Loading ...In Denver alone, experts said recycling scrap metals has a $284 million economic impact and creates more than 6,000 jobs in Colorado.
Henesey told Denver 7 over a day or two, he can receive up to 1 million pounds of steel, for example.
“New product. It goes into our appliances. It goes into our automobiles.”
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries cites studies that show the U.S. exports 30% of recycled scrap metal to 160 other countries. Construction firms still import lots of steel because, simply, it’s cheaper.
Other data, from ISRI:
In 2015, the U.S. scrap industry processed (exports plus domestic recycled):
• 5 million metric tons of aluminum
• 1.8 million metric tons of copper
• 622,000 metric tons of nickel/stainless steel
The United States exported nearly $11 billion worth of nonferrous scrap to 85 countries in 2014, including China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Belgium, India and Germany.
The U.S. provides more than 20 percent of the world supply of recovered copper= eeos translation: The US surely has the highest thievery rates in the world!!!! How else could this be? We all know by now that American’s are the most wasteful fools in the universe, it’s not like we care about the environment. Think of the idiots below the Atlanta freeway collapse, there you have it. This is where all that copper is coming from….THIEVES!
Let’s look at Denver’s recycling program too. We run trucks around the entire city collecting all kinds of materials. Guess where all the cardboard and newsprint goes? not trucked to Arizona anymore… just loaded up into empty shipping containers and sent back to China!!! Dumb