How to Recycle Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals
This guest blog was originally published on the Rubicon Blog. It was written by Jackie Beason, Director of Commodity Sales.
Scrap metal is one of the most sought-after commodities in recycling, and the reason is of little surprise when you consider how much energy is saved when you recycle metal versus mining new metal ores.
When it comes to aluminum, for example, recycling scrap aluminum requires just five percent of the energy needed to produce virgin aluminum, and copper recycling is almost as efficient, with the copper recycling process requiring just 10-15 percent of the energy needed to mine the earth for new copper ore.
At Rubicon Global, we’ve written at length about different metal recycling processes, and in this blog post I want to focus on the difference between ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and the best…