The scrap metal industry has evolved to the point where almost any kind of scrap metal can be recycled. It's all about economics and profitability. Metals recycling is cheaper than digging up and processing new ores. The bottom line needs to also apply to plastics.
Forbes: "We've Pretty Much Solved the Metals Recycling Problem"....
"Thus we can ship old Soviet nuclear alloy off to be made into car wheels. And everyone profits from this, the original owners of the scrap, we middlemen who worked out how to do this and the people making those aluminium alloys who get cheaper inputs.The scrap metal industry is full of these sorts of little quirks and business jinks. For it is a relatively mature industry and we’ve had the time to work out how to deal with almost all of the things that we produce out of metal in the first place."full story >
Columbian Company Pioneers Metal Recycling in Latin America
Still a newer market than other countries, Latin America has opportunities for metals recycling that also help the environment and generate profits at the same time."Colombia's Ingerecuperar has developed a new process to turn hazardous waste from metallurgy and incineration into raw materials for cement, aluminum and resins, becoming a pioneer in Latin America in recycling metal residues."
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provided courtesy of Talway Recycling Corp.
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