Were does it go.

**Gberic32** · 10-26-2014, 12:22 AM

Just wondering does anyone know what the yard does with the metal we bring in? I know they recycle it

but does anyone know the process or web pages to look at to get this info? Working in a foundery I see a some of it. The coper we use looks like number two wire cut into little 1/8 inch pieces. We have a huge bin of it and I often wounded how much wire was brought in just to fill that bin. We use foundery grade nickel, which I don't recommend stealing you will get caught! But that looks like 1/2 inch bb's which I am assuming someone somewhere melts down the nickel we bring in and has a mold. What I am really curious about is this product we call slitter it is probably an 1/8 inch thick and about 6 inches long. And we use alot of it, we pick it up with a magnet that is strong enough to pick up a car. Do you think this is what happens to the products you guys call shred. I was thinking that but the metal we use does not have any painted coat on it and I know some of the products you guys say I throw it in the shred pile is painted.

**Mechanic688** · 10-26-2014, 12:59 AM

I know my local yard shreds our misc metals/appliances and loads a semi and it goes to Steel Dynamics. They say they are one of the largest steel processing companies. They're large enough that they bought Omni Source, one of the larger scrap processing companies in the Midwest. I guess they blend the shred back into new.

https://www.stld-cci.com/

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**bigburtchino** · 10-26-2014, 02:28 AM

Some of the "scrap" that we sell is used for domestic purposes. A large amount is sold overseas and helps lower a large accumulating trade deficit with China. In 2011 the combined scrap products was $1 billion more than our soybeans exported to China ($11.3 billion in scrap and $10.4 billion soybeans). Soybeans was our "Official" #1 export in 2011, as each category of scrap is listed separate, with copper being number 4 at $3.4 billion to China. In 2013 we had a record trade deficit with China of $318 billion. The scrap industry is a key US strategy to lowering that growing deficit! So scrap on.