Aluminium Recycling

We send allot of materials over sea that is to be recycled. One is card board it was being load on car carrying ships to Japan. Japan has no great forests to get the raw materials to make card board with. I see no problem with that most is shipped back anyway, boxed electronics.

You seem to be overlooking the reality of human existence. Environmental impact theory's don't weigh in with much concern over the hard cold real facts and figures that commerce and money provide. China pays better than what the local recyclers pay. Thats why stuff gets sent over there and does not get reprocessed here as much.

Most aluminum and any other common metal you buy has a good percentage of recycled material in it all ready. Depending on its intended function or specs requirements it can be nearly 100% recycled metal in many cases.

You must not be looking for the right places. I can buy aluminum sheet or even industrial rolls with out and problems. Look for manufactures and fabrication shops and call them about where they get their metal from. Most will even sell you stuff out of their stock as well.

Regarding aluminum recycling, initial ore processing requires a LARGE amount of energy. Re-processing scrap metal uses only a small fraction of that energy. Recycled aluminum is as good as original and may be recycled again. If the recycling energy/transport/pollution/money equations didn't provide even a small net benefit, I seriously doubt anyone would make the effort to recycle aluminum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

the only metal recycled more than aluminum is steel. Copper is third. virtually ALL aluminum you buy has at least some recycled aluminum in it because getting aluminum out of bauxite is so energy intensive they have to use as much recycled aluminum as they can.

You can find aluminum at a Metal service Center, Surplus Metal Center or anyone that sells Secondary Metals.Your larger scrap yards almost always have surplus metal.In your talks abour recycling,lets start from the beginning. First off your steel mills , and aluminum smelters have been regulated,taxed,and burdened with regulations that have strangled the industies.Granted there are companies and individuals that abused there responsibilities in regards to the enviroment,so relax all you enviromentalists, I agree there needs to be reasonable oversight on any industry, my humble opinion its too much,the metal refining business has been pushed out of the US. by excessive regulations,I know first hand. Secondly our unions have priced their jobs right out of the US.Their shortsighted goals have put their rank and file out of work. We export because the US. cannot consume all the scrap metal that is available. Our mills and smelters have been shuttered for these two factors. there are other situations that have been factors, these two,unions and regulations have strangled this industry. This is a short answer to your question in regards to recycling in the US.

agreed 100%