Alaska Scrap & Recycling

What does Alaska Scrap Metal and Recycling actually do?  Metal Recycling in Alaska is our game.  We recycle ALLtypes of metals including copper, bronze, aluminum, stainless steel, brass and iron.  We pay for all scrap metals based on a percentage of market price.  We will accept any metal scrap including appliances, junk cars, copper, aluminum, and iron, etc.  If it’s scrap metal we will take it and we will recycle it.

The benefits of metal recycling are astounding.  Take for instance the aluminum pop can.  By recycling one pop can, the energy saved would power your television set for 3 hours.  That one pop can alone generates a 95% energy savings over digging ore out of the ground and processing it.  That’s amazing!  As the price of fuel goes up the value in recycled metals follow.  By recycling metal we are playing a huge part in energy conservation.

The benefits are many….saving energy has a global impact through energy conservation. Cleaning up neighborhoods has a local impact by raising property values for homeowners. Also we are alleviating environmental concerns that are present anytime you have junk vehicles rotting on the ground.

We have salvaged 1000’s of junk cars and 1000’s of tons of iron from the Kenai Peninsula and the state of Alaska since our inception in January of 2008.  You may bring your junk car to either our Anchorage facility or our Soldotna facility.

Bring all of your scrap iron and tin to us.  Non-ferrous scrap metal?  We pay for that and we recycle it, too!  Have too much?  It’s possible that we can come and pick it up. 

Recycle!  It’s good for everybody!

We buy and sell all types of scrap metal throughout the state of Alaska.  We offer scrap removal services, industrial, and oilfield cleanups, hauling services and more.  We have a recycling center located on the Kenai Peninsula in Soldotna and a recycling center located in Anchorage.

Alaska Scrap and Recycling is a full-service scrap metal, metal recycling, and salvage enterprise that specializes in purchasing, recovering,  processing and shipping of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals.  If it is metal we will buy it from you.

We offer our demolition and dismantling services to the entire state of Alaska.  Our 2 locations are conveniently located.  We have a 6.5 acre facility located in Soldotna on Kalifornsky Beach Rd serving the entire Kenai Peninsula.  Our Anchorage location is 4 acres and is located down by the dock on E. Whitney Rd serving Anchorage and the valley locally.

Our state of the art facilities are a quick and efficient way to recycle household  and industrial scrap metal.  The process is simple.  You bring the scrap metal to us. We weigh it on state certified scales and give you money.  If you have a little bigger project we can help with that too.  We have extensive expertise in demolition and Salvaging of scrap metals all over the state of Alaska.

Our Past Projects

Our unique work has included the salvage of no-longer seaworthy metal vessels, the tear down of buildings and underground metal storage tanks, site cleanups of abandoned homesteads and oilfields.
Our long term projects involve the clearing of scrap metals from landfills in Seward, Homer and the Kenai Peninsula’s main landfill in Soldotna.

Other large jobs we have completed include clearing the landfill in Cordova, Alaska of the 2010 and 2011 summer seasons.

Another project we have completed is a cleanup on the Island of Adak of contractor and military equipment and scrap metal that was left behind at the base closure, as well as the demolition of various buildings thereon.

Recycled Metals and Their Uses

IRON

• Iron – The statement ‘iron is everywhere’ is true. It is not an understatement. It is a fact that you can find iron or a form of it, wherever you may be. Some may not be visible to the naked eye but still exists. From the button on your jeans to the frame on your car. Iron is used in all or part of everything that you touch.

ALUMINUM

• Aluminum – is a comparatively new metal that has been produced in commercial quantities for less than 100 year, but is second only to iron in world consumption. It weighs about one-third as much as steel or copper, and because of its high strength-to-weight ratio, it is ideally suited for aircraft, missiles, automobiles and trucks and marine vessels. Primary sources for scrap are beverage cans, aircraft, vehicles, appliances, furniture and electric appliances.
• Copper – this red metal is widely used for its electrical and thermal conductivity, its chemical stability, and its work-ability. Brasses are copper alloys containing zinc as the principal alloying element. Bronzes are copper alloys in which the principal alloy in elements are tin and zinc. Other classes are copper nickels, copper-nickel-zinc alloys, and leaded coppers. Automobile radiators, telephone and utility wire and cable, tubing, electrical motors, generators, ammunition shell cases, plumbing fixtures, and railroad equipment are major sources of obsolete red metals.

• Zinc – One of the most important uses is as a protective coating (galvanizing) on steel. It is widely used to make die castings for automobile and construction applications, as an alloying element with copper to make brass, and as a chemical compound in rubber and paints.

LEAD

• Lead – The major use is for batteries for energy storage. It is also used in ammunition and electrical cable sheathing. Scrapped batteries account for the majority of recovered lead. As a percent of output, lead is the most recycled metal.

• Brass – is a mixture of copper and zinc with traces of other metals. Brass is used in construction in things like screws, rivets and valves