{"id":1445,"date":"2020-12-28T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:01:17","slug":"commonly-recycled-scrap-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/blog\/commonly-recycled-scrap-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Commonly Recycled Scrap Metal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that steel is the most commonly recycled metal used on the planet? It is found in automobiles, home furnishings, and everyday food packaging.\u00a0 Steel is also used in huge industrial projects as well, such as bridge construction, commercial buildings, and pipelines.\u00a0 The overall steel recycling rate in 2014 for construction was 98 percent for structural and 71 percent for reinforcement steels.\u00a0 Through recycling, end-of-life products and structures can be made into new, raw materials with no degradation of its properties.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Incentives to Recycle Scrap Metal<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people are motivated by the financial incentives when it comes to recycling scrap metals.\u00a0 Value can range greatly from metal to metal, copper being one of the most valuable.\u00a0 The overall mission for recycling however, is to preserve natural resources while requiring less energy to create new products.\u00a0 This offers a lower carbon footprint by emitting fewer dangerous gasses and less carbon dioxide.\u00a0 Recycling can also cut down on production costs for manufacturing businesses while carving out room for new job opportunities within the companies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Some interesting facts about recycling steel:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 100 million steel and tin cans are used every single day in the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 18,000 curbside, drop-off and buyback programs accept steel cans which provides 160 million American consumers with access to steel can recycling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recycled steel makes up just about 40 percent of worldwide steel production.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Close to 42 percent of crude steel in the United States is made of recycled components.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steel makes up 95 percent of the recycling rate of automobiles, 70 percent recycling rate of steel packaging, and 88 percent recycling rate of appliances.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Can we move to using 100% recycled steel?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As important as it is to use recycled steel, it is actually necessary to continue to use some quantities of virgin materials.\u00a0 This is because so many steel structures and products stay durable and in use for many decades at a time.\u00a0 This creates ongoing steel demand for new materials.\u00a0 The sources for steel scrap continue to be plentiful.\u00a0 It surrounds us in our everyday lives.\u00a0 From our home appliances and fixtures, to the buildings we work in and the bridges we drive over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does your Arizona business create steel waste?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Give <a href=\"\/\">Consolidated Resources Inc<\/a> a call at <a href=\"tel:6239315009\">(623) 931-5009<\/a> and we\u2019ll show you how you can efficiently recycle your scrap metal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Article Resources:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelsustainability.org\/recycling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.steelsustainability.org\/recycling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalancesmb.com\/an-introduction-to-metal-recycling-4057469#:~:text=Metals%20can%20be%20recycled%20repeatedly,silver%2C%20brass%2C%20and%20gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.thebalancesmb.com\/an-introduction-to-metal-recycling-4057469#:~:text=Metals%20can%20be%20recycled%20repeatedly,silver%2C%20brass%2C%20and%20gold<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that steel is the most commonly recycled metal used on the planet? It is found in automobiles, home furnishings, and everyday food packaging.\u00a0 Steel is also used in huge industrial projects as well, such as bridge construction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,39],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-metal-waste","category-steel-recycling","tag-steel-recycling-facts"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consolidatedresources.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}