Your Burbank recycling center is TM Scrap Metals in neighboring Sun Valley. In fact you can’t get any closer to Burbank and still be another city. That’s what makes us so convenient.

For Burbank residents or businesses that want to recycle non-ferrous metals for cash, we’re the location you want to hard-code into that GPS device? Why? Convenience, for one thing. Our Tuxford Street location is only minutes from Burbank. One straight shot up Glenoaks Blvd and a turn onto Tuxford and you’re here!

Burbank Recycle Center may be a familiar term to Burbank citizens, but try to get cash for your scrap metals inside the Burbank city limits and you’ll be disappointed. With only a few minutes’ drive from the Media City you can turn those non-ferrous metals into dollars. It’s a win-win proposition since we get the scrap metals we need and you get rid of the metals you DON’T need. Plus you walk away with money in your pocket. It doesn’t get better than that, does it?

Non-Ferrous Metal Recycling Near Burbank

While TM Scrap Metals can be literally anywhere in Southern California and the greater Los Angeles area thanks to our mobile recycling service, many people—especially those in Burbank, Glendale and surrounding areas—opt to bring their metals to us. We’re close. We’re convenient. We pay cash for scrap.

What’s the best scrap metal to recycle with us? It’s the non-ferrous metals that are the best paying and in the highest demand. As we’ve stated before in earlier Burbank recycling center posts non-ferrous metals (things like aluminum, nickel, lead, tin, brass, silver, or zinc) are those metals that do not contain any (or much) iron. One way to determine the type of metal (ferrous or non-ferrous) is by using a magnet. A magnet will attach itself to ferrous metals like iron but not to non-ferrous metals like copper or brass.

While you may only be interested in how much a particular metal pays per pound or ton, you may be interested to know why these types of metals are in demand. Many non-ferrous metals share characteristics such as tensile strength and corrosion resistance.  Properties like these mean these metals are useful for many purposes. Recycling these metals means, of course, that they don’t have to be created from scratch—a costly and time-consuming process. Manufacturers would much rather melt down preexisting metals to utilize in their needs and recycling centers like TM Scrap Metals provide the scrap those companies need. You, as the recycler (or scrapper) play a key role in providing those materials (non-ferrous metals) in the first step of the recycling process.

In Burbank and the surrounding area, scrappers like you need a recycling center to deal with and once again that’s us. Have you got non-ferrous metals you need to get rid of while making cash in the bargain? Call us at TM Scrap Metals or just drop your metals off at our Sun Valley location. Cash for scrap. It’s a beautiful concept!

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Recycling centers such as TM Scrap Metals have a system in place to quickly and efficiently recycle the various metals our customers bring to us. Others have codified this process such as this small business website that does a good job of explaining the steps, but in brief, metal recycling can be broken down into around 6 steps.

First, there is the Collection phase. This entails individuals or businesses bringing their scrap metal to a recycling center such as TM Scrap Metals. As stated on thebalancesmb.com site metal from scrap vehicles is the largest source of scrap ferrous metal in the United States.

Two: After delivery and collection of metals comes the sorting phase. As you can probably imagine having a bunch of metals all in the same pile is not going to do anyone any good. The metals need to be separated one from another and this is accomplished through sorting. There are many different methods and tools a scrap metal yard may employee to sort different metals, and we have alluded to some of those such as using a magnet. Some metals have a distinct color such as copper and are easy–or easier–to separate from other metals. Another concern at this step is the separation of clean from dirty metals.  Clean metals which come without blemishes or foreign substances on them obviously will bring a higher price those that do have those things.

The third step is called processing. At a scrap metal yard all different types and sizes of metal objects may come through our gates. In order to facilitate the next step– Melting–a shredder maybe used to turn metal objects into smaller pieces. Smaller pieces of metal melt at a quicker rate and it’s therefore more efficient, which saves money.

Fourth phase as we mentioned is melting and each metal melts at a different temperature. This means specific metals will go to specific furnaces  with temperatures designed to mount those specific metals. After the melting phase comes purification. The step is designed to eliminate contaminants in the metal. Once that’s complete and the metal is poured into various molds it enters the sixth phase or solidification. Once hardened into ingots or bars, all of uniform shape, it can be transported to industry to be used in new products.

This is just a brief overview of the process and doesn’t take into account problems and challenges that confront the metal recycling Center. One of those challenges is the complexity of products nowadays and thebalancesmb.com uses the example of the cell phone which contains more than 70 different types of metal.  Extracting every single metal in a cell phone as you can see, is a challenging and difficult process.

Challenges for L.A. Recycling Centers

Other challenges include methods of separation. For example the magnet is useful for separating ferrous metals out of a particular supply—metals like iron or steel. However nonferrous metals such as stainless steel have no magnetic properties and therefore a magnet would have no effect on them. The fact that it doesn’t attract these types of metals does, though, give a scrap metal dealer an idea that metal in question is indeed nonferrous, so in an indirect way of does help with separation.

We hope you can see the complexities that confront recycling centers in Los Angeles and indeed throughout the nation. The various steps in the recycling process may give you an insight into why we pay a certain amount for a specific metal as opposed to another one, or a clean metal versus a dirty one. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you won’t ever have to think about this, merely bring your scrap metal to us at TM Scrap Metals or have us come to you through our mobile recycling feature. We’ll do the rest and pay cash for your scrap.

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Scrap metal recycling near you is a good idea for a variety of reasons. We already have several posts about the benefits of recycling scrap metal and specifically for those individuals and businesses in Los Angeles. There is another item that we have not yet mentioned and that is that there is a way to offset carbon emissions.

With regulations in place requiring some companies to reduce their carbon footprint substantially it’s important that these companies take the necessary steps to do so. In some instances, like the University of Berkeley, they weren’t able to meet all their carbon reduction goals. In their case they were prompted to pay other companies  a certain amount as incentives make those companies reduce their carbon footprint. If Berkeley was not able to do it then these other companies were able to achieve reduction which amounted to an overall carbon emissions reduction.

One of the other ways to achieve a reduction in carbon emissions is through recycling, and specifically the recycling  of scrap metals. Finding a scrap metal recycling center in Los Angeles where you can bring items will help your company’s goals for emission reduction such as a “zero to landfill” policy. Recycling rather than dumping metal waste helps to eliminate pollution.

Los Angeles is a huge city spanning many square miles and it’s important to find a scrap metal dealer that you can work with to achieve these emission reduction goals. As we’ve said before, one of the best things about working with TM Scrap Metals in the Burbank area is that no matter where you are in greater Los Angeles, our mobile recycling option allows you to call us and we’ll take care of picking up the scrap metal. That also saves on emissions in that you do not have to haul all that scrap metal to the recycling center.

If you are a company in Los Angeles, Burbank or other San Fernando Valley city, and you need to look into carbon emission offsets, call TM Scrap Metals and let us figure out a solution for you.

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A scrap metal recycling business isn’t something you often associate with happiness (although it should be!) but what we do here in our corner of Los Angeles should be cause for some celebration. What we mean by this is that you can feel good about recycling your scrap metal with us for many reasons.

Aside from the prices we pay for scrap metal (which translates into cash in your pocket) there are more altruistic reasons to feel good about bringing your scrap to TM Scrap Metals. We’ve touched on some of those aspects in earlier posts and many are listed by other recycling organizations such as wheelsforwishes.org but they always bear repeating since who knows which article someone will happen upon when looking for scrap metal recycling in Los Angeles.

The three main reasons to recycle are that metals can be reused (melted down again and again) without any degradation. A recycled metal is just as good as one newly-dug-up from the earth. Second, it costs far less to recycle a metal than to mine it. Third, by recycling scrap metal, the need to mine those metals decreases. We should add (and have done so earlier) that recycling metals delays using up valuable landfill space.

Recycling Metal in Los Angeles

Los Angeles recycling centers perform the same service as other private scrap metal yards around the country so really the only decision you have to make is to decide how convenient your metal recycler is to you. In Burbank our recycling center is just a few minutes’ drive. We’re also convenient to other San Fernando Valley cities. But with TM Scrap Metals distance really isn’t a factor because we offer mobile recycling. That’s correct, we come to you! If you have scrap metal you want to recycle for cash you need only call us to schedule a pick up. That means we’re you Burbank recycling center, your Glendale recycling center, Van Nuys recycling center and really your whole San Fernando Valley recycling center. With mobile scrap metal recycling we make feeling good about yourself even easier.

Recycling really is an occasion to celebrate. We at TM Scrap Metals can help you feel good about the environment as well as your wallet. Call us today at 818-771-5010.

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A Los Angeles recycling center like TM Scrap Metals sees a lot of different metals come through our doors. It should come as no surprise that one of the top metals we recycle is aluminum from aluminum cans. Aside from being lightweight and relatively easy to collect in exchange for cash, aluminum cans, when recycled, also save a lot of energy. It’s just one more reason that scrap metal recycling company like us performs a valuable service that you may not have thought about period

There’s a wealth of information online about recycling, scrap metal and the benefits of reusing these materials. The website lessismore.com provides an overview of recycling benefits as does the Waste Management website. These are only two out of hundreds if not thousands of websites dedicated to and promoting the idea of recycling.

In Los Angeles and indeed all of California we have seen power outages as well as rolling brown outs, especially during summer months, as a result of us using too much electricity. Anything that can help reduce the drain on our power grid is welcome and that is precisely what scrap metal recycling does.

 It takes much less energy to turn a scrap metal such as aluminum into another product. In the case of aluminum cans it takes 95% less energy to melt them down and make new aluminum cans that it would take to create aluminum cans from all new materials. As the Waste Management website points out, recycling a ton of aluminum six 14,000 kW of energy and something like 1,600 gallons of oil. Those are resources that do not have to be used because we are recycling.

You may never have thought about the amount of energy saved by recycling scrap metal but it’s food for thought. Every ton of metal that you bring to a scrap metal recycling center like TM Scrap Metals in Los Angeles means thousands of gallons of fuel and thousands of kilowatts of energy can be used elsewhere. If you need to recycle scrap metal in Burbank, Los Angeles or San Fernando valley area call TM Scrap Metals. And remember we have a mobile recycling service so we can come to you matter where you are.

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Scrap metal recycling in Los Angeles is an odd thing to write about as having stars. We’re using the term stars here as in movie stars. Then again, being in Southern California and so close to Hollywood perhaps we can indeed use the term. Scrap metal recycling is not the most glamorous thing you could imagine but even this industry has its top performers and one of those is brass.

You may not give much thought to brass but it’s one of the more higher-paying scrap metals for a number of reasons. First and foremost, brass is not as readily available some other metals such as aluminum, copper or even stainless steel. One other reason is that it’s more cost-effective to recycle scrap brass then it is to create brass anew. If you recall your high school chemistry, brass is a combination basically of copper and zinc melted together. Other elements may be added to this to give brass extra strength but at its most basic it is combination of zinc and copper. You can see how it’s easier to melt down a batch of scrap brass and repurpose it.

For those would-be scrappers who want to get top dollar for their scrap metals, brass is often good idea. You may have to hunt for sources of brass but you can find it in places like light fixtures, handrails, locking mechanisms and bolts. The whole process of making something from scrap metals is quite interesting and that’s why we include this video of brass being created at a foundry from scrap copper with some zinc added.

If you’re looking for the Best Price on brass recycling in the Los Angeles or San Fernando Valley area, contact us here at TM Scrap Metals, your Burbank scrap metal recycling center.

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Scrap metal recycling is not the most glamorous or well-known business in Burbank, California. Many Los Angeles residents may not even give it a second thought. However, you may want to look into your local scrap metal recycling facility because you may be sitting on a gold mine. Well, perhaps not a gold mine but a copper, aluminum, brass or steel mine maybe hiding right in your very own backyard or inside your home.

Environmental Reasons for Scrap Metal Recycling

There are a variety of reasons why you would want to use a local scrap metal recycling yard, one of which his concern for the environment. Anytime you take something and recycle it (that is, reusing it for another, new purpose) you’re keeping whatever it is out of landfills. The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA for short notes on their website that total amount of trash—what’s called MSW for municipal solid waste—is almost 300,000,000 tons per year for the United States. This statistic doesn’t even take into account other sources of trash such as debris from construction or demolition so the totals for the amount of waste going into American landfills may be much higher.

Landfills, the places where are we actually throw things away, tend to fill up rapidly because of the amount of waste that we generate. Any efforts to reduce this amount, through things like recycling, is helpful. And recycling any scrap metal that you have on hand contributes to a reduction in waste levels.

Making Money Through Scrap Metal Recycling

If the altruistic reason for scrap metal recycling wasn’t enough, there is another lucrative reason to take advantage of this process. Quite simply scrap metal recycling yards such as TM scrap metals in the Burbank, California area will pay you for your various metals. Every type of metal has a value. Some are worth more per pound than others. For example, copper is a more expensive metal then aluminum. However some metals may be in greater supply than others. Just think about the number of aluminum soft drink cans that are produced annually. Thank also of the number of these you find on the side of the road. It’s no wonder so many people save their aluminum drink cans for recycling. It’s an easy way to get some extra cash. And while aluminum cans may be the most common element that gets recycled, really any other type of metal can be recycled and a recycling center will pay a certain amount for any of these metals.

Some metals will come in different forms such as coated wires, tubes or things like Romex wires, and each is going to have its own unique price per pound. Scrap metal prices will very from day today so it’s incumbent on you to check the prices in your area to estimate what amount you may get from recycling. You can also check out pages such as TM Scrap Metal’s scrap pricing page or by doing a search for something like “scrap metal prices Los Angeles.”

Whether you decide to use a scrap metal recycling company such as ours for environmental reasons or simply for the financial benefit it pays—literally—to work with a trusted name in Los Angeles scrap metal recycling. In the Burbank area that’s us: TM scrap metals.

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