intercom who operates the the weigh scales and checks you in and out. Great service w great people. It doesn't get any better than that. Roger Verville

Aaron Baltusis
a month ago

Great service!

Katherine Armstrong
a month ago

Very easy and friendly service!!! Called in the morning, and they came and picked up my car within a few hours. Quick transaction, left with some money and one less problem. Highly recommend :)!!

Travis Larkin
a month ago

Showed up on time, super communicative. Very easy to get rid of my car. Thanks Rathes! Would definitely recommend.

Todd C. MacKenzie
a month ago

I have been a happy customer at Rathe's salvage for 35 years. It’s been great every visit while wandering the yard looking for parts. Great work folks!

Rachael Brock
a month ago

Quick, easy & efficient pick up and towing of my car that I needed to get rid of! Would definitely use their service again if needed!

Nick “datpersonfromvt” Webb
Edited a month ago

They love my junk and always give good money for my junk

Mike Millette
a month ago

Customer service is 5 star. Always helpful and willing to give you the best price for your scape metal!

Kyle Lam
a month ago

Great experience, quick and simple transaction. Great way to get rid of old metal laying around and make couple dollars at same time!

Mark Duda
2 months ago

Very friendly people. Great service!

wook punisher
2 months ago

Very friendly no issues. Would use again.

Karyn Parker
2 months ago

Absolutely the best of the best! If you need a car, Rathe's will fix you up! I've been driving Rathe's "Junk"- yard cars for 30 years, and couldn't be happier! Thank You so much to all of you (always awesome staff)!

Dion Blackwell
2 months ago

Friendly very professional, allows you come through out the day receiving recipe’s then once you’re done receive your check. Come check and they pay more

J Patton
2 months ago

Amazing service! Amazing people!

Jack Smith
2 months ago

Always a pleasant experience!

Edward Martin
2 months ago

Outstanding service and very reasonably priced. Ben and his crew couldn't have been easier to work with, and they did a great job!

June Tomasi
2 months ago

Quick and efficient!

Jack Gagnon
2 months ago

Great service, made it quick and easy to have my old car picked up

Heather Lash
2 months ago

They paid me $615 more than the dealership offered me for trade in! I talked to Ben, got the offer and he picked the car up less than 2 hours later. You cannot get more efficient than that!

Luke Tougas
2 months ago

Rathe was highly responsive to my inquiries and was very flexible in accommodating my scheduling requests. The customer service was very friendly. Overall, I had a great experience and would highly recommend them.

Shayne Spence
2 months ago

Rathe's made it easy and painless for me to get rid of an old vehicle. They were even willing to come in on a beautiful Saturday to take care of me. Much appreciated and helpful service.

Cougar Prey
2 months ago

Great folks, great to work with. Scrapping is super easy here

Jonathan
2 months ago

Great guys to deal with!

Matt Jones
2 months ago

Good prices and easy to work with

Evan Driscoll
2 months ago

Super friendly and helpful. Made it very easy to get rid of my car. Would definitely recommend!

Greg
2 months ago

Been going to Rathe's since 1996 always treated me fair,great to see Ben is now working there with his father Eddie updating the business and keeping up with the times..

Robert Sweeney
Edited 2 months ago

Always bring my scrap to Rathe's great service and response and best prices in Burlington area! Another great stop at the yard this morning before work Ben is always very helpful and provides top notch customer service!!!!!! Thanks Rathe’s!!!!!!!!!!

Steven Yardley
2 months ago

Rathe’s quickly got our car that needed to be towed and scrapped. They were incredibly friendly and nice. Five stars.

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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.

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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.