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from: Metal Recycling CentersMetal Recycling Centers are the places where all our recyclables wind up after they're thrown in the trash or dumpster. Recycling is a very important process in our world today as we continue our quest to "go green" and save our environment. Recycling helps the environment because it allows us to conserve energy, save money preserve our many landfills. This is a job everyone should take seriously as the atmosphere we help clean up today will provide our children and grandchildren with a safe and pollution-free world in which to live.
Whether you live in the city or out in the country, there will be some sort of metal recycling centers in or near your location. People living in the country often use dumpsters that are dropped off and picked up by a waste management company that, in turn, takes it to the nearest metal recycling centers where it goes through the entire recycling process until it is ready to be used for the production of new metals.
By recycling our garbage and other waste materials, we're all doing our part in keeping our environment clean and helping to eliminate the pollution that seems to be everywhere. For years, children have been collecting aluminum pop cans and saving them until they had enough to turn into to their local metal recycling centers. Here they would get what they considered as extra spending money. People are still doing this today but with more than just their aluminum soda cans.
Many people are not aware that they can recycle more than just metal. Recycling centers talk almost all kinds of materials. Items that you would normally throw out as garbage can be taken to metal recycling centers where they'll be turned into workable materials. Metal recycling centers pay money for automotive parts, pots and pans, appliances, batteries, aluminum ladders, catalytic converters, stainless steel, bronze and copper.
When recyclables are picked up from sites and brought to metal recycling centers, they go through a complete process starting with sorting the items. They are sorted according to their material. Steel is broken down into ferrous and non-ferrous metal; soda cans are sorted by the use of magnet to determine whether they are aluminum or non-aluminum. After they are sorted into their respective group, they get shredded into smaller pieces that can be fit in the palm of your hand. An interesting fact is that a car can be shredded into the size of your fist in approximately 6 minutes.
Once the metal recycling centers shred the items, they are then put into furnaces that melt them down into the "new" steel or metal, which makes them ready for the production of new recyclables products once again.
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Styrofoam recycling options limited - Waste Management World
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Biddeford to revisit recycling - Biddeford Journal Tribune
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Group alleges industry influenced DEP's mercury recycling report - Lewiston Sun Journal
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Bridge section gone as history is rebuilt - Foster's Daily Democrat
Bridge section gone as history is rebuilt Foster's Daily Democrat By ANDREA BULFINCH PORTSMOUTH — With the view from Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, points altered by the removal of the Memorial Bridge lift span Wednesday evening, the two-million pound portion of the bridge remains at the state pier, its temporary ... |
Niles Community Calendar for Feb. 16, 2012 - Niles Herald-Spectator
Niles Community Calendar for Feb. 16, 2012 Niles Herald-Spectator A recycling bin for used CFLs will also be available. CFLs may be purchased at Feldman Park, 8800 Kathy Lane, Niles, 8:30 am-10:30 pm Call (847) 297-3000. The Golf Maine Park District offers the community an opportunity to recycle paper products. Park Ridge Community Calendar for Feb. 16, 2012 Morton Grove Community Calendar for Feb. 16, 2012 |