Metal Scrap Recycling

By Author: Guna Seelan
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The manufacturing industries throws out millions of tons scrap every year without recycling them in their industries. These scrap metals are now exported to developing countries like India, China and other south Asian countries. The recycling process includes different stages like collecting the material, processing and cleaning them. When they are ready to reuse these recycled metals will be send back to manufacturing industries those who are using recycled metals for their new products. Most common recycled products like Newspapers, plastic bottles, batteries don't fall into the category metal recycling. Aluminium and steel are the two major metals used for recycling. Most of the products made of these above listed materials are recycled products only. As per a survey more than 70% of the aluminum cans manufactured every year was produced from recycled metal. The recycling rate seems to be keep on increasing when it comes to aluminum cans. But this is not the same for other metals.

Lack of awareness in recycling

Listed are some of the key factors why other metals are not recycled as aluminium. The advantage with ...
... the aluminum recycling is because of its close loop recycling process. Most of the aluminum cans are recycled within 60 days after they are used. Also they don't need big investments or costly machines to recycle these cans whereas the other metals like copper, gold, silver and brass cannot be recycled in small quantities .These metals need high end technologies and machines to make them ready to use for new products. Another main disadvantage is lack of awareness among people with these products made of recycled precious metals. The products with the label recycled seem to have a negative impact among people and they are treated as second quality products.

Advantages with the metal recycling

As per U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statistics nearly 60% of the aluminum cans manufactured comes from recycled materials and 65% of steel cans are recycled and used. This alone saves some $800 million every year. It's not about getting profits with the recycled products anymore. More over as per the studies by Imperial College London recycling delivers annual CO2 reductions of 500 million tones. There may be insufficient resources in future to sustain current rate of metal consumption. So it's in our hands to minimize and reverse this damage by increasing environmentally-responsible recovery and reuse of valuable materials like copper, aluminum, gold, silver, brass and silver.

Some developed countries like United States have strict policies now to reuse the above listed materials. Check with your local authorities before throwing out these precious materials.

RecycleinME.com is an online scrap metal portal that helps scrap metal buyers to connect with scrap metal suppliers. It has been never easy to find genuine scrap sellers online. Considering this recycleinME.com is taking appropriate measures to filter these fraud companies worldwide.