Verichek offers beginner’s guide to scrap recycling

Bethel Park, Pennsylvania-based Verichek Technical Services Inc. has created a “Scrap Metal Recycling 101” webpage, designed to introduce the industry to potential new collectors and sellers of scrap metal.

The multisection guide describes the environmental benefits of recycling before engaging in a description of how scrap is collected, processed and consumed.

Verichek’s guide recommends that would-be scrap collectors always carry a magnet and supply themselves with several containers to store different types of metal separately. “If you mix them together, the scrap yard will either tell you to separate the metals and come back, or pay you based on the least valuable metal in the bunch,” say the guide’s authors.

The guide then goes on to offer an overview of the most common types of ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys and in what applications they might be found. Also included are safety guidelines and tips for identifying and upgrading scrap materials.

Verichek Technical Services provides support services to users of spectrometers and other metal analyzing and identification equipment.