The Cities Are Made of Metal

Have you ever stopped to think how much of ourThink how much metal and steel we use in an
world is made up of metal? I had this thought as I wasaverage large city. The reinforcements for all the
watching the last James Bond movie, the openingoverpasses, all the buildings, the cars, trucks, pylons,
scene where they are fighting and swinging all overcolumns, the list is endless. When the buildings come
that high rise metal structure. Surprising we don't justdown 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 toand efficiently to recycle and reuse the remnants from
our industrial world. In nations like Haiti where steeldestroyed buildings. Nothing is wasted, nothing hits the
reinforcement isn't widely used, you can see thelandfill. Cars are recycled, train cars, wire, anything
destruction an earth quake makes. The wholemade of metal can be reused and it is profitable to
infrastructures just comes tumbling down. Of coursehave the metals recycled.
there are other aspects to the disaster, but the lack ofYes, the world as we know it is heavy with metal, but
properly build building accounts for many deaths init components came from the earth so we are just
these third world countries. We make steel and metalsfine as far as weight. But we don't want to fill up the
to reinforce all of our large building, they are also buildlandfill with metal, so recycling and renewal is the key.
with movement in mind.