Recycle Metal Sheets

When recycling steel you save 1 115 kg of iron ore 625 kg of coal and 53 kg of limestone from the current stockpiles.

Recycle metal sheets.

Even if that metal is surrounded by other materials like plastic it s worth recycling if it s made mostly out of metal. The copper and alumimun sheet is uncoated. Your energy savings are 95 for aluminum 85 for copper 65 for lead and 60 for zinc. When you recycle a ton of aluminum you save up to 5 tons of bauxite.

Metal products design. You also get energy savings for various metals when you recycle. The colored aluminum foil is red green blue copper tone or gold on one side. We stock a large portion of the structural steel galvanized aluminum and copper products made.

This sheet metal may have scratches folds dents tape residue finger prints and or water spots. Any items we do not stock can usually be ordered in less than a week. Or you can place them inside and squeeze middle of the can shut so they can t get out. To help the recycling center out be sure to keep tabs attached to the soda can.

If you have products with only a small amount of metal but it s easy to remove separate the metal. Metal recycling preparation with scrap metal the general rule is a product needs to be at least 50 percent metal.