Metals are one of the most versatile substances on earth. They can be recycled time and time again and used for various purposes. Learn more if you want to know more about scrap metal recycling.
Step 1: Scrap metal recycling starts with various appliances such as a fridge, refrigerators, and many more, getting into multiple processes to eliminate different substances and separate steel from plastics and other substances.
Step 2: When an appliance is already pulverized, in the case of fridges and washing machines, the crushed parts are sent to a bragging station and onto a conveyor belt in which they are sieved through a magnetic orbit in which metals and non-ferrous metals are separated with each other by a magnetic field.
Step 3: The metals then go through a separation chamber called an eddy current separator that uses alternating magnetic fields to separate non-ferrous metals and plastics. The eddy current causes the metals and aluminum to leap into a different chute and separate them from the plastics.
Step 4: Once the byproducts come out of the eddy current separator, a different chute drops off the metals and non-ferrous metals on a dedicated bunker. It is estimated that 60% to 80% of fridge and washing machines contains steel and 10% to 15% are plastics, and the remaining are your CFCs and oils. Once all the metals are harvested, the scrap metal recycling then sends out all metal products to a manufacturing company.
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