Pewter
Recyclable?
Blue Bins & Chutes
Other Recycling
Recommended
Specialised Recycling
Many scrap metal dealers will buy pewter. Pewter is priced similar to lead and zinc.
Karung Guni may also take pewter to resell to scrap metal dealers. But understand that because they are buying it for scrap, the price you will get will be nowhere near the original cost. The original cost includes a large amount for the artistic merit of the item. That is worth nothing as scrap.
Scrap Metal Dealers
Karung Guni
Alternative
Other
Return Royal Selangor products to Royal Selangor in Malaysia
There is a Royal Selangor shop in JB at 35C, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000. Items returned will get melted down and used in new products. You can get trade-in value if you are buying another item.
Alternative
Charitable Donation
Thrift shops that deal in housewares may accept pewter items if they are suitable to be reused and resold.
See listings under Household Items
Alternative
Recycling Bins & Chutes
Pewter is not specifically mentioned on NEA official sites
A public waste collector has confirmed that pewter is welcome in blue bins.
They told us “all metal alloys are recoverable at the MRF, thus it is okay to put them into the blue bins.”
Blue Bins
Segregated Bins
Info & Insights
Pewter is a type of metal alloy that is made mostly of tin (90%), along with small amounts of copper, antimony, and sometimes other metals. It is a soft and malleable material that has been used for centuries to create decorative objects, tableware, and jewelry.
Pewter items are often engraved, etched, or decorated with intricate designs, making them popular as gifts and collectibles. However all of this artistic work as zero value as scrap.
Recycling @ Royal Selangor
In Singapore, the most common pewter items found are made by Royal Selangor, a world-renowned pewter company based in Malaysia.
Royal Selangor does not offer general pewter recycling services however, at Malaysian stores only, they will take back old Royal Selangor pieces for recycling and will offer trade-in value for these returns.
Per their website: “Pewter shavings, discontinued items, items which do not meet quality standards and cannot be repaired are melted and re-used to make new products.”
