recycling centers
Metal Recycling : Aluminum And Steel Cans
Every year thousands of tons of trash is poured into landfills. Though we are in no immediate danger of running short on landfill space, this is expensive in terms of time, space, and energy invested, along with the sheer waste of materials that will not ever be used again.
With that in mind, consider the reasons below for keeping your steel and aluminum cans out of landfill sites by recycling them instead.
– Aluminum that has been recycled is back in use again within a couple of months. On the other hand, it would take 200-500 years for that same to break down naturally in a landfill.
- Metal cans can be recycled for cash at lots of places. Several states offer five cents for each can given to them, and some recycling centers offer between fifty cents and two dollars per pound of cans recycled.
- There are multiple can-crushing machines on the market, including some that can be made at home for almost no cost. This removes the a commonly used excuse that recycling cans takes up too much space.
– Recycled steel and aluminum are no different in composition from ‘new’ aluminum and steel. Recycled metals are just melted down and mixed into lots to make new products.
– The United States presently uses steel that is more than 65 percent recycled. This is a good start, but it could definitely be higher. Significant further progress would be made if more people were aware that they can recycle their steel cans.
– The 100,000,000 ‘new’ steel cans produced on a daily basis consist of 25% recycled materials. That equates to 25 million reclaimed cans versus 75 million completely new cans. If more people recycled, that number could easily jump to 50-50 and a huge amount of resources and energy would be saved.
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http://www.cancrusher.org.uk is a site offering information about recycling aluminum and steel cans.
Recycle My Oil
One interesting fact about Waste Vegetable Oil is that the US produces over 100 million gallons a year. Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) that is filtered can be used straight in diesel vehicles that have been converted to cool the oil, or bio-diesel can be used with no conversion to the vehicle at all. Bio-diesel refining involves some toxic substances – methanol for example – and reduces the cost differential between conventional and recycled fuel. As an alternative to massive gas consumption, waste vegetable oil starts to make sense. One wvo recycling company in Colorado EPR inc. has an oil collection service that will collect restaurant or food service WVO on a regular basis for free. Many companys make arrangements with restaurants/food service to gather and re-use WVO (with or without further refinement) in their converted cars. I would seen that many greenhouse gases are created every year from the burning of diesel fuel in trucks. The recent fuel prices are cause for creative ways to act responsible environmentally speaking and one way, is to use waste vegetable oil as a renewable supply of fuel for vehicles. There are so many benefits of using this source to replace fossil fuels and some of these include abridged air pollution, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation many other valuable resources found on the planet. There are two different ways that you can use vegetable oil as a fuel in engines. The first way is that you can use straight vegetable oil either waste frying oil or fresh- pressed oil, however you will need an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine. The oil needs to be heated it is too thick to just work in an engine. If your goal is to go modification free on your diesel your best bet is to use not just WVO but Bio-Diesel. Bio-diesel is a fuel source that can be made from waste vegetable oil when a chemical reaction is induced between methanol and lye. You can create it from waste vegetable oil that can be collected from most restaurants, or you can use fresh pressed oil but that can be costly. World wide this is being produced today to be sold on the commercial market, due to the fact that anyone can get the right equipment it can even be made in your home. Some of the toxic air pollutants that are concentrated include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides, however nitrous oxide emissions may increase slightly.
