2019 Recycling Industry Yearbook

ISRI.ORG 19 Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, EPA, and ISRI estimates THE FERROUS METAL RECYCLING PROCESS Here’s how the steel in cars can be recycled and used to build other things, like bridges. The recycled steel is used in the construction of items such as buildings, bridges, and new cars. START Old and broken cars that can no longer be driven, but can be recycled. Those old cars are sold as scrap metal to a recycler. Cars are inspected & potentially hazardous materials are removed. Scrap metal is sorted by type of metal. Shredded scrap is sold to a steel mill & melted to make new steel. Ferrous Metal Cars are fed into a shredder to sized pieces of scrap metal.