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__**Recycling Steels and Metals**__ By: Jake, Cory, & Mike An Overlay of Steel Scrapping ​ ​ Steels and Metals are a very important product for recycling. Steels and metals are a product that is 8% of your household garbage according to a study done in 2003, also unlike some things that can only be recycled so many times, any type of metal can be recycled indefinitly meaning over and over again with out losing any of it's properties.
 * ​**​ ​ The Stats of Steel Reusage

Currently about 70% of steel is recovered and reused or recycled, 2/3 of the remaining steel that is not recycled is in landfills. Scrap steel reduces related water and air pollutions and mining wastes about 70%. One ton of recycled steel saves 2500 pounds of iron and 1000 pounds of coal.Steel makers recycle 68% of steel made because they use scraps to produce high end products. Ohio is the second largest steel producing state in the U.S. 17% of the Nations steel in 1994 was made in Ohio. In 1995, Ohioans used more than 2 billion steel food and beverage cans and 53% was recycled.

Saving up with Steel

Steel is the most recycled material in America, because of steels magnetic quality make it easy to pull from the waste stream. Steel is refered to as tin for the thin layer of that is applied to the steel. The amount of energy conserved by recycling one pound of steel is enough to light a 60 watt light bulb for more than a day.

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The steel is seperated by a magnet from other metals and is melted down in a furnace. It is then pured into casters and rolled out into sheets. the recycled materials can be made into anything, such as cars, apliances, and cans. As stated previously, steel can never wear down and can be melted down endlessly.

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