Actually, to recycle metal should not be considered an environmentally friendly new thing that people have recently thought up. True, it did not happen in the Stone Age, but from the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age and so on, knowledgeable people have recognized the effort and cost put into anything made of metal and seen the value in recycling as much of it as practical.
Waste Not Want Not
Not all that long ago, people tended, not so much to think that the Earth’s store of new metal was infinite, more that it would never actually run out so why bother overmuch with making the effort to recycle metal. Today, most of us can see the flaws in that thinking. Not only that supply will run out but, what about the costs involved in extracting, refining and processing the remaining metals? Hence the current push to recycle as much as possible.
Additionally, prior to the Industrial Revolution, our consumption of metal was relatively low. The Industrial Revolution changed all this and led to the creation of automobiles, conspicuous consumption and planned obsolescence. Needless to say, demand for metals grew in leaps and bounds. Naturally, this tended to increase the price for new metals. This also raises the question of – “if we do not recycle metal, where do we dump the metal we no longer wish to use?”
Everyone Plays A Part In Generating Scrap Metal
Whenever you pop the tab on a beer or soda can, what do you do with the now useless can? You should be thinking how can I get this can recycled? The same applies to all types of canned food. When we declare our automobile to have become a so called “junk car”, we know that it should be possible to get some money for it from a scrap dealer. The same principle applies on a much smaller scale to the stored value of our used drinks cans, etc. Maybe it is not practical to search out a scrap metal yard and try to sell them a single empty can but, it is possible to (one way or another) collect many cans together and deliver them in bulk to a metal recycler. The store that gives you a dime for every empty can you shove into their compacting machine will certainly be selling them on to somebody.
Located in Newark NJ, the firm of H&C Metals can arrange to Recycle Metal of just about any type whether it be industrial or domestic scrap.
