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“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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Schedule A Pick Up or Drop it off

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Rathe's Salvage - Scrap Metal & Automotive Recycling

4.6Out of 5 stars

Overall rating out of 158 Google reviews

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Owen Guthrie
6 days ago

Over the course of the last year we’ve taken 4 loads of various different things to Rathe’s. Appliances, auto parts, random scrap metal, scrap copper pipe, scrap copper wire, and more. Everyone is very friendly, helpful, fair, and easy to work with! Would recommend them to anyone!

Phelan Alber
2 weeks ago

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

Courtland williams
2 weeks ago

Always amazing service and will always buy your junk

Nick “datpersonfromvt” Webb
2 weeks ago

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

Jonathan Johnson
a month ago

As always great place to recycle metal, cars and buy parts!

Emilyo Galvin
a month ago

Great service very fast and helpful

Cheryl Persitz
a month ago

I utilized the form on the website and was pleasantly surprised with the same day quick response to my request. Ben called before heading out to let me know he was coming and was very professional and courteous. He picked up the car in the time frame promised on the call. I highly recommend their service! They will be my go to if I need again

Caitlin Maloney
a month ago

Had a really good experience with Rathe Salvage. Originally I was going to drive my very rusty 16 year old civic over to them since I’m not far away, but Ben was able to pick it up and give me the same quote as if I’d dropped it off. It was easy to schedule the pickup and Ben was perfectly on time. Great experience overall.

Brian Bohannon
a month ago

Always a good place to go! Friendly people and they help you unload if you need the help!

Mark Arvanigian
a month ago

Ben and the team at Rathe’s are amazing. Super nice people and easy to work with.

Stephen Merena
a month ago

Very responsive and professional. High recommendation.

Mark Beaumier
2 months ago

Great service, Friendly employees

Jess Maple
2 months ago

Thanks for the Awesome Jeep! And we were given extra pieces we needed. They even dug out the Jeep out of a 3 ft snow drift for us! Thanks for an awesome by. We love it.

Liz Fenton
3 months ago

Great service! Friendly, quick response time.

keith lance
3 months ago

Ben & Regina (in the office) were great and easy to deal with, simple transaction and no hassle, I would return to do business again. They gave a fair $ offer for my damaged vehicle which was more than other avenues had offered, Ben was prompt and professional with an emailed offer the same day.

Melanie Bennett
3 months ago

Made it super easy to recycle our vehicle. Pickup fee was also very reasonable making it even easier.

Ruben Ionnisian
3 months ago

Helpful people that are trying to meet all their customers needs.

Chet Nubbler
3 months ago

They are great here. Always friendly. Clear communication for helping me scrap

Dave Blittersdorf
4 months ago

Great, honest and efficient to buy a used forklift from. Thanks, Ben Rathe!

Sebastian R
4 months ago

Needed parts for an 01 CRV, had exactly what I needed. Lots of rims and other goodies

Emmett King
4 months ago

had the parts we needed readily available

Luke Beeson
4 months ago

Good prices for scrap and have the truck I’ve been looking everywhere for in the yard!

Maxwell King
4 months ago

Very friendly, good price for scrap metal

Bowen Malcolm
5 months ago

I had a positive experience doing business at Rathe's. Our communication was clear and respectful. This yard is organized and well-managed. Thanks, Ben!

Miranda Hayes
5 months ago

Rathe’s was an amazing at finding the part I needed for a great price. Highly recommend. Everyone was great. Thank you!

WBKM ORG
5 months ago

Ben was just great. He listened to my salvage situation and helped me sell my vehicle for a very fair price. A big load off my mind! Mr. Rathe was great at picking up the vehicle and completing the sale. Thanks to all!

Sarah Kennedy
5 months ago

Everybody was so helpful & nice to talk to on the phone during multiple conversations & even more friendly in person! Thank you to your crew for the positive experience all the way around! 😊

Michael Russen
6 months ago

Hands down best customer service.

Brandon Bondy
7 months ago

Rathe Salvage was great to work with. Excellent customer service and answered all my questions on the phone before I arrived. Would recommend.

Emmett Bortnick
7 months ago

Quick, easy, and above all else kind and helpful! If you need to scrap some metal come here!!

Adisyn Sample
8 months ago

Great Communication, and very flexible to be able to check out the car for sale! Great experience all around highly recommend!

Tom Juiffre
8 months ago

Ben is a great pleasure to work with, we highly recommend working with Rathe's

Justin Bouchard
9 months ago

Really good service and help. Family friendly people who work hard and definitely get things done right. Highly recommend.

Chronic Malcontent Of Narcissistic Rage (Chronic Malcontent)
9 months ago

Great people to deal with Thank you

Landon Bonk
9 months ago

Very good to deal with!!! Reasonable prices and great customer service.

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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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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.