Farming and the agricultural sector require heavy-duty equipment and machinery to carry out necessary strenuous labour. When everyone is looking for a little extra money, if you own a farm and have some old equipment lying around, scrapping it for cash could provide additional funds to purchase newer equipment that may offer more efficient labour.
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Recycling metal is vital to the future of the planet. With the limited resources available from mining and the efforts industries are taking to preserve what’s left of the diminishing resources, recycling scrap metal has never been more critical. In fact, nearly 40% of the materials used in manufacturing and the construction trade are recycled steel.
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When it comes to recycling metal, it initially gets separated into two categories, ferrous and non ferrous. Being a ferrous metal means the material is made up of a percentage of iron. However, whilst many metals will contain small traces of iron, ferrous metals will have a significant addition of iron to deem it ferrous. At Morecambe Metals, we specialise in ferrous metal recycling and processing.
The scrap metal industry is an imperative component of many manufacturing, construction, and even electrical sectors. Much of the materials used within these industries are recycled from scrap metal at recycling facilities like ours at Morecambe Metals.
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The effort to obtain raw materials is a struggle felt worldwide. While the demand for resources is growing, the globe is looking at alternative solutions to provide for manufacturing and construction without diminishing the world’s resources even further. It has been suggested that if the population continues to grow at its current rate, our natural materials could be exhausted within the next 20 years.
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Factories, or sections of a factory, may often reach a point where their intended use is no longer valid. Therefore, they will need to be decommissioned to allow the building to be demolished, dismantled, or repurposed. It can be a highly complex procedure and means following the correct guidance and finding a business that deals with commercial metal recycling. At Morecambe Metals, we pride ourselves on our industrial dismantling and commercial metal recycling services. We can carry this out for you and your business with a safe and efficient approach. We can work with everyone from small trading estate sites to large warehouses and heavy-duty utility sites, which means no job is too big for our specialist team.
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The scrap metal industry has been our area of expertise for over 35 years. We specialise in the recycling of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, this can vary from end of life vehicles to demolition scrap. Even though we have been in the business of scrap metal for a long time, we are no stranger to a challenge and the ability to solve problems when faced with them. The world is rapidly adapting, and as a business whose values lie heavily with sustainability in mind, we have learned to evolve with it.
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The Waste Hierarchy is the title given to a simple ranking system of ways to reduce the environmental impact of waste. Businesses can choose from many different approaches and processes for waste management, but knowing which is the best can be difficult, which is why the hierarchy was created.
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Here at Morecambe Metals, we use a variety of industrial machinery to process scrap metal in preparation for recycling. We have designed our processes to be as efficient as possible, and metals balers help us achieve this. As part of our ongoing series exploring the machinery and tools that keep Morecambe Metals running, today we’re going to talk about metal balers, what they are, how they work and why they’re crucial to scrap metal recycling processes.
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The scrap metal recycling industry relies on incoming scrap metal to process and turn into new metal. Scrap comes from several different streams; the average consumer may not even realise how many recourses are utilised to reclaim metal. When some people think of scrap metal, they picture the crushed aluminium drinks cans in their domestic recycling boxes. Others might think of old cars stacked on top of one another in a scrapyard. The truth is, scrap metal is everywhere, but not all scrap is created equal. Today, we will explore the different types of scrap metal, where they typically come from, and how they’re processed.
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