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Congrats to Terry Fuller! Just in time for the Big Game…Enjoy the new TV!!!

Congratulations to our January TV Giveaway Winner at our New Haven facility….Raymond Hiltunen! I had the opportunity to take a picture with the lucky winner this morning… Enjoy the TV Ray!! And everyone remember…get your scrap in throughout the short month of February…and this could be you!!!

According to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. Steel is the most recycled material both in the United States and worldwide. In the United States alone, 74 million metric tons of ferrous scrap was processed by the scrap recycling industry last year: more than 55% of the volume of all domestically processed material. Obsolete [...]

Recycling involves the processing of used materials into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production Many people are [...]

The Appliance Recycling Process Currently, there are over 11,000 locations in the United States where appliances may be delivered for recycling.  Recycling is the most widely used method of end-of-life appliance management, because of the value of the steel and other recyclable components. Listed below are the average home appliances found everyday. Major Home Appliances [...]

Clean Extrusions:   It has the appearance of having been literally “extruded”, as through a play dough press, because, well, it has, sort of. The small lines left by the extrusion process are usually obvious and run parallel to the length of the material. Other common extrusion applications are aluminum lawn chair frames, window frames; electrical [...]

Listed below are some definitions and examples of the different grades of copper insulated wire to help when sorting your wire for selling to the scrap yard. 85% Copper Insulated Wire:  Copper wire that is usually the same diameter as your pinky finger and coated with only a single coating of insulation. An example is [...]

By Mitch Hotts Macomb Daily Staff Writer Warren police on Monday arrested a man suspected of stealing three air conditioners from a business in the area of Nine Mile and Schoenherr that he planned to break down and sell the copper coils to a scrap yard. Police received word of the larceny about 1 p.m. [...]

Yesterday, we told you about the rash of thefts of historic plaques that has plagued Kent County, Metro Moncton, and many other places across North America. We also told you the thefts included the historic monument to Moncton’s original settlers at Riverfront Park. Then also yesterday came good news and bad news. That plaque is [...]

Thames Water is to coat its most valuable pipes and metal in “smart water” and spray crooks in a bid to stop an epidemic of thefts. The company admitted today that it loses £1.2 million a year to thieves taking metal from its sites. It is now planning to tag its property and is working [...]