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How to Sort Scrap Metal

Selling scrap metal can be a great way to supplement your income, or you can do it full time. Before you can sell your scrap metal to a scrap yard, you need to separate the different metals in your scrap. A scrap magnet will help you...

What can be recycled?

There's a long list of things that can be recycled and sold as scrap metal. Find out what recyclable summer items you can sell and see what we buy.

Here's How to Price Scrap Metal

Learn about the steps necessary to price scrap metal properly, including tips on identification and market resources.

How Is Scrap Metal Consumed?

Scrap metal can serve a variety of purposes for both public and private sectors. Reusing this versatile material is a great way to do your part for the environment while helping someone else get new use out of an old material. Keep reading to learn more about how scrap metal is used and how it …

Quick Tips for Scrapping

If you are looking for money-making quick tips for scrapping, you have come to the right place. The iScrap App team shows you some tips for your metals.

Trash Tutorial: Sorting bound paper in R.I.'s Materials Recycling Facility

Sheets of paper sort out more easily in our system, but we don’t expect you to spend your weekends tearing out magazine pages, one-by-one. Just

Why Recycle Scrap Metal?

The U.S. scrap recycling industry is sophisticated, capital-intensive and the first link in the manufacturing supply chain, with more than 150 million tons of recyclable metal...

Where does your recycled scrap metal go?

Wondering what happens to scrap metal once it is handed off to Elgin Recycling? You can rest assured it is put back to good use.

36 Recycled Scrap Metal Into Furniture Project Ideas

Here are 36 different ways to recycle scrap metal into cool furniture and other items. Many times certain pieces or parts of machinery, cars, tools, frames, and other items get old, worn out, or used up. These parts and pieces often go to the landfill or a metal recycling facility. Instead of throwing them away, …

Frequently Asked Questions about Scrap Metal Recycling

The following are some of the most frequently asked questions regarding recycling of scrap metals and their corresponding answers.

Which is Better, Extracting Metal or Recycling Scrap Metal?

Recycling metal or salvaging scrap metal and selling to the recyclers can be a great income source. Recycling is less expensive than extracting metal, needs less energy, and helps in saving fuel.

A materials dead end? The unraveling of the recycling cycle

The materials recycling status of plastics is dire—glass recycling has to be better...right? A daunting look at the current state of recycling.

Don’t Give Precious Metals Away when Recycling Scrap

Gold, platinum, silver and rhodium are called precious metals because they are valuable. You already knew that! Yet some people toss them away anyway. Here are some tips that can prevent you from literally giving them away without realizing it.

Where do your recyclables end up? You might be surprised

Material recycled in Lancaster gets new life in many products.

How Much Gold Can Be Recycled from Scrap Electronic Pins?

Old computer central processing units (CPUs) look like porcupines – they’re covered with little spikes that serve as electrical contacts when the CPU is plugged into a computer’s motherboard. The difference between a porcupine and a CPU is that all those little “quills” are gold-plated and can be wo

Should We Recycle Recycling?

Amy Westervalt suggests that in the US, it may be time to rethink how we recycle by burning plastic waste and putting recycling on manufacturers.

Meaning of Recycling Symbols

Recycling symbols indicate whether an item can be recycled, how to dispose it, or if is made of recycled material - we need to know the difference.