| The environment is something of a hot topic | | | | When people think of recycling, they tend to |
| at the moment, with growing pressures both | | | | think of some chemical or mechanised process |
| politically and socially to act up to our | | | | whereby a recycling plant takes some old and |
| responsibilities to the planet and its | | | | turns it in to something completely new, |
| ongoing conservation. After decades, even | | | | suitable for reuse ad ready for sale. We also |
| centuries of pollution and mindless resource | | | | tend to think of this as an environmentally |
| depletion, we are now at a stage where far | | | | friendly practice, but we're never really |
| more caution must be exercised in the way we | | | | told why. In fact, recycling can be the |
| live our lives. Of course business and | | | | process of melting scrap metals for resale, |
| commerce can't simply halt for the sake of | | | | but it can also be put under the heading of |
| the planet, and hence the process of | | | | what your average scrap dealer will do when |
| recycling resources has become more and more | | | | he sells a piece of metal on to someone else. |
| prominent over the last few years, | | | | Recycling can be defined as reusing in any |
| particularly in the scrap metal trade which | | | | sense of the word, which is environmentally |
| has been buoyed as a result. In this article | | | | friendly for one key reason - the more scrap |
| we'll look at why scrap metal recycling is | | | | metal reintroduced into circulation, the less |
| good for the environment and why it should be | | | | metal that has to be manufactured. |
| encouraged at any cost. | | | | |
| | | | Manufacturing metal is by its very nature |
| Scrap metal starts out life as any other | | | | environmentally intensive, creating toxic |
| metal material. It is built for a purpose and | | | | fumes and a certain amount of wastage that's |
| is often reserved for that specific use, be | | | | anything but kind to the planet. As we cut |
| it in building or construction, machinery, | | | | down the amount of manufacturing going on we |
| technology or agriculture, where it will | | | | cut out some of the pollution and waste that |
| remain forever more in an ideal world. | | | | wreaks havoc on the earth, yet we fill in the |
| However, what happens when that machine | | | | void created by recycled scrap metal. With |
| breaks down, or the building is demolished to | | | | scrap metal just as usable as fresh metal and |
| make way for some newer construction project? | | | | far less environmentally taxing, it makes |
| The metal from there becomes scrap, unwanted | | | | sense to promote the trade and use of scrap |
| and many look to simply get rid of it out of | | | | in manufacturing processes, rather than to |
| their hands, usually by visiting a scrap | | | | continually produce more and more fresh |
| metal dealer who will buy different bits of | | | | material at the expense of the environment. |
| metal for money. So what's the big idea about | | | | For this reason, recycling scrap metal is |
| recycling then? | | | | both cost effective for the buyer, and |
| | | | environmentally friendly all round. |