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Each year in the United States, over 150 million tons of scrap materials are recycled. This includes 85 million tons of iron and steel, 5.5 million tons of aluminum, 2 million tons of stainless steel, 1.8 million tons of copper, 1.2 million tons of lead and 420,000 tons of zinc.

Did you know that steel is the world’s most recycled metal? One of the main reasons for this is that steel is extremely economical to recycle because of its magnetic qualities and because it does not lose any of its inherent strength qualities, no matter how many times it is recycled.