Adams Recycling

Open 7 days a week, Adams Scrap Recycling is proud to be your recycling facility. Our goal is greater sustainability for our community. Through research and education we are able to provide our community with an opportunity for growth through recycling. Our global network of partners provides the highest recovery values for our clients' materials. Whether it's your old pickup truck, the laptop that gave up on you, or just your old soda cans,keep it out of our landfills,bring it to Adams. We are here for you. Every Day.

Recycling Facts

STEEL

• Each year, North America recycles more steel than plastic combined.
• Americans use 100 million steel cans every day.
• The steel industry has been recycling for over 150 years.
• The steel industry’s largest source of raw material is scrap metal, which is commonly collected by recycling steel.
• Recycling steel saves 75 percent of the energy that would be used to create steel from raw materials, enough to power 18 million homes.
• Over 65 percent of the steel produced in the U.S. is recycled into new steel every year.
• One ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone.
• A steel frame for a 2,000 square foot, two-story house is equivalent to the material of about six recycled cars; a comparable wooden frame would take over 40 trees to produce.
• A typical household appliance (also known as a “white good”) is produced using approximately 65 percent steel.
• Steel cans contain at least 25 percent recycled steel, with many nearly reaching 100 percent recycled content.

COPPER

• The copper on that penny maybe as old as the pharaohs, because copper has an infinite recyclable life.
• Copper, by itself or in any of its alloys, such as brass or bronze, is used over and over again.
• Copper was first used by humans more than 10,000 years ago. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8700 B.C.
• Known worldwide copper resources are estimated at nearly 5.8 trillion pounds of which only about 0.7 trillion pounds (12%) have been mined throughout history... and nearly all of that is still in circulation, because copper’s recycling rate is higher than that of any other engineering metal.
• Each year in the U.S.A., nearly as much copper is recovered from recycled material as is derived from newly mined ore... and when you exclude wire production, most of which uses newly refined copper, the amount of copper used by copper and brass mills, ingot makers, foundries, powder plants and other industries shows that nearly three-fourths (72%) comes from recycled copper scrap.

ALUMINUM

• About 65 % of America's aluminum is currently recycled.

• Every minute an average of 123,097 aluminum cans are recycled.

• On average, Americans recycle 2 out of every 3 aluminum cans they use.

• The average aluminum can contains more than 50% post-consumer recycled aluminum.

• In 1997 the aluminum industry paid approximately $1.03 billion to recyclers.

• An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery shelf in about 90 days!

• Twenty years ago, it took 19 aluminum cans to make one pound, but today's aluminum cans are lighter and it now takes 29 cans to make a pound! That means less aluminum is wasted, saving energy and other environmental resources!

• Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can's volume of gasoline.

• Making aluminum cans from recycled aluminum takes 95% less energy than making cans from virgin ore.