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Ferrous metal recycling facts for kids

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Metals containing iron are recycled, so the iron can be used again. Steel is the metal recycled the most. One way iron is recycled is by adding carbon, which can make steel.

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Steel containers, cans, cars, appliances, and building materials are the most recycled things in the United States. In 2008, 97% of the amount of steel used to build things was recycled. More than the amount of steel used to make cars was recycled. Most appliances are about 75% steel.

Iron is recycled because it costs less to recycle it than to mine iron and make it usable.

Images for kids

  • Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Scrap Piles

    Piles of scrap metal collected for the World War II effort, circa 1941

  • Autowreckers

    The "organized chaos" of a scrapyard

  • Day 56 - West Midlands Police tackling metal theft

    British police investigating possibly-stolen metal at a scrapyard

  • Scrap Metal (Eugene, Oregon)

    Loading scrap gondolas in Eugene, Oregon

  • Veolia Miljø Metall (2881088183)

    Pile of shredded scrap in Norway

  • 2013 e visiting-scrap-metal-site-at-akaa-finland ore-e-refineries c-none q 4416x3312 scrap-metal-recycle img

    Scrap metal rusts in the snow (Finland)

  • CompactedSteelScraps

    A pile of steel scrap in Brussels, waiting to be recycled

  • VIEW FROM CARTERET, NJ, ACROSS THE ARTHUR KILL TO STATEN ISLAND SCRAPYARD AND SHIP GRAVEYARD - NARA - 551997

    Ship breaking operations on Staten Island (c. 1973)

  • I Need Your Scrap Metal Art.IWMPST14749

    Poster for World War II scrap collection campaign

  • ANewFlyerBusUnderAllThatJunkInSimsMetalScrapYard

    This pile of mixed scrap includes an old bus

  • Steel recycling bales

    Compressed bales consisting mostly of tin cans

  • Locomotives stacked for scrapping

    British Rail locomotives stacked awaiting scrapping

  • Stacked cars in city junkyard will be used for scrap - nara - 552739 retuschiert

    Flattened cars stacked near Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States)

  • "A compact car"

    A single compacted car (Finland)

  • Car Cubes (3463695956)

    Stacked cubed cars (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

  • CompactedSteelScraps

    Compacted scrap pile (Austria)

  • Varia (15966651796)

    Rhine River scrap barge (Basel, Switzerland)

  • Bremen Hafen E Schrottumschlag

    Scrap awaiting export (Bremen, Germany)

  • North Africa 2007 163 Truck

    Scrap metal hauler (Libya)

  • Deritend Car Park

    Partition made of compacted cars (Birmingham, England)

  • Dublin 6

    A train awaits scrappage (Dublin, Ireland)

  • NYC subway cars used as artificial reef

    New York City Subway cars being dumped at sea to enlarge an artificial reef (South Carolina, United States)

  • Scrap paper dealer in Chandigarh

    Scrap paper dealer (Chandigarh, India)

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