by Peel Scrap Metal Recycling | Apr 2, 2012 | Company News, Electronic Scrap Recycling, Good Recycling Practices, Recycling History, Uncategorized, Urban Mining, Weigh Scales
Easily the busiest pieces of equipment at any scrap metal recycling operation are the weigh scales. Scales…One of Our Weighter Blog Posts, If You’ll Pardon The Pun. They provide the defining measurement for all material trading, both buying and selling. There’s...
by Peel Scrap Metal Recycling | Mar 20, 2012 | Good Recycling Practices, Recycling History, Sustainability, Urban Mining
When we started our business in 1990, the work was more physical and the regulatory environment was less intrusive. Today, we have more equipment to handle the physical load but we are surrounded by a sea of regulations involving such policy areas as human resources,...
by Peel Scrap Metal Recycling | Dec 14, 2011 | Recycling History, Recycling Non-Ferrous Metals, Scrap Metal Recycling, Scrap Wire Recycling, Uncategorized, Urban Mining
Recycling has been around for quite a while. We know this because archeologists have discovered that in periods when resources were scarce they find less waste at archeological sites. In fact, researchers suggest that recycling may date back as far as 400 BC. They...
by Peel Scrap Metal Recycling | Nov 2, 2011 | Blog, CARI, Recycling for Kids, Scrap Metal Theft, Urban Mining
Metal Theft: Our friend and associate Jim Murray of Onwords & Upwords, who has been working with us for a number of years helping us manage our communications, passed on an Associated Press Article this week concerning a bronze sculpture that had been stolen from...
by Peel Scrap Metal Recycling | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog, Metal Symbology
Metals have had a long history of symbolic relationships. Most notably, the attachment of symbols to metals can be traced to the ancient science of alchemy. Among other things, alchemists were interested in turning base metals into gold and silver. Along the way, they...
