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