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scrap metal

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scrap metal

Used metals that are an important source of industrial metals and alloys, particularly in the production of steel, copper, lead, aluminum, and zinc. Smaller amounts of tin, nickel, magnesium, and precious metals are also recovered from scrap. Impurities consisting of such organic materials as wood, plastic, paint, and fabric can be burned off. Scrap is usually blended and remelted to produce alloys similar to or more complex than those from which the scrap was derived. See also recycling.
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Because scrap metal is holding its high price, it is no wonder dealers are speculating to accumulate with the non ferrous.
We need scrap metal detectors by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
West Midlands Police arrested the men as part of Operation Steel, a campaign launched to clamp down on the rise in metal theft, which is believed to have been spurred on by high scrap metal prices.
Warning to keg thieves; CRIME: We'll sue over thefts, warn beer firms by Birmingham Mail (England)
SCRAP metal thieves have stolen the remains of a disposed bomb.
Remains of bomb stolen by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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