metal-roof-recycle-galvalumeDREXEL METALS CREATED THE FOLLOWING TO BETTER EXPLAIN THE RECYCLED CONTENT OF GALVALUME PRODUCTS INSTALLED BY GLOBAL HOME IMPROVEMENT

  • Recycled-content product is an item that contains recovered materials. Recovered materials are wastes that have been diverted from conventional disposal such as landfills for another use. Recovered materials include both pre-consumer and post-consumer wastes.
  • Pre-consumer materials are generated by manufacturers and processors, and may consist of scrap, trimmings and other by-products that were never used in the consumer market.
  • Post-consumer material is an end product that has completed its life cycle as a consumer item and would otherwise have been disposed of as a solid waste. Post-consumer materials include recyclables collected in commercial and residential recycling programs, such as office paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, plastics and metals.
  • Post-industrial recycled material is derived from manufacturing waste or sub-standard products that have not been used.

Steel is the world’s, as well as North America’s most recycled material. In the United States alone, nearly 70 million tons of steel were recycled in 2000. Every ton of steel that is recycled saves 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone. New steel made with recycled material uses as little as 26% of the amount of energy that would be required to make steel from raw materials extracted from nature.

According to the Steel Recycling Institute the total recycled content from Basic Oxygen Furnace production of 59,485,000 tons of steel in North America during 2002 was 18,848,000 tons or 31.7% total recycled content. Drexel Metals LLC steel products installed by Global Home Improvement are produced using this meathod. Call 888.234.2929 for more information.