The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) Has Marked Global Recycling Day by Releasing a New A

London, UK - (NewMediaWire) - March 16, 2023 - The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) has marked Global Recycling Day by releasing a new A-Z detailing the benefits of recycling metals.

Created to help recognise and celebrate the important part recycling plays in preserving our precious primary resources and securing the future of our planet, Global Recycling Day (GRD) will take place on March 18.

Now the British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) is celebrating its five-year landmark with the release of an A-Z highlighting the wide-ranging benefits recycling offers and metals' limitless potential.

Antonia Grey, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the BMRA says: "From aluminium to zinc, showcasing metal is the perfect way to mark Global Recycling Day. It is one of only a few permanent raw materials created from recycling, and it can be recycled time and time again."

Here is the BMRA's A-Z of why this issue matters so much.

Aluminium - Recycling aluminium uses 95% less energy than producing aluminium from mined bauxite. Recycling one tonne saves 14,000 kWh of energy.

Batteries When tampered with, destroyed or in any way pierced or broken, a lithium/lithium-ion battery can explode, cause a fire, even electrocution. They pose a huge risk to people and places, which is why it is important they are not put in general waste, kerbside recycling boxes or bins or scrap loads. They can be recycled, but separately.

Copper 60% of copper produced since the 1900s is still in use today. It is a non-ferrous metal and is not magnetic. Copper is used in households to conduct electricity as well as in plumbing applications due to it being highly non-corrosive and non-toxic.

Design Innovative product design for metal recycling machinery such as balers, shredders and separation equipment means that preparing, processing as well as extracting metal from other materials for recycling is becoming more and more efficient, meaning even more metal being recycled.

Elements- 75% of all the known chemical elements are categorised as metals. Because it comes from the earth, it is critical metal is recycled to protect and sustain natural habitats.

Forever - Metal is 100% recyclable, it is permanent, and it can be recycled forever, over and over again.

Gold Did you know, one tonne of mobile phones contains as much gold as 70 tonnes of gold ore.

Hot cutting The use of extreme heat for procedures like hot-cutting helps to process metal so that it is ready for a foundry to be melted down and made into something for its next life.

Iron Iron is strong, durable, and used to make steel an alloy of iron and carbon. It is easy to separate it from other metals because it is magnetic.

Journey - The UK is one of the five largest metal scrap exporting countries in the world and is a key contributor to the UK economy.

Kilotonne - Metal recyclers process over 11,000 kilotonnes of ferrous and non-ferrous metal annually. A wide range of products are recycled, such as end-of-life vehicles, packaging, batteries, domestic appliances, building materials and electronic goods.

Limitless potential - Because it can be recycled time and time again, metal has limitless potential.

Materials Raw materials from recycling, such as metal, emits 80% less CO2 than metal produced from virgin ore mined to make brand new metals.

Nickel - 57% of all mined nickel is still in use and global nickel-related CO emissions are reduced by one third thanks to nickel recycling.

Olympic medals - Did you know that Japan's 2020 Olympic medals were made from metal from recycled mobile phones, digital cameras, handheld games and laptops.

Production using a blast furnace for steel production typically uses 15%-25% steel scrap with the rest made up of mined product. An Electric Arc Furnace can use up to 100% scrap metal to produce new steel.

Quality Most metals can be recycled time and time again without any loss of quality, meaning that recycling metal is a long-term sustainable alternative to mining.

Rhodium Rhodium is one of the metals found in a catalytic converter. When recycled correctly it can go back into a new catalytic converter to help reduce more car emissions.

Steelmaking - Every tonne of recycled steel saves:

1.5 tonnes of iron ore

0.5 tonnes of coal

70% of the energy

40% of the water

75% of CO2 emissions

0.97 tonnes of CO2

Tin cans Recycling one tonne of tin saves 99% of the energy required for the primary production of tin.

Uses Metal is plentiful and found everywhere to protect the food you eat, to build the bridge you walk over, the bike you ride, the mobile phone you use.

Value - Scrap metal has a value. You can be paid for it by a licenced dealer.

WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (known as WEEE) generally covers products that have a plug or need a battery, such as fridges, vacuum cleaners, and computer equipment. Although some WEEE can be made mostly of plastic, it often also contains metal and has its own recycling stream.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) - a key tool for the metal recycler to enable them to identify different alloys and metals.

Yards Metal can either be taken to a specialist metal recycler, collected from your house, or taken to a council-run Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC).

Zero Metal recycling, like all economic sectors in the UK is looking to decarbonise to meet the UK Governments 2050 net zero target.

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