Unlike recycling of popular base metals like copper and aluminum which might make up a large portion of an object, the problem with trying to increase recycling of specialty metals is that they are used in only sparingly in the high-tech equipment.
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Honda Motor, for instance, said it would start recycling rare earth metals from used batteries.
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The biggest action to improve recycling of these metals is to boost collection of discarded products, she said.
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The British Metals Recycling Association has been supporting the Scrap Metal Dealers Bill, saying a cash ban alone will not reduce metal theft.
Ian Hetherington, head of the British Metals Recycling Association, said there was a problem with the number of illegal scrap dealers in the UK which could be as many as 900.
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Aside from economics, several other factors are restraining recycling efforts for all metals, not just specialty metals, she said.
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He said crews were being helped by Hereford-based recycling company Wye Valley Metals which is using specialist vehicles to remove the structure and contents of the building from the site.
Ultimately, recovery and recycling will have to dominate metals supply, because mining and production cannot do so indefinitely.
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What the report actually says is that many metals do have low recycling rates but these are almost always for very good economic reasons.
Recycling of indium along with other rare metals (3) will also prove pivotal.
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At PK Metals, we have a retail recycling operation, and we speak with members of our community every day.
Precious metals refining, scrap metal, recycling: they all share this same economic point.
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For metals such as hafnium and indium, recycling is the only way to extend the lifetime of critical sectors of the electronics industry.
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David Wilson, director of metals research, at Societe Generale, said recycling needs to take off in China, where little recycling is done so far.
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Britain is the fifth biggest exporter of scrap metal in the world and the metal recycling industry insists it is doing everything it can to prevent stolen metals passing through its sites.
Less than one-third of the 60 metals studied in the report have an end-of-life recycling rate above 50% while 34 elements are below 1% recycling, the UNEP panel found.
Even if there remains some dispute over the exact figures used, what the study does highlight is the importance of developing an integrated paradigm of production and recycling for algal fuel production, as I stressed before in the context of rare metals such as are required to maintain the electronics and solar power industries.
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Although still invested in clean energy, Segrich has been holding more resource plays, such as recycling companies, like Horsehead Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ZINC) and Globe Specialty Metals (GSM), which provides silicon metal to the Photovoltaic and Aluminum industries.
Recycling hazardous electronic equipment for material recovery (e.g. rare earth, and precious and other metals) in a manner which can substantially mitigate the hazards, entails significant costs.
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