| Have you ever stopped to think how much of our | | | | Think how much metal and steel we use in an |
| world is made up of metal? I had this thought as I was | | | | average large city. The reinforcements for all the |
| watching the last James Bond movie, the opening | | | | overpasses, all the buildings, the cars, trucks, pylons, |
| scene where they are fighting and swinging all over | | | | columns, the list is endless. When the buildings come |
| that high rise metal structure. Surprising we don't just | | | | down there has to be a place for all that reusable |
| sink into the ocean. | | | | metal. Scrap metal in Toronto is handled professionally |
| Steel companies perform a very valuable service to | | | | and efficiently to recycle and reuse the remnants from |
| our industrial world. In nations like Haiti where steel | | | | destroyed buildings. Nothing is wasted, nothing hits the |
| reinforcement isn't widely used, you can see the | | | | landfill. Cars are recycled, train cars, wire, anything |
| destruction an earth quake makes. The whole | | | | made of metal can be reused and it is profitable to |
| infrastructures just comes tumbling down. Of course | | | | have the metals recycled. |
| there are other aspects to the disaster, but the lack of | | | | Yes, the world as we know it is heavy with metal, but |
| properly build building accounts for many deaths in | | | | it components came from the earth so we are just |
| these third world countries. We make steel and metals | | | | fine as far as weight. But we don't want to fill up the |
| to reinforce all of our large building, they are also build | | | | landfill with metal, so recycling and renewal is the key. |
| with movement in mind. | | | | |