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  2. Aluminum Can Prices: Are They Still Worth Collecting?

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    Aluminum can prices vary by region and are based on weight. The average recycling value per pound of cans in the U.S. is currently $0.56. How many aluminum cans are in a pound?

  3. Tire recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, a toxic fire at Wade Dump, a rubber recycling facility in Chester, Pennsylvania, burned out of control for several days and resulted in 43 injured firefighters and criminal charges for the owner of the site. First responders to the fire suffered long-term health consequences and higher than normal cancer rates.

  4. Aluminium recycling - Wikipedia

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    It involves re-melting the metal, which is cheaper and more energy-efficient than the production of virgin aluminium by electrolysis of alumina (Al 2 O 3) refined from raw bauxite by use of the Bayer and Hall–Héroult processes. Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore. [2]

  5. Everyday Items That You Can Recycle for Money - AOL

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    Yellow brass can yield about $2.00 per pound, and die-cast metal goes in the 77-cents-a-pound range, though prices vary by region. Don’t overlook old tools as a source of metal scrapping. Some ...

  6. Wrecking yard - Wikipedia

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    A scrapyard is a recycling center that buys and sells scrap metal. Scrapyards are effectively a scrap metal brokerage. [1] They typically buy any base metal. For example, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead would all be found at a modern-day scrapyard. Scrapyards will often buy electronics, appliances ...

  7. List of aluminium smelters - Wikipedia

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    Century Aluminum USA: Massena: 135,000: Alcoa - Massena Operations USA: New Madrid: 263,000: Magnitude7Metals [23] previously Noranda Aluminum, now owned by Swiss-based Granges [24] Curtailed January 2024 USA: Hawesville: 250,000: Century Aluminum of Kentucky LLC: Curtailed 7/2022 USA: Ferndale: 279,000: Alcoa - Intalco Aluminum Corp. Curtailed ...

  8. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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    Recycling is via a steelworks: scrap is either remelted in an electric arc furnace (90-100% scrap), or used as part of the charge in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (around 25% scrap). [20] Any grade of steel can be recycled to top quality new metal, with no 'downgrading' from prime to lower quality materials as steel is recycled repeatedly. 42% of ...

  9. Scrap - Wikipedia

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    The metal recycling industry encompasses a wide range of metals. The more frequently recycled metals are scrap steel, iron (ISS), lead , aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and zinc. Steel [ 10 ] is the most recycled due to its sustainable properties.