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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Stena Metall - Wikipedia

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    Through Stena Recycling AB, the company collects and processes scrap metal, plastic, paper, e-waste, spent batteries, hazardous waste and chemicals at about 173 sites in seven countries. [10] The consulting arm of Stena Recycling AB helps companies to design more sustainable products. [ 11 ]

  9. Scrap - Wikipedia

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    Scrap metal rusts in the snow (Finland) The metal recycling industry encompasses a wide range of metals. The more frequently recycled metals are scrap steel, iron (ISS), lead, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and zinc. Steel [10] is the most recycled due to its sustainable properties. There are two main categories of metals: ferrous and non ...