subject: Benefits Of Recycling Copper [print this page] One of the oldest metals known to man, copper has been used over the centuries and has been put to use for mans many uses such as creating weapons for war, cooking utensils, as an electrical conductor in the construction of buildings, and widely used in he field of electronics since the discovery of electricity. Being highly ductile and having a high thermal and electrical conductivity, it has found multiple uses in the electronics industry.
There is a lot of recycled copper lying around in plain sight, it is just up to us to find it before it gets disposed off into the bin and reached the landfill or the treatment plant were it could get burnt off of be buried forever. Both of the aforementioned ways is a waste of good copper because electrical wires, old fans and other motors in smaller electronic appliances often do not reach the scrap yard because people find it easier to get rid of them via the daily garbage. If people simply separate or even take those items to a junk yard, they would eventually be disposed off properly and land in the hands of scrap metal recyclers who would gladly segregate them. This segregated copper scrap in Dubai in its various forms are then collected and then pushed or packaged for manufacturers as raw materials or melted down at the copper scrap recycling facility itself to up the shapes of ingots. There are a lot of benefits to recycling copper when compared to producing them from scratch like from iron ore.
Environmental factor
Virgin copper is not freely available in the earths crust, it is found in the form of ore which needs to be processed. The chemicals involved in the process of obtaining these ores are released into the atmosphere which has a harmful effect on the environment.
Energy costs involved
Processing of ores requires a lot more energy in comparison to simply recycling copper for reuse in manufacturing facilities. Extracting copper from copper ore requires about 100GJ/tonne when compared to 10GJ/tonne required for melting scrap copper to a usable form.
Economics
It is cheaper to recycle old copper than to mine and extract new copper. Recycled copper is worth up to 90% of the cost of original copper. Recycling copper also helps to keep the cost of copper products down which promotes sales of copper products.
The Lucky Group provides a large variety of copper scrap sourced in from various points in the Middle East. They supply copper barley, berry, birch, candy and copper ingots to their clients across the world to over 40 countries. They always streamline their operations to be environmentally inclined. To know more about the Lucky Group kindly visit them online at: http://www.luckygroup.com
