Why Recycle
Recycling of non-ferrous metals saves natural resources and energy while helping the environment. It includes the recycling of metals includes aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and tin – and precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum. Non-ferrous metals do not degrade or lose their chemical properties in the recycling process, which allows them to be recycled an infinite number of times.
More than 60 percent of the aluminum consumed by U.S. mills comes from scrap.
Manufacturing products from recycled aluminum saves up to 95 percent of the energy needed to manufacture them from virgin materials.
Nonferrous metal scrap only accounts for around 10 percent of the volume of all recyclables in the United States but generates about half of the value of U.S. scrap recycling in dollar terms due to their high per unit prices.
The United States exported $10.6 billion worth of non-ferrous scrap (including precious metal scrap) in 2019 to more than 95 countries.
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