| The environment is something of a hot topic at the | | | | recycling plant takes some old and turns it in to |
| moment, with growing pressures both politically and | | | | something completely new, suitable for reuse ad ready |
| socially to act up to our responsibilities to the planet | | | | for sale. We also tend to think of this as an |
| and its ongoing conservation. After decades, even | | | | environmentally friendly practice, but we’re never |
| centuries of pollution and mindless resource depletion, | | | | really told why. In fact, recycling can be the process of |
| we are now at a stage where far more caution must | | | | melting scrap metals for resale, but it can also be put |
| be exercised in the way we live our lives. Of course | | | | under the heading of what your average scrap dealer |
| business and commerce can’t simply halt for the | | | | will do when he sells a piece of metal on to someone |
| sake of the planet, and hence the process of recycling | | | | else. Recycling can be defined as reusing in any sense |
| resources has become more and more prominent | | | | of the word, which is environmentally friendly for one |
| over the last few years, particularly in the scrap metal | | | | key reason – the more scrap metal reintroduced |
| trade which has been buoyed as a result. In this article | | | | into circulation, the less metal that has to be |
| we’ll look at why scrap metal recycling is good for | | | | manufactured. |
| the environment and why it should be encouraged at | | | | Manufacturing metal is by its very nature |
| any cost. | | | | environmentally intensive, creating toxic fumes and a |
| Scrap metal starts out life as any other metal material. | | | | certain amount of wastage that’s anything but kind |
| It is built for a purpose and is often reserved for that | | | | to the planet. As we cut down the amount of |
| specific use, be it in building or construction, machinery, | | | | manufacturing going on we cut out some of the |
| technology or agriculture, where it will remain forever | | | | pollution and waste that wreaks havoc on the earth, |
| more in an ideal world. However, what happens when | | | | yet we fill in the void created by recycled scrap metal. |
| that machine breaks down, or the building is demolished | | | | With scrap metal just as usable as fresh metal and far |
| to make way for some newer construction project? | | | | less environmentally taxing, it makes sense to promote |
| The metal from there becomes scrap, unwanted and | | | | the trade and use of scrap in manufacturing |
| many look to simply get rid of it out of their hands, | | | | processes, rather than to continually produce more and |
| usually by visiting a scrap metal dealer who will buy | | | | more fresh material at the expense of the |
| different bits of metal for money. So what’s the big | | | | environment. For this reason, recycling scrap metal is |
| idea about recycling then? | | | | both cost effective for the buyer, and environmentally |
| When people think of recycling, they tend to think of | | | | friendly all round. |
| some chemical or mechanised process whereby a | | | | |