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  2. Rag-and-bone man - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1960s the rag-and-bone trade as a whole had fallen into decline; in the 1950s, Manchester and Salford had, between them, around 60 rag merchants, but this had dropped to about 12 by 1978, many having moved into the scrap-metal trade. Local merchants blamed several factors, including demographic changes, for the decline of their industry.

  3. Materials recovery facility - Wikipedia

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    A materials recovery facility for the recycling of domestic waste Clean materials recovery facility recycling video. A materials recovery facility, materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility or multi re-use facility (MRF, pronounced "murf") is a specialized waste sorting and recycling system [1] that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end ...

  4. Wrecking yard - Wikipedia

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    A scrapyard is a recycling center that buys and sells scrap metal. Scrapyards are effectively a scrap metal brokerage. [1] Scrapyards typically buy any base metal; for example, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead would all be found at a modern-day scrapyard. Scrapyards will often buy electronics ...

  5. Sims Metal Management - Wikipedia

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    Sims Limited (formerly Sims Metal Management Limited) is a global environmental services conglomerate, operating through a number of divisions, with a focus on: (a) Ferrous and Non-ferrous metal recycling, (b) enterprise data destruction and cloud asset management (c) post-consumer electronic goods recycling and reuse, (d) municipal waste recycling, (e) gas to energy, and (f) waste to energy.

  6. Aluminium recycling - Wikipedia

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    The first step in aluminium recycling is the collection and sorting of aluminium scrap from various sources. [5] Scrap aluminium comes primarily from either manufacturing scrap or end-of-life aluminium products such as vehicles, building materials, and consumer products. [5]

  7. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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    High-purity scrap copper is melted in a furnace and then reduced and cast into billets and ingots. [18] Lower-purity scrap is melted to form black copper (70–90% pure, containing impurities such as iron, zinc, tin, and nickel), followed by oxidation of impurities in a converter to form blister copper (96–98% pure), which is then refined as ...

  8. Large scrap metal fire tackled overnight - AOL

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    Firefighters are tackling a scrap metal blaze in Birmingham that broke out overnight. Seven crews were deployed to the incident off Landor Street, at about 22:15 GMT on Tuesday, although that has ...

  9. Metal Management - Wikipedia

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    Metal Management was a metal recycling company, founded in 1983 and re-incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June 1986.Originally known as General Parametrics, Metal Management entered the scrap metal recycling industry on April 11, 1996, through its merger with EMCO Recycling Corp.