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Practical Reasons to Sell Scrap Metal for Recycling
Admin • Jul 22, 2020
Many people have or can get hold of some scrap metal. If you belong to that group, get the metal to a scrap dealer as soon as possible. You will benefit both yourself and the community. Below are some specific reasons to sell all the scrap metal you can get to recyclers.
To Make Money
For many people, money is the top reason to sell scrap metals. Below are some of the factors that determine how much you can get from scrap metal sales:.
- Type of metal
- Weight of the metal you have
- Supply and demand for scrap metal
- Condition of your scrap metal
Most buyers of scrap metals post their prices online. You can check to confirm how much to expect from your scrap metal collection.
To Reclaim Space
Money is not the only reason to sell your scrap metal. If you have lots of metal at home, you can sell them to free up space for other things. Maybe you have a lot of metal because:
- Your children have moved out of the home
- You collected metal throughout the years
- You want to downsize your home
Sell the metal, make money, and free up space for other things, such as storage.
To Conserve the Environment
You also benefit the environment if you sell scrap metal. Below are some of the specific environmental benefits.
Energy Conservation
Metal producers often spend more energy to recycle metals than to produce virgin metal from metal ores. Recycled copper can consume up to 90%
less energy than virgin copper. Thus, you help the world conserve energy when you sell scrap metal.
Resource Conservation
Energy is not the only thing you conserve when you help to recycle metal. The metal production process, from mining to purification, requires other resources, such as:
- Chemicals
- Water
- Rocks and soil (during mining
You conserve these resources when you sell scrap metal for recycling.
Landfill Space
Most products end up in the landfill if someone does not recycle them. The debris in landfills occupies valuable land that others can use for other things. Sell scrap metal to help free up the landfills.
Pollution
Like many industrial processes, the production process for metal pollutes the environment. The chemicals, gases, and wastes from the production process are not good. Recycling metals produces less pollution than the production processes for virgin metal. Environmental pollution would considerably reduce if everyone recycled metal products.
To Boost the Economy
You also boost the economy when you sell scrap metals. The metal recycling industry employs multiple people. For example, the recycling industry needs people to:
- Collect metal
- Sort metal
- Process the collected metal
The above are just some of the people who directly work with recycled metal. Others, such as salespeople, drivers, accountants, and others who provide logistics support, also benefit. The U.S. scrap industry
had over 150,000 direct jobs and 323,000 indirect jobs by 2015, and the industry continues to grow.
To Keep Metal Prices Low
Lastly, recycling metal products also helps to keep the prices of metal and metal prices reasonable. As previously mentioned, recycled metal requires fewer resources than virgin metal. Metal producers pass some of these benefits to end consumers. Metal prices could skyrocket if people stopped selling scrap metal.
You benefit everyone if you sell scrap metal to recyclers. Big Daddy Scrap provides a convenient process for everyone who has scrap metal to sell. Contact us
today so that we can give you a quote and buy the scrap metal in your possession. We look forward to meeting and speaking with you and helping you earn cash for your scrap metal.
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