Valley Recycling

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste – such as food or garden waste – is not typically considered recycling. Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.
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Recycling is economical because costs associated with future disposal are avoided. One of these avoided costs is for landfill depletion. Landfills have limited space, and can only receive a limited amount of trash. When it is full, a new landfill must be made, which adds more cost. Additionally, the new landfill may be further away than the old landfill, increasing transportation costs. Paying the higher costs at a new landfill is avoided by keeping the older one open longer. Recycling and other waste-reducing methods help to do this.
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Valley Recycling INC in Tracy, CA understands the need to recycle. We specialize in Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Iron, Metals, Stainless Steel, Steel, Cans, Aluminum Cans, Scrap Iron, Copper Wire. We help to keep the costs of the landfills down!

Metal

• Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminum from raw materials. Energy saved from recycling one ton of aluminum is equal to the amount of electricity the average home uses over 10 years.

• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours.

• Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can out of new material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years.

• Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

• Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them.

• Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day.

• Americans throw out enough iron and steel to supply all the nation’s automakers on a continuous basis.

• A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution and mining wastes by about 70%.

• When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.

Steel:

• The steel industry’s annual recycling saves the equivalent energy to electrically power about 18 million households for a year. Every time a ton of steel is recycled, 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1000 pounds of coal and 40 pounds of limestone is preserved.

• Every day Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York… and back. If we only recycle one-tenth of the cans we now throw away, we’d save about 3.2 billion of them every year.

• The average American throws out about 61 lbs. of tin cans every month.

• About 70% of all metal used just once and is discarded. The remaining 30% is recycled. After 5 cycles, one-fourth of 1% of the metal remains in circulation.

Plastic:

• The steel industry’s annual recycling saves the equivalent energy to electrically power about 18 million households for a year. Every time a ton of steel is recycled, 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1000 pounds of coal and 40 pounds of limestone is preserved.

• Every day Americans use enough steel and tin cans to make a steel pipe running from Los Angeles to New York… and back. If we only recycle one-tenth of the cans we now throw away, we’d save about 3.2 billion of them every year.

• The average American throws out about 61 lbs. of tin cans every month.

• About 70% of all metal used just once and is discarded. The remaining 30% is recycled. After 5 cycles, one-fourth of 1% of the metal remains in circulation.