Metal Recycling Industry in Canada

Metals retain their essential properties when we recycle them for reuse. This is great news, because it reduces the environmental damage from extracting it from nature. Mining also consumes vast amounts of energy, increasing the carbon footprint in the atmosphere.

We use mainly metal fittings for our soffit, fascia, and eavestroughing projects. We decided to explore the metal recycling industry in Canada, because we believe it helps keep our country a greener safer place for our kids.

Overall, We Are Getting Smarter with Recycling Metals

The Canary Research Institute for Mining, Environment and Health promotes the advancement of education. And the reduction of poverty in Canada and elsewhere, relating to and resulting from the impacts of mineral development.

It strives to alert us to mining’s impacts on the physical, cultural, social and emotional well-being of humans and human communities. As well as the health of terrestrial and aquatic environments, by conducting research and providing information.

Canary Research Institute advises the global community currently uses between 30% and 60% recycled metals depending on type and application. This helps ensure we don’t consume everything nature provides in the form of finite raw materials.

Metals Are a Perfect Candidate for Recycling in Canada

We can recycle most metals as many times as we like, because their properties don’t degrade as plastic and paper do. Soldiers and blacksmiths have been doing so for millennia. This became an imperative during the American War of Independence. Paul Revere was a blacksmith who more usually spent his time recycling scrap metal into armaments.

The energy savings are impressive. Canary Research Institute reports the following energy savings from recycling metals, as opposed to processing them from their natural state: Zinc 60%, steel 74%, lead 76%, copper 85%, and aluminum 95% are all achievable at a modern recycling plant.

The Canadian Metal Recycling Industry’s Contribution

Canada’s recycling industry recovers 10 million tons of metal each year, valued at approximately $3 billion. It creates more jobs than its counterparts at landfill and waste fill operations do.

However, raw metal mining in Canada remains competitive on account of accelerated capital cost allowances, tax deferrals, tax credits and tax holidays. Canary Research Institute asks whether metal recycling is receiving its fair share of similar government support in Canada.

About Valiant Exteriors; Our Debt to the Environment

Valiant Exteriors is a privately owned company with roots firmly in Calgary. We acknowledge our debt to environment. We pledge to do all we can to slow, even reverse the threat of global warming, day by day.