Scrap Steel

Try to buy the exact amount of metal needed, reducing the potential for scrap and waste.

Try to reuse as much of the scrap metal as possible on other projects.

Can be recycled at: Kerbside: no Bring Sites: no Battlefield HRC: Yes

Recycling Process:

There are currently about 11million tonnes per year of iron and steel scrap arisings. About 70% of this scrap is recovered. Of the remainder - 2/3 is landfilled.

The iron ore is stripped in a blast furnace to reduce it to pig iron that can then be used in steel production. Although present in smaller quantities - all metals including nickel, copper, silver, gold, lead, brass and more, can be recycled. Given their recognised value a smaller quantity of these metals are in circulation however with reliance on these metals by specific industries eg electronics their presence is often neglected when householders dispose of items.