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Scrap metal recycling
from:Recycling is the process of turning used materials into new materials as a means of helping the environment. A major form of recycling is scrap metal recycling. Scrap metal recycling, along with other types of recycling, helps the environment by reducing the use of energy, the consumption fresh raw materials, preventing useful materials from being wasted and reducing water and air pollution (from landfills and incineration) and lessening our need for our conventional disposal of waste, which will also reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
Scrap metal recycling is the breakdown and reproduction of different kinds of metals. Metals are broken down into either ferrous or non-ferrous metals. Ferrous metals may be iron or steel, which are both the easiest materials to reprocess as well as the most recycled materials in the world. Scrap metal recycling of ferrous materials is done by remelting the steel in an electric arc furnace or used in a Basic Oxygen Furnace. Steel can be easily recycled into a high quality new type of metal, with no downgrade in quality. Crude steel is used in almost 50% of scrap metal recycling processes.
One of the most widely used recycling non-ferrous metals is aluminum. Whether it's crushed and smashed into small pieces or bales, it's extremely efficient and easy to recycle. Scrap metal recycling of aluminum is highly efficient because there is no change in the metal, making it possible to continue recycling it indefinitely. The cost or making new aluminum is saved by almost 95% when using recycled aluminum. Once the aluminum is crushed into small pieces or bales, they are put into an aluminum smelter where molten aluminum is formed. At this point, you can't tell virgin aluminum from the recycled aluminum. So much more energy is used to extract new aluminum from the mine, that it is much cheaper to just recycle the used aluminum.
Scrap metal recycling helps to preserve our natural resources and save energy as well as reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Over 145 million tons of scrap materials are removed from landfills by scrap metal recycling. In areas where there is a large amount of scrap, it's often taken to junkyards or scrap yards until it can be put into a melter to be processed into a new product. By keeping them out of the landfills, we're helping to keep our water and air cleaner buy eliminating any possibly hazardous materials from the atmosphere.
Almost everything today can be recycled and the public is always encouraged to recycle every chance they get. Aluminum soda cans that are recycled may seem like a small item yet comprise a great amount of materials. Many families save these for their environment as well as the money they can get for the recycled cans.
Oregon Metal Recycling Specific links
Oregon Metal Recycling News
EG Metals Inc. Signs on as Washington County Fair Presenting Sponsor - Seattle Post Intelligencer
EG Metals Inc. Signs on as Washington County Fair Presenting Sponsor Seattle Post Intelligencer The company is a full-serve recycler of scrap metal, electronics, and automobiles, and earned the prestigious recycling industry designation of becoming Oregon's first R2/RIOS Certified Electronics Recycler®. “We are extremely proud and excited to be ... |
Front Porch: Scrap metal drive in Everett - HeraldNet
Front Porch: Scrap metal drive in Everett HeraldNet People are being asked to bring their scrap metal to a fundraiser at 9 am Saturday at Madison Elementary School, 616 Pecks Drive, Everett. The scrap metal drive put on by the View Ridge/Madison Neighborhood Association and BnB Recycling is raising ... |
Inquiry into metal-depot death raises safety questions - Victoria Times Colonist
Inquiry into metal-depot death raises safety questions Victoria Times Colonist James Tremaine, 35, was working at Steel Pacific Recycling on May 5 with a crew of about half a dozen when he got caught in a machine used to separate metal from other material. A WorkSafe BC inspection the next day found that the "joint product ... |
Breakthrough Moment - Recycling Today
Breakthrough Moment Recycling Today In the United Kingdom since the fall of 2010, one of that country's largest auto shredder operators, European Metal Recycling Ltd. (EMR), has been operating a plant in Worksop, England, designed to process the ASR produced at EMR's multiple shredding ... |
Man killed at Victoria metal depot had 'turned his life around' - Vancouver Sun
Man killed at Victoria metal depot had 'turned his life around' Vancouver Sun Management at Steel Pacific Recycling praised Tremaine's work ethic. "He was well liked, well trained, well respected," said Jamie Wilson, the company's international director of operations, who flew in from Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. |