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Recycle Steel
J B Corries are firm believers in the recycling of our steel waste. All of our unwanted steel materials are placed in a recycling bin so they can be collected, melted down and reused again and again! Please don’t throw away your old steel materials as the price of scrap steel has risen dramatically over the last few years.
Please earn yourself some extra cash and be good to the planet too by taking your unwanted steel to your nearest scrap dealer.
• Did you know?
Steel is 100 percent recyclable
50 percent of world steel production is made from scrap steel!
8,000 people are employed in the scrap industry
There is no limit to the level of steel that can be recycled and steel can be recycled repeatedly with out down grading to a lower quality product
• Did you know?
A British inventor named Henry Bessemer is generally credited with the invention of an efficient steel making process in 1856.
Malleable iron products have been around for 2000 years!
Steel is still produced today using technology based on Bessemer’s process of blowing air through molten pig iron to oxidise the material and separate impurities
• Did you know?
Worldwide, over 400 million tonnes of metal is recycled each year
In 2005 more than 76.0 million tonnes of steel around the world were recycled! Steel is the worlds most recycled material
More than 25% of a steel can contains recycled material
• Did you know?
In 2005 more than 13.0 million tonnes of steel was recycled in the UK
Recycling 1.0 ton of steel saves 1,100 kilograms of iron ore
Recycling 1.0 ton of steel saves 630 kilograms of coal
Recycling 1.0 ton of steel saves 55 kilograms of limestone
Applications
• All Steel Products
Alternatives to consider
•There is no alternative, please recycle as much as possible
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