scrap metal history

Hello, scrap folk! Did you know that scrap metal recycling started on an industrial scale During World War II, when the U.S. government launched a nationwide campaign encouraging Americans to start collecting anything metallic, so it could be recycled? As part of the war effort, factories had started to ramp up production of the tanks, ships and other weapons used to fight overseas. Metals were in short supply, so anything made from it, including scrap, got collected so it could be melted down and re-forged.
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