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<br />PAGE 5 <br /> <br />THE RECYCLING PRIDE PRESS <br /> <br />SPRING 1999 <br /> <br /> <br />RECYCLING SCRAP METAL $AVES A TONI <br /> <br /> <br />Help increase our recycling tonnage by recycling scrap metal here In Centerville. <br /> <br />Scrap metal comes from products we use everyday, such as obsolete and broken bicycles, cast iron <br />sinks, patio furniture, old automobiles, farm equipment, refrigerators, stoves, buildings, aluminum siding, <br />doors, window frames, metal bed frames, cooking pots and pans, electrical wire, metal office equipment <br />and furniture, pipe, tools, and metal toys. <br /> <br />Scrap metal recycling dates b~ck thousands of years, probably to 3000 Be or earlier when iron making <br />began. <br /> <br />"If the scrap recycling industry did not exist, streets, highways, and byways would be jammed with <br />abandoned automobiles and trucks, factory doors would be all but impassable because of the mounds <br />of unwanted materials stacked in front of them, households would by inundated with broken appliances, <br />and the U.S. network of landfills would be filled to capacity ("Scrap Recycling, Where Tomorrow Begins" <br />Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.)." <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />"Iron, steel, copper, lead, aluminum, zinc, nickel, gold, silver and their many alloys become "mines <br />above ground" when scrap is reused." <br /> <br />Recycling Scrap Metal Saves Energy. , <br />Using recyclables in place of virgin materials resul1s in significant energy savings (US. Environmental Protection Agency): <br /> <br />Aluminum.. ........ ._._. ............... ....95% <br /> <br />Copper................................... 85% <br /> <br />Iron elnct ~tE3E31 ........................ Jr~% <br /> <br />Lead .............. .~~..................... ~ :65% <br /> <br />Zinc........................................ 60% <br /> <br /> <br />Other Benefits of Scrap Meal Recycling: <br />Vs. using virgin materials (u.s. Environmental Protection Agency):. <br />Jr~%. selvings in E3nE3rgy . <br />90% selvings in virgin meltE3riell USE3 <br />86% rectuction in elir pollution <br />~O%, rE3ctuction in Welter use . <br />Jr6% rectuction in welter polfution <br />9Jr% rectuction in mining welstes . <br />105% rectuction in consumer wastes generelted <br /> <br />PUT ~OME ADDED GREEN BACK IN YOUR POCKETS <br />SWITCH TO SMALLER TRA~H SERVICE & RECYCLE MORe <br />