Metal Recycling
Recycling has become an intricate part of waste management for centuries. Recycling by definition is the reuse of materials, either pre-consumer or post-consumer, that would ordinarily be considered waste. Recycling helps lessen the amount of waste that goes into landfills, helps reduce the amount of toxic chemicals absorbed into the earth and, in some cases, significantly reduces manufacturing costs and energy consumption.
Metals are a resource that needs to be managed with care. Once non-ferrous metal is collected and prepared it becomes a true raw material, and provides a limitless resource that can be recycled into new products over and over again. They have been called "a mine above ground", and protect earth's natural resources while meeting the needs of industry worldwide.
Metals can be recycled indefinitely without losing any of their properties. Because all metals have different melting temperatures, pure forms can be separated from alloys.
Scrap metal is divided into two types: ferrous and nonferrous. Ferrous scrap is scrap iron and steel. This includes scrap from old cars, household appliances, steel beams, railroad tracks, ships, and food packaging and other containers.
Nonferrous scrap metal is scrap metal other than iron and steel. Examples of nonferrous scrap include aluminum - including foil and cans, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, titanium, cobalt, chromium, and precious metals. Although there is less nonferrous scrap than ferrous scrap, it is often worth. Millions of tons of nonferrous scrap metal are recovered by processors and consumed by secondary smelter, refiners, ingot makers, fabricators, foundries, and other industries.
Non-ferrous metals are defined as metals that contain a little or no iron; that category includes aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, gold, silver, platinum, titanium, manganese, magnesium, etc... Together with metal alloys made of a combination of two or more metals.
Non-ferrous metal scrap companies obtain the materials from a wide variety of sources including industrial plants, car dismantlers, municipal authorities, demolition, food and beverage containers, construction, etc... They use heavy machinery and equipment and need large plant and storage spaces together which large transport fleets to deliver their raw materials to smelters and foundries ready to process. The metal scrap processor or recycler has to identify the metallic components and to sort and prepare them according to strict chemical and physical specifications in environmentally sound operations, before they can be converted into new metallic products - closing the recycling loop.
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