Petersen Iron & Metal

Serving Johnson County, IA & Surrounding Communities for Over 35 Years!

We are committed to you, our customer, the environment, and our surrounding communities. Our aggressive pricing allows us to be flexible and creative in meeting your every need and to meet the dynamic recycling requirements of each customer. In addition, we are “green”. We strive to improve our environment by staying sensitive and respectful of our delicate earthly resources.Our company’s mission is simple: recycle America’s resources in an efficient, timely manner; provide top notch customer service and convenience; pay industry leading prices for your product; handle our affairs with integrity and honesty; and give back to our community with thanks for the opportunity you grant us.

Products We DO NOT Purchase or Recycle:

• Gas Tanks
• Ballasts NOT labeled 'No PCB's'
• Televisions & Computer Monitors
• Glass
• Tires
• Wood
• Products Containing PCBs
• Whole Automobiles

Container Service

Petersen Iron & Metal offers a container service for projects with a sizable amount of scrap metal and serves a broad range of industries from agriculture to manufacturing to auto repair.With a full fleet of semi trailers, lugger containers, and roll off containers, Petersen Iron & Metal will work with you to determine the most effective and efficient container type and size for your project.

Holiday Light Recycling
Petersen Iron & Metal is proud of our annual partnership with the City of Coralville’s Holiday Light Recycling Program. Community members are able to divert obsolete holiday lights from the Iowa City landfill.Between Thanksgiving Day and New Years Day, household waste production increases by nearly 25% fueled by volumes of holiday paper products, food waste, decorations, and Christmas lights, which place a significant strain on landfills and solid-waste handlers.Unfortunately, much of this holiday waste can be diverted from landfills to recyclers but isn’t.

Petersen Iron & Metal is working in concert with the City of Coralville to help reduce recyclable holiday light waste, and we invite you to take part.For your convenience, you may bring lights to any one of several drop-off locations in Coralville. Give us a call to find a location near you.Thank you for your partnership and dedication to a clean Coralville.

Steel Recycling In Iowa City
Steel recycling, in the greater Iowa City community area, provides the new steel industry with the largest portion of its raw materials for production of automotive steel, structural steel, and sheet steel which markedly reduces the cost of new goods. Manufacturing products from recycled scrap steel requires over 75% less energy–in oil and electricity–than producing the same amount of steel from mined iron ore.At Petersen Iron & Metal, we are proud to support Johnson County’s local economy and environment by recycling steel and other scrap metals. Annually, the steel produced from recycled steel saves enough energy to keep Johnson County’s lights on for nearly 720 years.