In early March 2020, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries sent an urgent letter to the office of the Vice President urging to qualify recycling business drop off centers for recycling as an essential service. This has shed light on the massive importance of recycling in the US economy and the effects our collective recycling
So you’re in the construction, renovation, or demolition business, and you want to save on disposal costs of your construction debris as well as do good for the environment. According to the EPA, the United States generated 569 million tons of C&D debris in 2017, which is more than twice the amount of generated municipal
The benefits of recycling steel range from the economic to the environmental; we all have something to gain from metals recycling. There’s nothing really complicated about recycling steel, it’s more of a process of where to find it, and how to sort through the mess. If you’re ready to turn your scrap in, give GLE
Let’s be honest; everyone has a junk drawer or box of old wires. Sometimes it’s random, and sometimes it’s a little bit more organized. However, we’d bet that you have a box of old or unused electrical cords and wires that you haven’t touched in years, possibly decades. Time to recycle those electrical cords.