Benefits of Recycling Scrap Metal
Most people have old metal items lying around the house, accumulating dust and taking up space. Whether it is a tool you’ve updated and replaced, leftover piping from a plumbing project, or just the day to day growth of used up housewares and appliances, everyone has them. On top of that, many canning techniques commonly used for food preservation also create an excess of metal waste.
While most people understand that recycling is a way to reduce their environmental impact, when it comes to metal recycling many people are not fully aware of how tremendous the economic and environmental benefits can be.
1. Economic Benefits
There are a few key ways that recycling helps everyone in the economic chain, including:
- Metal recycling employs 36 times more people than incineration or the landfill dumping of metal products does.
- Excess scrap metal provides a source of income for homeowners looking to consolidate, renovate, and/or restructure their belongings.
- Recycled metal entering the marketplace competes with new metal refined from ore to produce a balance point and keep prices from being excessively inflated.
2. Environmental Benefits
On top of the reduction of waste to landfills, metal recycling also reduces the demand for newly mined ore and refined metals by providing an alternative source, ensuring that accessible raw materials come at the lowest environmental cost possible. Scrap metal recycling has many benefits that you should take advantage of, so visit Bruce Metal & Salvage in Santa Ana to get started today.
