| Cities are heavily ladden with metal from high | | | | pounds, which can add up quickly especially if you |
| rises and automobiles, to metal fencing and | | | | watch on city clean up day. |
| discarded batteries. There are efficient and | | | | The most common area of recycling scrap metal |
| profitable way to recycle these unwanted | | | | comes from old automobiles. This is the reason |
| materials. | | | | for charities volunteering to haul away your old |
| Demolished high rises account for a tremendous | | | | car, the metal is worth more than the car in |
| amount of scrap metal. As with all scrap it is | | | | many instances. Wrecking yards let customers |
| trucked to wrecking yards or scrapyards where | | | | sort through their stuff to purchase before |
| the metal is melted down in smelters and the | | | | melting it down. Wrecking yards on the other |
| metal is reused by other industries. | | | | hand, sell by weight rather than items, sometimes |
| Recycling scraps help keep the water and air | | | | making for a great deal |
| cleaner by removing hazardous materials from | | | | Canada is leading the way with scrap metal |
| landfills. The recycling of metals also is a great | | | | recycling and has a scrap yard in every province. |
| way to keep the junk down at landfills. Household | | | | Toronto has metal scrap reclamation companies |
| "junk," as dealers call it, such as old hot water | | | | that are state of the art and make the removal, |
| heater, old refrigerators, batteries, metal fencing, | | | | hauling, melting and retooling easy. We need to |
| hub caps, old wiring, rain gutters and such. Price | | | | follow the example of our neighbors with scrap |
| paid is somewhere about.50 to.60 cents per 50 | | | | metal reclamation. |