UBERWALD ENVIRONMENTAL LTD will accept a large variety of metals including those listed below. Please contact us with your specific requirements so that we can tailor a solution for you.

Steel Mild steel, structural steel, incinerated scrap, cans, aerosols Cast Iron Foundry scrap Aluminium Cans, foil, alloy Copper Tube, wire, cuttings Lead Scrap, flashing Nickel and Alloys Stainless steel, chrome iron, tungsten carbide, cupronickel, pure nickel/tungsten/molybdenum/cobalt Tin Cans, solder, pewter Zinc Scrap, cuttings Precious Metals Platinum, palladium, gold, silver

Interesting facts about aluminium

Last year an estimated 5 billion aluminium cans were used in the U.K.

The energy it takes to make one new aluminium can is enough to make 20 recycled ones

It takes 4 tonnes of bauxite to make 1 tonne of aluminium; mining and transport both use large amounts of energy

Aluminium cans should be cleaned before recycling, although the labels do not have to be removed as the hot smelting process will destroy these

Bottle tops, take-away containers, as well as cooking and wrapping foil can all be recycled

It is easy to mistake silver-coated plastic (such as crisp packets) for the real thing. The squash test works every time: aluminium foil will stay crushed in your hand, the plastic sort springs back.

Interesting facts about steel

Each household uses approximately 600 steel cans per year

There are over 300million cans used per week over the Christmas period

The thinnest part of the can wall measures only 0.07mm thick-that’s thinner than a human hair

The value of used steel cans in the waste stream is an estimated £28 million per annum

1.8 billion drink cans are made of steel

The recycling rate of all steel packaging is 46%; aluminium has a 23.4% packaging recycle rate.

Steel cans are becoming lighter with the average weight of a soft drinks can in 2004 expected to be only 21.4g. In 1980 it was 31.2g.

There are over 2.5 billion cans recycled in the UK each year. That’s a saving of 125,000tonnes of solid waste every year, which is the equivalent weight of 18,000 double decker buses.

All steel cans are 100% recyclable.

All steel cans contain up to 25% recycled steel

Its not just food and drink cans made from steel, most deodorants, hairsprays, polishes, paint cans are made out of steel as well.

Recycling 1 tonne of steel cans saves 1.5tonnes of iron ore, 0.5 tonnes of coal, saves 80% of the CO2 emissions produced, cuts energy usage by 75% and cuts the amount of water used by 40%

Recycling seven steel cans saves enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 26 hours