With the recent rise in Covid19 cases and the lockdowns that are now taking place in Ontario, this is a good time to do a little mid-winter spring cleaning of your recyclable metals. For Businesses Manufacturing businesses can take advantage of this slow period by...
Recycling has been around for a 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...
It’s Not as Scary As It Sounds At the moment, we are in the process of installing new and very powerful air pollution control equipment at our wire processing facility. Commonly referred to as a ‘baghouse’, this equipment is much more than a gigantic vacuum...
Increasingly common in our green vocabulary are phrases like Product Stewardship, Extended Producer Responsibility and Original Equipment Manufacturer. These are all phrases used to promote the idea that responsibility for a product must ultimately extend to everyone...
The recycling process often generates its own stream of by-products which also require innovative solutions. Although our primary focus at Peel Scrap Metal is metal recycling, we increasingly have an interest in plastics since the introduction of our chopping line for...