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The Many Benefits of Scrap Metal Recycling
Global industries are looking for more sustainable solutions to achieve their growth goals, which include tackling environmental challenges and reducing their carbon footprint.
As such, scrap metal recycling has emerged as one of the most sought after solutions.
At ARM Metal Recycling, we provide numerous benefits through recycling scrap metal and providing top quality products for growth.
Recycling scrap metal has many benefits, mainly from the reduction in waste, but also a decrease in energy consumption.
In this article we will be talking about how important it is for industries to understand how recycling scrap metal works, so they can protect our environment while the demand for sustainability rises.
The Environmental Benefits of Recycling Scrap Metal
Scrap metal recycling brings with it a plethora of benefits to the different sectors that inhabit our daily lives.
Let’s start with the most important of them all, the environment.
Reduced Energy Use
Mining and producing virgin metals has extremely damaging ecological and social effects. Producing new metals not only requires a large amount of energy, but it can also have environmentally disastrous effects. Since extracting, hauling and smelting metal ores requires a large amount of energy, industries are switching to the lower-consumption alternative in scrap metal recycling. Aluminium recycling alone saves 95% of the energy required to produce new aluminium from bauxite ore.
Reduction of Landfill Waste
Nowadays, landfills are becoming dumping sites for unnecessary metal scraps that can easily be recycled. Rather than having metals stay in landfills for hundreds of years to break down, scrap metal recycling companies take these materials and turn them into working outputs. It reduces waste and promotes an advanced approach to waste management. Furthermore, some metals are toxic and will leak poisonous chemicals into the ground and water. They need to be recycled responsibly and separately for environmental protection.
Lower Carbon Footprint
A much smaller quantity of gas emissions occur while recycling steel, copper, and aluminium vs. manufacturing from raw ores. Scrap metal recycling helps in reducing a company’s carbon footprint by lessening the need for raw materials and the processes that are energy-intensive. For example, recycling steel can save up to 1.787 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of recycled steel used.
Scrap Metal Recycling and Circular Economy
Often people tend to look solely at the environmental benefits of scrap metal recycling, but there are also economic benefits. Since scrap metal is cheaper than extracting new metals, manufacturers are attracted to the prospect of cutting their costs. Recycling scrap metal not only helps with cutting production costs, but also provides employment opportunities.
For these reasons, scrap metal recycling plays an important role in the circular economy.
Since recycling metal helps maximize available resources, materials are constantly reused, refurbished, and recycled. When manufacturers employ recycled waste metal to create new items, they help to keep resources moving.
This action decreases environmental impact and optimizes resource utilization.
As a result, it helps to ensure the long-term growth of industries. Furthermore, using recycled metals in production enables businesses to better meet consumer demands.
Moving Forward
Our planet is edging towards an unprecedented environmental catastrophe, and we need to act. From climate change to depleting natural resources, the pressure on our environment and subsequently on us, is immense. Scrap metal recycling is vital in providing sustainable solutions, infrastructure building, energy-efficient manufacturing, and renewable energy generation. At ARM Metal Recycling, we’re proud to collaborate with businesses, contractors, and individuals across the UAE to prevent valuable materials from going to waste.
Every scrap of metal we recycle helps to reduce energy use, the environmental effect, and support industries that drive progress.
New Copper Granulator Machine
As part of the vision to be a world class provider of recycling services, ARM Metal Recycling is proud to announce the addition of its new copper granulator machine.
“In the scrap metal recycling industry, copper is the metal that generates the most revenue for scrap yards.
Copper’s high ductility, or ability to be formed into wire, makes it valuable in a way that many metals are not,” said Ammar Shtaiwi, Managing Director of ARM Metal Recycling.
End-stage copper that arrives at the yard needs processing before it’s ready to be sold and put back into use.
That’s where the addition of the copper wire granulator machine became a vital addition to ARM’s operations, added Ammar.
The working process of the copper wire granulator machine is roughly divided into 3 main parts:
- Feeding: The granulator starts with scrap copper wire, almost all of which will be insulated. When you’re dealing in high volume scrap wires, you can trust the granulator to do the work. You’ll simply feed the wiring, insulation, and all, into the granulator. Using a belt conveyor to feed will make it much more efficient.
- Shredding: Once scrap wires or cables are fed in, the cable granulator will get to work. Scrap cables will be chopped into plastic pieces and copper granules. ARM’s integrated copper cable granulator is used for recycling automotive wires, communication cables, and other types of miscellaneous wires and cables. The diameter of feeding scrap cables can be below 20 mm. For a single conductor with a diameter of 0.3–20 mm, the machine performs best.
- Separation: Now comes the work of separating the valuable copper from the plastic waste. This is an important step, With bad-quality machines, recyclers could lose nearly 15 percent of their copper to being incorrectly sorted as waste. That’s tantamount to throwing money away. But no worries, the copper recycling rate of our copper wire granulator machine is no less than 99%, which can guarantee the quality of copper.
“The addition of the new copper wire granulator is a game changer for us,” said CEO Hasan Zakaria. “The end result is a stronger product offering for customers.”