Global Sustainability with Scrap Metal: How Businesses Can Help Meet Global Sustainability Goals
Globals sustainability with scrap metal starts simply. It starts with your car.
What does your car have to do with energy and sustainability? A lot actually.
The car you drive today will inevitably end up in either one of two places, a landfill or recycling facility.
And you want it to end up in the latter, not the former. You want it to be recycled.
Did you know that recycling one car can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8,811 pounds of carbon dioxide?
Did you know that 80 percent of a car is recyclable?
Did you know that the car recycling industry saves about 85 million barrels of oil annually?
It’s easy to see from those numbers that the scrap metal of a car is essential in the reduction of greenhouse gasses and the preservation of our natural resources.
It’s important to recycle scrap metal, it’s that simple.
Think of it this way: when people take their scrap metal and opt to recycle it rather than throw it out, that enables new products to be made from what would otherwise be considered “junk.”
In 2017, for example, the U.S. made most of its steel and aluminum by recycling scrap metal. In other words, new products that consumers or businesses are purchasing today have come from what’s being discarded from demolished buildings, old cars and used cans.
In fact, the U.S. made about 82 million metric tons of steel in 2017, with more than 68 percent of it being made from scrap metal.
That’s why the United Nations has joined with so many environmental groups in promoting the recycling of scrap metal and e-waste as a tool for sustainability.
The concept is simple, logical and sensible: rather than contributing to the ecological disaster of allowing landfills to become overloaded with materials containing toxins, we recycle and effectively re-use what we already have but no longer want or need.
Expect the advocates of sustainability to continue promoting recycling this year, and to keep educating the public about why it’s so important. https://glescrap.com/global-sustainability-with-scrap-metal












