When items such as old cars, household appliances, farm, office, and
industrial equipment, ships and railway wagons, buildings and bridges
complete their useful life, they take on a new value as important
manufacturing material known as scrap metal or, specifically, "ferrous"
scrap (the word ferrous is derived from the Latin word "ferrum"
meaning iron).
Ferrous scrap
might come from a demolition site, shipyard, auto dismantler, or
even your house. Manufacturing plants also generate industrial scrap
such as stampings left over when appliance parts are made during
the manufacturing process or when a hole is drilled in a steel plate.
Iron and steel
can be processed and remelted repeatedly for the manufacture of
an almost unlimited range of new objects for use by industry and
individual consumers alike.
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