Virily Editor
Metal is a large part of everyones life. It has countless jobs in our world, but sadly sometimes not all metal can be accounted for or be considered valuable. Although scrap metal should never be viewed as obsolete. Metal is very versatile, coming in so many varieties and being highly recyclable. It makes no sense in leaving it for dead in landfill.
Scrap metal of all types can be redistributed back in to your community through a controlled and orderly way. The scrap metal recycling process keeps our landscapes alive and breathing with some very important steps.
Collection & Sorting
Most of your scrap metal will find its way to scrap metal yards from waste management collectors. From there the metals will be sorted and separated into different bins. The two types of metals are ferrous and non-ferrous. Non-ferrous metals do not contain iron, this makes them non magnetic and as a result more resistant to corrosion. Most metal items from bikes, to sinks, to pipes can be recycled. The metals will then be transported to super collectors for the next step.
Crushing & Shredding Process
At the processing plants, they firstly crush the scrap metal down, making the heaps easier to handle on conveyor belts. Hammer mills cut the metal down in a process called shredding. This makes the metal a lot smaller. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals become separated by placing the loads inside magnetic barrels, non metallic items are removed by pumping hot air through the metal. This process is important to remove excess waste gained.
Melting & Purifying
All the metals get melted down in furnaces, each metal is burnt in a different furnaces depending its properties. Most furnaces will be energy efficient with use of regenerative burners helping protect the environment from any possible industrial damage. Jet stirrers within the furnaces are used for creating a high quality result. Their use helps with temperature control, whilst promoting metal circulation inside the furnaces.
At this point, the metals will become a molten state. They’re then purified with “Eddy Current” electrolysis. Depending on the metal, its liquid gets poured in to moulds and cooled down. Large amounts of Aluminium ingots usually weighing 18 tonne and containing 1.5 million used cans gets sent to mills and rolled in to sheets, aluminium can manufacturers will take the materials and recreate cans from it.
Why Scrap Metal Recycling Is Important
The costs of recycling metal may be high to maintain but overall uses less energy to recycle than it does making new products. Recycling old cans saves 75% of the energy that goes in to producing new steel. The amount of energy it takes to create one metal can is the same it takes to recycle 20.
Mining for metal can inflict irreversible damage to landscapes and natural habitats. Shrinking the amount of times this process has to happen will benefit everyone. Metal is one of the most recyclable resources on the planet and it can be reused over and over again.
How To Reduce Environmental Damage
The easiest step to take when it comes to reducing damage to the eco system is by recycling your metal waste as much as possible. Metal takes hundreds of years to decompose, sending it to landfill will have catastrophic effects on our planet.
Make sure to throw all your scrap metal waste in recycling bins in your home. And if you are involved in a building job, use a skip hire service. Companies such as Mackers Total Recycling who specialise in waste management plans and recycling needs. Skip waste is recycled because its cheaper to do so than transporting the rubbish to landfill.
Its beneficial to research ways on how to reuse your household or business waste and put these ideas to practice. Try your best not to waste items, use them as respectively as you can to avoid unnecessary damages. Metal is highly durable, use that to your advantage in your home and businesses by reusing items as much as possible. Because of ferrous metals higher corrosion rate, these metals become less valuable over time, but its still worth recycling them. Other than recycling metal you can sell it to scrap metal yards. These merchants provide you with fair prices for taking the metal of your hands and reintroducing it back to a useful state. Avoid landfill at all costs, it has catastrophic outcomes on the environment and will waste a highly durable substance we use everyday.
