“They found that the only worthwhile recycling scheme is aluminum.”
I think Fe recycling is still working after all these years.
Al is clearly economic.
Cu too.
**I think Fe recycling is still working after all these years.**
Recycling of iron was used in Arkansas for years! A car wreck that is “totaled” anywhere in the US was taken to scrap yards in Missouri to be scrapped. There they might reuse 4 or 5 wrecked cars into one drivable Frankenstein car and slip it down into Arkansas where it would be sold through the auto auctions as an “abandoned auto”. Then for a few dollars you could get a clean Arkansas title showing it had never been wrecked.
The company I worked for decided the plant manager needed a brand new car so bought one right off the show room floor. Several months later I noticed a very slight difference in the color of the paint job, between front and back. An inspection showed it to have been in a wreck that had been bondoed and sold as new.
We always wondered why we could never get a good used car in Arkansas. We lived her thirty years before a working companion told me about this scam.