Advantages of metal recycling
>> Friday, August 28, 2009
According to a recent survey, more than 150 million metric tons of various types of scrap materials are being recycled each year. Out of this 150 million metric tons scrap materials, metal scraps comprise of the majority of them. The time has come when metal recycling activities have become an essentiality to make our planet a safer place to live in.
As per the recent study, the following list is the quantity of scrap materials recycled every year.
81.6 million tons of steel and iron scraps
50 million tons of paper scraps
5 million ton aluminum scraps
1.8 million ton copper scraps
2 million ton stainless steel scraps
1.3 million ton lead
420,000 tons zinc
576,000 tons of plastic scraps
1.8 million tons of electronic scraps
Metal recycling is also very important as it is a versatile material that is being used in making a wide range of products that include cars, ships, household appliances, trucks, airplanes, railway tracks, ovens and many other items of daily usage. One of the advantageous features of metals is that they can be recycled several times without compromising with the properties and the qualities of the metals. Metals are one of the most valuable commodities and when metal items come to their end they can be molded into whole new items after carrying out recycling activities. Steel together with aluminum are mostly used for everyday household usage and they are used in making food cans and drinks cans.
One of the most important advantages of metal recycling is its benefits to the environment of our planet. Metal recycling could drastically decrease the utilization of natural resources. It also helps to reduce the several types of pollutions which are currently prevalent in our planet Earth. Air pollution and water pollution have decreased with the increasing recycling plants in various countries of the world. Moreover, metal recycling is also a better solution for creating metal items than producing a whole new range of metals.
The production of metal items by recycling process also costs very less than the production of virgin metal items. The recycling plants also offer employment opportunities to a large number of employed peoples and it has become one of the major industries of the world. There is a lot of detailed information available online on scrap recycling and you could get a whole range of scrap buyers and sellers through it.
