From Guest Blogger Laura Williamson: Recycling–Turn Your Metal Junk into Gold

Your home must be littered with junk, but not all types of junk can fetch money. Metal junk like scraps, coils and other products made of metal can help you get a considerable amount of wealth. They can even add Midas touch to Mother Nature. Metal recycling can be golden both for your pocket and your surroundings.

It is an easy job; find junk, then sort out the scrap metal, finally call metal recyclers in Sydney or the ones in your city. They buy the metal scrap from you and recycle it to create metal that can be used for different manufacturing processes, and benefit the environment as well.

WHY SHOULD YOU SORT OUT THE METAL SCRAP?

Before you call the metal recycling companies, you need to have the metal scrap ready. They will not pay for all the junk, so you need to sort the metal scrap.

•        Finding the Metal Scraps:

Junk is littered in various places. You need to first sort out the metal scraps from the general junk.

Start at your own house, broken Christmas lights may have copper wires, while damaged plumbing parts can contain valuable metal.

Head over to your neighbours and houses in your locality to let them know that you can take metal scrap off their hands.

Demolition sites also have junk lying around that is full of metal scraps, but make sure that you have the permission to enter the sites. This way you will be able to collect a lot of metal scrap.

Remember that more the scrap, better the money earned.

•        Sorting the Scrap:

A good magnet and containers to keep the sorted metal scraps should be enough to start sorting the scrap into ferrous and non-ferrous category.

Sorting the scrap beforehand will help you fetch greater monetary gains.

1.   Ferrous: Any scrap that clings to the magnet is the ferrous kind of metal scrap. For example, steel and iron.
2.   Non-ferrous: The scarp that does not cling to the magnet is the non-ferrous kind. For example, copper, aluminium, brass, stainless steel and bronze.

Before you call the company to get the scrap, you must ensure that you have a reasonable amount of scrap. Trading larger amount of scrap will be much more profitable than smaller amounts of scrap.

v  WHY CONSIDER SELLING THE SCRAP FOR RECYCLING?

People tend to undermine the value of recycling metal scrap. Here are reasons why metal recycling is a great opportunity:

1. Monetary Gains:

Various recycling plants and scrap yards offer collection services for your metal scrap. These companies not only collect scrap from you, but also pay for the different types of metal scrap, from copper to brass.

Some companies also offer door-to-door collection services, including bin installation for companies that produce higher amount of metal scrap.

Monetary gains will depend on the type and amount of metal you are selling as prices vary from metal to metal.

2.                Saving Mother Nature:

Earth is littered with various types of pollutant; metal waste is an example of that. When you send the metal scraps for recycling you are helping save nature.

1.      By reducing the amount of metal pollutant in nature
2.      Recycling helps produce ready-to-use metal so mining for natural ores is reduced significantly, as requirement for metal is met by the recycled metal
3.      This will reduce the production of new metal from natural ores, saving water and energy resources as production of new metal involves huge amount of water and energy resources.
4.      Reducing new metal production from ores also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

So, if you can sort out the metal scraps from your junk and recycle it, you not only earn extra money, but also get to do your part in making the planet a healthier place to live in. You also help create ready-to-use metal that can be used to manufacture products of daily use.