Scrap Metal: Throughout the ages, man has been recycling metals by melting and reusing them. A visit to
almost any industrial area in the country will demonstrate that the scrap business is alive and well.
You'll notice scrap processors (scrap facilities or scrap yards) where the scrap metal is piled high
cranes are lifting and sorting the metals, and trucks are hauling the scrap metal in and out of the
facilities. Recycling metal is important because it creates big business.
Continue reading 
Comments (0) 18.04.2007. 10:28
Scrap Plastics: "This is a new-to-the-world industry with
huge energy savings.
Recycling plastics uses
only roughly 10 percent
of the energy that it
takes to make a pound
of plastic from virgin
materials" -
Dr. Mike Biddle
President
MBA Polymers
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 11:01
Steel Recycling: Rest assured that any steel container or product you buy is made, in part, with recycled material. Steel has been recycled since long before it was called “recycling.” The two processes used for making steel today require a minimum of 25 percent recycled content.
Continue reading Comments (135) 17.04.2007. 10:16
Aluminium Recycling: The environmental benefits of aluminum recycling are enormous. Fortunately, so are the economic benefits. The advent of the aluminum beverage can in the 1960s helped spur the development of community recycling programs. Markets fluctuate over time, but traditionally the high market value of scrap aluminum has generated enough income to allow recycling programs to pay for other, less lucrative recycling services.
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 10:09
Glass Recycling: Glass is the least finite of the non-renewable natural resources targeted by community recycling programs. Glass is made from abundant and cheap materials – sand, limestone and potash – but recycling glass still reduces pollution, conserves landfill space and reduces energy consumption.
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 09:02
Newsprint/Paper/Paperboard Recycling: Paper products are the single biggest component of the municipal solid waste stream, making up 38.1 percent of the material landfilled in the United States. Effective paper recycling efforts can help conserve landfill space and natural resources and preserve biological diversity by reducing the call to harvest timber from wild areas.
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 08:57
Post-consumer plastic recycling was barely an issue when Ohio’s solid waste management system was set up in the late 1980s. But the use of plastic in packaging has skyrocketed, and recycling has had a hard time keeping up.
As of 1999, only 5.6 percent of plastics discarded in the United States were recovered for recycling.
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 07:57
Introduction: The average passenger car tire measures about 26 inches across, but take away just a quarter-inch of tread and it becomes an accident waiting to happen.
The United States, like the rest of the industrialized world, goes through a lot of tires. Approximately one tire is discarded per person each year.
Continue reading Comments (0) 17.04.2007. 07:34
