As a modern metals recycling facility, Richmond Steel Recycling (RSR) processes thousands of tons of recyclable metals every month. From its earliest beginnings in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was focused on recycling what modern society at the time termed “junk.” The word “junk” was very much a part [...]
You can track a parcel being sent from the depot to your front door and even fast food from the kitchen to your table - but surely such technology isn’t needed for your garbage and in the scrap metal industry? The reality is most people probably don’t worry whether the [...]
We live in a throwaway society, so does it matter if we don’t give scrap metal value and just put it in the garbage bin? It used to be a commonly held view that we can put our trash in a hole in the ground and just forget about it, [...]
A discovery off Israel’s coast illustrates how the metal recycling industry dates back more than 1,600 years to Roman times. Onboard a shipwreck found by divers in 2016 were metal statues of a sun god, moon goddess and whale along with other figurines and coins. The significance of this find [...]
If you ever feel like your life resembles Groundhog Day, as you repeat the same things over and over and over again, then maybe you have more in common with aluminum cans than you imagined. Singer Joni Mitchell pitched life as going “round and round and round in the circle [...]
The Canadian government wants to ban harmful, single use plastic by 2021, which could lead to a huge increase in aluminum recycling and a change in how we buy water, Coca Cola, Pepsi and other soft drinks. There are many problems with plastic. Unlike aluminum, which is collected by companies [...]
Scrap metal is essential to the Canadian economy. But dealing in the scrap metal market can be unpredictable, due to a number of factors that cause prices to fluctuate constantly. We break down some further complex reasons why the value of scrap metal recycled by companies like Richmond Steel Recycling [...]