While industrial metal recycling has improved immensely over the last couple of decades, metal recovery facilities (MRFs) can still do more. This is especially true regarding the separation of valuable metals from mixed waste streams. Thus, metal recovery facilities continue to invest heavily in the most innovative metal separation solutions to recover higher levels of marketable metal grades. Moreover, MRFs closely collaborate with hi-tech manufacturers to develop breakthrough equipment that decreases the amount of unrecovered waste metal in landfills.…
Document shredding is mandatory for businesses dealing with sensitive information that should never get into the wrong hands. Shredding your documents can help prevent identity theft cases. However, since shredded documents cannot be used to make new paper, most businesses end up throwing and burning shredded records in landfills. Even if the paper is a biodegradable material, there are better ways to dispose of shredded documents than dumping them in landfills.…
In matters of recyclable materials, metal takes the medal. You can recycle and reuse scrap metal countless times. The thing is, most people do not know how valuable waste metal is, so they leave it lying in their yard. Those who know are making money by selling it to scrap metal recycling companies. However, it all depends on the type of metal it is.
Generally, non-ferrous metals like aluminium are more valuable than pure ones, which have iron.…
