It’s that time of the year again; getting ready to settle in for a long winter’s nap as temperatures cool down. But it also means doing that final cleaning with the windows open before everything is buttoned up for the season. With that comes a great purge of unused items that have been piling up for more months than you would care to mention. If cleaning out your basement, garage, or shed is part of your to-do list, don’t forget to recycle rather than throw away.…
When it comes to scrap value, copper has one of the highest. Copper scrap is infinitely reusable, so recycling it is great for the environment – it’s much easier to melt down copper than it is to extract it from the earth, which helps save on overall global energy use.
Unfortunately, copper scrap can be rather difficult to find. Copper pipes are the best source of copper, but it’s rare for people to throw them out.…
Every year, eight million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean. That is a mind-boggling number, to be sure. Of that eight million metric tons, 236,000 tons is microplastic, tiny bits of plastic that many people think are not a big deal if tossed into the ocean or accidentally dropped in the water. Perhaps what is really distressing is that all of that plastic could have been recycled. Scrap plastic recycling services exist nearly everywhere in the world.…
