Metal recycling in Los Angeles is a well regulated industry. As you can imagine the process of recycling scrap metals may, it often does include some hazardous materials. It’s important, therefore, not only to us as the scrap metal dealer to the state of California that we have bye-bye certain state as well as federal regulations. We won’t really touched on the federal regulatory agencies that oversee this kind of work but of course the Environmental Protection Agency is one.

In California there are specific laws, regulations and policies in place to protect the environment while we go about our business recycling the Scrap metal scrap to our facility. For a complete list of all those involved in oversight is it the California Department of toxic substances control website which we will link to here.  As we mention the D TSC is one of those oversight departments but the California Department of resources recycling and recovery, also known as Cal recycle, is in charge with regulating the recycling of electronic waste. In order to keep our California waterways clean the California State water resources control Board or SW RCB manages the oversight of steaks drinking water.

While our metal recycling Business here in Sun Valley California is not near any significant body of water runoff from industrial facilities like ours can be a problem if it runs into storm drains. That water flows into the ocean and so it is a concern even when talking about scrap metal yard that are far inland. This concern is the bailiwick of the California department of industrial relations for DIR for short.

Organizations that take junk cars they can be dismantled an recycled as scrap fall under the auspices  of CalOSHA. The California department of motor vehicles also needs to provide licenses to those businesses that dismantle and recycle car parts.

As you can see, our business it Is heavily regulated to make sure that you consumer are protected. Even though what we do he’s in large part beneficial to the environment, the process of recycling metals can and does generate a certain amount of waste and steps need to be taken to make sure whatever waste is generated is contained and disposed of according to the law.

Any hazardous materials that are part and parcel of the scrap metal brought our facility are also closely monitored to make sure that they do not contaminate the area or — in the case of storm drains—do not end up fouling California’s coast line.

This is just food for thought and something to keep in mind the next time you bring a load of scrap metal to us for cash. The whole process can be beneficial to both scrap metal recycling facilities as well as their customers and the environment as a whole. We get the scrap metal we need to sell to third parties,  you customer walks away with cash and the state of California thanks to oversight and regulation remains clean and unspoiled. For more information the legal aspects of metal recycling check out the DTSC website or any other state of California online resources dealing with recycling or hazardous waste.

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The nearest recycling center, as we’ve written before, is TM Scrap Metals. That’s due to the fact that we can come to you through our mobile recycling service. It really doesn’t matter where you are in greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, just call us and let us pick up your scrap metal.

We write about the various metals we recycle here, but behind every blog post or article is the fact that metal recycling is big business and there’s opportunity for enterprising scrappers to make good money.  A quick look at the metal recycling business shows us some interesting statistics. For one, it’s the non-ferrous metals that pay the most. Metals like copper, aluminum, nickel, tin, lead and zinc (to name a few) are in high demand. These metals do not lose their chemical properties when recycled. That means these metals can be used and reused ad infinitum via recycling. Using recycled metals means lower costs for manufacturers (compared to creating these same metals by digging them out of the earth.

The upshot is, metal recycling centers like ours perform a valuable service for industry as well as the environment. To keep our facilities going we need a steady supply of scrap metals and our customers are the ones who supply us with that scrap. As we’ve also written this relationship between scrapper, recycling center and manufacturing is a win-win-win one. Every link in this “chain” either makes or saves money and in the case of saved money, a penny saved is a penny earned!

We look for non-ferrous metals because they are in such high demand. Statistically non-ferrous metals make up about 10% of all the metal that gets recycled. However, they are responsible for half the earnings of the scrap metal recycling industry. You can see, then, why it makes sense to encourage customers to bring in non-ferrous metals.

On the Lookout for Scrap Metal Sellers in L.A.

To keep our business humming we need scrappers like you to sell us your scrap metal. Some scrap metal enthusiasts may pile some aluminum rims in a van and haul it in to us themselves and earn enough for a nice dinner. Others may have more industrial amounts of scrap. When that’s the case, if you don’t have the vehicles to transport your metals, that’s when we become your nearest recycling center. We do have the vehicles and we want your scrap so give us a call!

Keep in mind that there are some metals that scrap yards like ours do not take. Before you bring in your scrap metal it pays to give us a call just to be sure we take a particular metal. The “usual suspects” such as copper, brass and aluminum are always in demand and welcome here are you friendly neighborhood recycling center. So if you’re looking to make some good money by scrapping metals you have on hand, call TM Scrap Metals, the nearest recycling center in Los Angeles. 818-771-0510.

Scrappers of Burbank: there’s a lot going on in your town. We see the progress every time we venture outside the confines of our scrap metal recycling center here in Sun Valley. A cruise down I-5 and we can see the progress on the Burbank Blvd bridge that will soon (once again) span Interstate 5 and connect the two halves of Burbank. Near that bridge construction however, it’s apparent that another big construction project is going on in downtown Burbank. This is the First Street Village project which was begun not too long ago and is slated for completion in 2023. It will occupy the area of downtown Burbank on First Street, from Magnolia to the alley southeast of Palm. The 6-story buildings will house retail shops as well as apartments on the top floors.

That’s not the only construction project going on—not by a long shot. Avion Burbank is the largest construction project in the San Fernando Valley and it looks it. We see it every time we drive down Hollywood Way on our way from Sun Valley to Burbank. This project is nearing completion and will contain warehouses, retail, restaurants and a hotel. The warehouses alone (which will be used by Amazon) total more than 1 million square feet.

There are other projects in the works or being considered by the Burbank City council. All this means a host of construction and all the leftover materials that invariably come with building. Some metal materials used in construction include things like rebar, metal sheathed electrical wires, those bright and shiny copper wires we love so much as well as metal items that may be specific to the design of a particular building. To Burbank or other San Fernando Valley scrappers, we say, if you’ve got a bunch of waste construction materials (metal, of course) or construction or demolition debris, TM Scrap Metals is the destination to bring those metals to for cash!

We mention Burbank in this post since it does border our Sun Valley location and it’s experiencing a spurt of building in these last couple of years, but the same advice could apply to Glendale scrappers, those in Encino or Woodland Hills. If you find yourself in possession of scrap metal, bring it to us! Or (and here’s where we repeat ourselves ad infinitum) we’ll come to you! Yes, we once again promote our mobile metal recycling service, but why not? It’s true and it makes scrapping for cash extremely simple. Call us and we’ll come to you wherever you are in Los Angeles or the San Fernando Valley. 818-771-0510.

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Metal recycling for Burbank California couldn’t be easier. That’s because TM Scrap Metals is located virtually next door to Burbank. In fact it’s a straight shot on Glenoaks Boulevard to our Tuxford Street location in Sun Valley.

Burbank is a famous city–made famous among other things by Johnny Carson when he hosted Tonight Show—and it’s also a city that is home to a lot of motion picture production and post production. Many film related businesses inside of Burbank (and especially the motion picture studios such as Warner Bros.)  Make use of a lot of metal during construction of film sets. Post production companies nowadays use a lot of electronic equipment and editing special-effects. All of these electronics make use of a lot of metal and as technology improves, old equipment is replaced newer more efficient equipment.

What becomes of that old film or TV equipment or set building material? Well, if it’s in the Burbank area a call to TM Scrap Metals means that old equipment can be recycled. In addition, companies that are upgrading their equipment and getting rid of older versions can actually get money back from a metal recycling company such as us.

Electronics are prime source of metal recycling since most electronic devices make use of copper wire. And it’s one of the highest paying scrap metals. Of course insulated wire such as you might find inside electronic equipment will need to be stripped prior to recycling but on the whole copper wire does pay more than other forms of metal.

It’s not just the motion picture industry it has an abundance of metal that could be recycled. Just about any business in the Burbank area will use significant amount of metal in their daily activities. For some, you can go years, or even decades, making use of same electronics or machinery. But for most there’s always an incentive to upgrade to newer, better, faster or more efficient machinery, necessitating disposal of the old. If you fit into that category and are looking for metal recycling Burbank, choose the metal recycling company with the most trusted name locally. We’re proud that that is us: TM Scrap Metals.

Remember also that we offer mobile recycling so we can come to your Burbank home or office to pick up metal you want to recycle. Call us today see the difference that TM Scrap Metals makes. 818-771-0510.

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