As a battery production facility ramps up, scrap rates can reach upwards of 90%. All that scrap waste costs a producer a lot of money, which in some cases can take four years to recoup. Much of that ...

In a blog post titled “Scrap, or Strategic Asset? America Must Rethink its Approach to Secondary Aluminum,” Joe Quinn, executive director of the Center for Strategic Industrial Materials at SAFE, ...

U.S. Geological Survey also calculates an 88 percent steel appliance recycling rate for last year and a 71 percent rate for rebar scrap. USGS estimates 63 million tons of ferrous scrap were consumed ...