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Choose Steel
It’s the world’s most recycled, and recyclable material.
Thinking recycled material for your next job? How about our galvanized
steel tubing? Our products themselves are recyclable. Our tubular
products (by weight) are 95-98% steel, and are therefore at least
95-98% recyclable.
You may not know it, but steel is the world's most recycled material.
Each year more than 60 million tons of steel is recycled, more than
double the amount of all other materials combined, including paper,
glass, plastic, aluminum, and other metals.
From old cars to old appliances, steel is recycled and re-created into
new products for new uses. That's how the steel from an old car can
become the steel used in new playground equipment, greenhouses,
awnings, or fitness equipment. It's also the most recyclable material,
so someday, the steel in your playground equipment may become the
steel used in your new car!
If your specs or bid requirements call for using recycled materials
for equipment, ask for steel. Steel has been recycled even before
recycling was popular. For over 150 years, steel scrap has been
recycled and turned into new steel products.
And when those products become old or obsolete, many are recycled and
re-created into even newer products. When you use steel, you're
helping to close the recycling circle.
When the specs call for recycled, ask for steel!
Most of the steel recycled today comes from old automobiles. The
typical passenger car consists of about 70 percent steel and iron by
weight, and much of that can be recycled.
Recycling automobiles is good for the environment. Last year, more
than 12 million tons of steel were recovered from recycled cars and
diverted from local landfills.
Here’s how the process works:
- Old cars are hauled to an
automobile dismantler. The reusable parts are removed and resold to
auto repair garages, body shops or to the public.
- Reusable components and other
items like tires, batteries and fluids are removed. Then, the hulks
are usually flattened and shipped by truck to ferrous scrap
processors.
- At the scrap yard, the crushed
automobiles are loaded by crane into the automobile shredder. The
shredder demolishes one car every 45 seconds! This process yields
three streams: iron and steel, nonferrous metal and fluff (rubber,
glass, fabric, etc.). The iron and steel are magnetically separated
from the other materials.
- The steel shred is magnetically
loaded into a railcar or truck. Or, it may be stockpiled for future
shipment to end markets, or to steel mills, where it is recycled to
produce new steel.
The recycling process is complete!
All that recycled steel saves
landfill space and energy, too! The steel industry annually saves
enough energy to power 18 million households for a year.
Next to the Big 3 auto makers and appliance manufacturers, Allied Tube
and Conduit is one of the largest purchasers of recycled steel. Steel
produced in a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) has a recycled content of
20-30%, and steel produced in an electric arc furnace (EAF) contains
virtually 100% recycled content. Allied has nearly a dozen suppliers
of steel coil using both the BOF and EAF processes. Thus our tube
contains a minimum of 30% recycled steel, and in some cases as much as
100%, depending on the supplier our coil. In general, about 50% of our
tubing comes from recycled material
American steel has organized The Steel Recycling Partnership, a
consortium of steel companies and their customers, environmental
groups, government agencies, recyclers, and municipal authorities.
This coalition is using advertising and conducting local events around
the nation to promote awareness and increased steel recycling.
For more information on steel recycling, call the Steel Recycling
Institute's consumer hotline, 1-800-YES-1-CAN (937-1226).
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