The only can that is not recyclable at home is a partially full aerosol can which is classified as hazardous waste.
Some metals can't be put in your recycling container, but you probably already know about most of them. Examples include any radioactive metal uranium, plutonium Also off limits are lead-containing products like cathode ray tubes found in TVs and computer monitors. While precious metals are recyclable, chances are you probably want to keep the value of your silver, gold, or platinum for yourself. Check out our Jewelry page for more information.
The entire recycling industry is dealing with this right now, which is driving down the profitability of all of the work we do. At the end of the day, we have to pay our employees and manage our operating costs, so decreased profitability may end up resulting in increased costs for recycling services nationwide if we do not improve the quality of our recyclable materials.
Believe it or not, recycling the wrong materials can actually cause harm to the environment. First, non-recyclable materials have to get transferred from the recycling facility to the landfill.
That's an extra trip that could have been avoided if the non-recyclable material had been put in the garbage to begin with. But on an even larger scale, loads of recyclable materials often get shipped to buyers around the world.
If they get turned away for contamination, the entire load has to come all the way back to the United States! That's a major world-wide transfer that wastes resources and causes pollution. We thank you for your cooperation with all recycling rules.
Together, we can ensure that as much material as possible gets responsibly recycled! For more information on the recycling process, visit TC Recycling's website. This is a fluid situation, and the recycling industry is changing on an ongoing basis.
Decreased Efficiency The first step of the recycling process is sorting. Paint cans should be disposed of properly at a hazardous waste drop off center. This will ensure proper disposal with no environmental implications. You can find a list here of drop-off depots in Toronto here. Motor oil paint cans cannot be recycled for the same reason as paint cans. The harsh chemicals that have emulsified within the metal of the cans can be hazardous to air quality and the environment. To give you an idea of how toxic even a trace of motor oil can be, a representative for Earth For this reason, motor oil cans should be disposed of at a hazardous waste drop-off center.
Although pots and pans are not hazardous, they are not regularly accepted at local scrap metal recycling centers for cash refunds. This is because many pots and pans have a coat over top of the metal to prevent chemicals from the metal from seeping into food. A well-known example of this type of coat is called Teflon Polytetrafluoroethylene. Teflon helps prevent food from being contaminated with certain chemicals and prevents food from sticking to the pot or pan.
This coating is highly beneficial for cooking, but cannot be recycled at a metal recycling center due to possible environmental hazards.
Propane gas tanks are one of the most common items that people try to recycle. These gas tanks cannot be recycled because of their interaction with propane gas. Propane tanks fall under the same category as motor oil cans and paint cans in terms of their hazard.
Comments: No Comments. Category: Blog. How can metal be recycled? Mercury: Radioactive metals are not the only ones that pose a threat to your health, the same can be said about materials that are simply too toxic to be recycled like Mercury.
Lead: Even though lead is quite commonly used in electronic devices lead-acid batteries, computer and TV screens, and so on it is extremely dangerous and can cause several very serious health problems. Scrap yards will accept devices that contain lead and remove all the harmful elements before recycling other materials.
Contaminated cans: The issue here is not with typical aluminium food cans, those can be recycled without any issues, but with paint and motor oil cans.
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