The following is a list of some of the materials Atlas Recyclers Inc. recycles:

• FERROUS & NON FERROUS METALS like:
  • ALLOYS
  • ALUMINUM SCRAP/ CANS
  • BRASS
  • COMPUTER BOARDS
  • COPPER
  • ELECTRONICS/CELL PHONE
  • HIGH TEMP ALLOYS
  • NICKEL
  • STAINLESS STEEL

Ferrous metals

Iron and steel are the world's most recycled materials, and among the easiest materials to recycle, as they can be separated magnetically from the waste stream. Recycling is via a steelworks: scrap is either remelted in an Electric Arc Furnace (90-100% scrap), or used as part of the charge in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (around 25% scrap). Any grade of steel can be recycled to top quality new metal, with no 'downgrading' from prime to lower quality materials as steel is recycled repeatedly. 42% of crude steel produced is recycled material.

Non-ferrous metals - most commonly Aluminum
Aluminium is usually recycled in the following basic ways:

1. In the case of products like aluminium drink cans, the cans are shredded and ground into small pieces.
2. The small pieces are then melted in a furnace to produce molten aluminium (by the end of this stage the recycled aluminium is indistinguishable from virgin aluminium and so further processing is identical for both). Some minor adjustments to the actual composition of the final product is required to eliminate impurities and to conform the recycled aluminium to the proper amalgam from which different materials are manufactured, including slightly different compositions for can bodies and lids. By this stage the recycled aluminium is indistinguishable from virgin aluminium and further processing is identical for both.
3. The molten aluminium is then poured in to moulds to create large ingots.
4. The ingots are then forced through rollers to create sheets of aluminium of whatever thickness is required for the product the metal will be used in.

Due to the high melting point of aluminum ore, large amounts of energy are required to extract aluminum from ore, making the environmental benefits of recycling aluminium enormous. Approximately 5% of the CO2 is produced during the recycling process compared to producing raw aluminium (and an even smaller percentage when considering the complete cycle of mining and transporting the aluminium). Also, as open-cut mining most often used for obtaining aluminium ore, mining destroys large sections of natural land.

An aluminium can is 100% recyclable every time it is recycled, it saves enough energy to watch television for about three hours.

Let us know what materials you have available or which materials you need, and we will quote you a price, for either full or partial loads.
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