Metro Salvage & Recycling

What Not to Use Your Dumpster For

While dumpsters can be used for multiple waste and recycling projects, whether big or small, there are certain things for which a dumpster cannot be used. Most of the things for which dumpsters cannot be used pertain to any sort of toxic or hazardous waste. The types of waste listed below cannot be put into dumpsters as waste. There are alternate ways to dispose of those types of wasteWhat Cannot Go Into a Roll-Off DumpsterElectronicsThis includes mainly all televisions, radios,…

Here's How to Price Scrap Metal

Learn about the steps necessary to price scrap metal properly, including tips on identification and market resources.

Recycling Center offers many recycling services

With all the articles in the newspaper and online about the uncertainty of the Recycling Center operation I have listed the services we offer to the

Quick Tips for Scrapping

If you are looking for money-making quick tips for scrapping, you have come to the right place. The iScrap App team shows you some tips for your metals.

How to Sort Scrap Metal

Selling scrap metal can be a great way to supplement your income, or you can do it full time. Before you can sell your scrap metal to a scrap yard, you need to separate the different metals in your scrap. A scrap magnet will help you...

Easy Recycling and Salvage

It's Make or Break for the World's Biggest Marine Salvage Operation

The Costa Concordia salvage operation has entered its next, most dangerous phase

19 Sweet Salvage Upcycles

Can't get enough of West End Salvage? Now you can relive it with 19 unbelievable upcycling projects from the show.

“Salvage logging” doesn't work!

Tell lawmakers that “salvage logging” worsens fire conditions in forestsWrite to your federal and state lawmakers and urge them to re-prioritize precious tax dollars toward controlled burning and home- and structure-hardening efforts in California wildfire zones— not toward removal of dead trees and other vegetation from the forest. Any thinning should be done sparingly and with careful planning and generally as a last resort. Large-scale…

The recycling mistakes you're likely making

Some items that may seem right for your recycling bin actually aren't, and it's doing more harm than you might realize. CNN's Allison Chinchar explains.

Recycling: Where Does It All Go?

Recycling is commonplace today in eastern Massachusetts, with curbside pickup of household recyclables in most communities. So, once it’s been collected, where does it all go?

Don’t just recycle; recycle the right way

Processing plant in Denver reports Fort Collins’ contamination rate is lowest in the state.

How Much Can We Recycle?

Changes in the waste stream have a major impact on our ability to meet recycling goals.

11 Things You Didn't Know About Recycling (But Should!)

Recycling is important to reduce the need for virgin materials. It can also be complicated and confusing. Find out things you didn't know about recycling.

Solving the recycling puzzle

Setting up successful recycling systems in apartment buildings is like a puzzle. You can have all the pieces right in front of you, but they don’t work together until every piece is in the right place.