Why Add Metal Recycling to Your Spring Cleaning Routine

Spring is the perfect time to declutter and deep-clean your home and ensure every nook and cranny in your home is in tip-top shape. As the snow melts and the weather finally starts to warm up, it’s time to refresh your entire home and get organized. Nothing can feel satisfying like coming home to a tidy and well-organized space.

Along with cleaning all the rooms in your home and outdoor spaces like the driveway and deck, it’s important to add metal recycling to your spring cleaning routine.

At RCM Recycling, we’ve compiled some of the benefits that come with making metal recycling part of your spring cleaning routine.

Earn Additional Income

Recycling scrap metal is an easy way to make money while protecting the environment. Scrap metal buyers will gladly take ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, alloys, radiators, insulated wires, aluminum cans, automotive parts, ductwork, appliances, and many other scrap metals.

Different metals have different values, and different scrap metal buyers will offer different cashouts. However, non-ferrous metals like copper, aluminum, and zinc are more worth than ferrous metals like steel and iron.

Here’s what you can do to get the most amount of money from your scrap:

• Separate your scrap— Set up different containers for specific metals so that you'll get higher prices for rarer metals.
• Take apart your items—For example, an appliance surrounded by plastic and valuable metals is more likely to fetch a higher price if you take it apart and discard the non-metal parts.
• Amass your metals—the more scrap metal you have, the higher the cashout you’ll receive.

Free Up Your Space

Scrap metals take up a lot of space in yards, garages, sheds, and other areas of your property. Scraps of metal that are sitting around your home or commercial property can not only be an unsightly eyesore, but they also don't serve any purpose if they're only being stored.

The best thing you can do is collect these scraps of metal and sell them to nearby scrap metal buyers. Along with earning you money, selling scrap metal helps to free up your space for other useful purposes.

Environmental Benefits

Adding metal recycling to your spring cleaning routine helps to keep recyclable metals out of landfills. Metals take a very long time to biodegrade, and diverting as many scrap metals from landfills as possible cuts down emissions and reduces air pollution.

In addition, recycling metal replaces the need to produce virgin metal, and this helps to preserve natural resources used in metal production.

By selling your scrap metals to a scrap metal recycling facility, you’ll be helping to reduce waste at landfills and greenhouse gas emissions.

Sell Your Scrap at RCM Recycling Today

If you’re looking for dependable scrap metal buyers who offer good prices for scrap metal, contact RCM Recycling today. At RCM Recycling, our goal is to meet your recycling needs and ensure that you are paid good prices for your scrap metal.