Comments on: Bottom Drops Out of Scrap Metal Industry http://earth911.com/news/2009/04/29/bottom-drops-out-of-scrap-metal-industry/ Make Everyday Earth Day Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Liana http://earth911.com/news/2009/04/29/bottom-drops-out-of-scrap-metal-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-27957 Liana Mon, 11 May 2009 23:53:45 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=16789#comment-27957 This is more than a question. I am trying to find a recycling center around Maryland, Virginia or Washington D.C. that recycle cans' top. I am not sure if that is the right word for. Instead of saying the top of the can,can it be call the lid that is the piece on the soda can that you flip over before drinking. If you have an idea where I can contact that place, please let me know at LMChanchan@aol.com this is my e-mail. This is more than a question. I am trying to find a recycling center around Maryland, Virginia or Washington D.C. that recycle cans’ top. I am not sure if that is the right word for. Instead of saying the top of the can,can it be call the lid that is the piece on the soda can that you flip over before drinking. If you have an idea where I can contact that place, please let me know at LMChanchan@aol.com this is my e-mail.

]]> By: RecycleBill http://earth911.com/news/2009/04/29/bottom-drops-out-of-scrap-metal-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-27365 RecycleBill Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:38:39 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=16789#comment-27365 This is pretty much true of everything the recycling industry does. Metals are down because of the lack of construction and low auto sales. Plastics are down because of falling imports and paper is down because no one is buying boxes to ship anything. Being primairly in the business of recycling metals I can truly say it's tough right now. That said, it's even harder in plastics and paper. The one thing the metals market has that the other recycling industries don't have is a strong secondary market for much of what we recycle. While a used plastic bottle or piece of paper are only good for recycling, many of the items that make their way into a metals recycling center will get multiple chances. For example: I once bought and sold the same junk car 3 times before I finally crushed it. Yesterday I sold 3 junk garden tillers to a guy who repairs and resells them. And if I had a hundred junk lawn mowers I could probably sell them in a week. The junk bicycles that come in are often sold to local bicycle shops for parts or rebuilding. I resell parts from kitchen stoves, wood stoves, tools, trailers, washers, dryers, farm equipment (Need a hay bailer? Bushhog, 3 point tractor plow.....?) I'm always amazed at what I buy for scrap metal. This is pretty much true of everything the recycling industry does. Metals are down because of the lack of construction and low auto sales. Plastics are down because of falling imports and paper is down because no one is buying boxes to ship anything.

Being primairly in the business of recycling metals I can truly say it’s tough right now. That said, it’s even harder in plastics and paper.

The one thing the metals market has that the other recycling industries don’t have is a strong secondary market for much of what we recycle. While a used plastic bottle or piece of paper are only good for recycling, many of the items that make their way into a metals recycling center will get multiple chances. For example: I once bought and sold the same junk car 3 times before I finally crushed it. Yesterday I sold 3 junk garden tillers to a guy who repairs and resells them. And if I had a hundred junk lawn mowers I could probably sell them in a week. The junk bicycles that come in are often sold to local bicycle shops for parts or rebuilding. I resell parts from kitchen stoves, wood stoves, tools, trailers, washers, dryers, farm equipment (Need a hay bailer? Bushhog, 3 point tractor plow…..?) I’m always amazed at what I buy for scrap metal.

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