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Scrap is a term used to describe recyclable materials left over from every manner of product consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Often confused with waste, scrap in fact has significant monetary value.

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Crushed cars on their way to be melted into new steel

Overall, the scrap industry processes more than 145,000,000 short tons (129,464,286 long tons; 131,541,787 t) of recyclable material each year into raw material feedstock for industrial manufacturing around the world. One example is scrap steel.

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  • Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Scrap Piles

    Piles of scrap metal collected for the World War II effort, circa 1941

  • Collection of leftover scrap metal items

    Collection of leftover scrap metal items

  • Autowreckers

    The "organized chaos" of a scrapyard

  • Day 56 - West Midlands Police tackling metal theft

    British police investigating possibly-stolen metal at a scrapyard

  • Scrap Metal (Eugene, Oregon)

    Loading scrap gondolas in Eugene, Oregon

  • Veolia Miljø Metall (2881088183)

    Pile of shredded scrap in Norway

  • Fence post

    Scrap railway line repurposed as farm fencing corner post

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    Scrap metal rusts in the snow (Finland)

  • CompactedSteelScraps

    A pile of steel scrap in Brussels, waiting to be recycled

  • VIEW FROM CARTERET, NJ, ACROSS THE ARTHUR KILL TO STATEN ISLAND SCRAPYARD AND SHIP GRAVEYARD - NARA - 551997

    Ship breaking operations on Staten Island (c. 1973)

  • I Need Your Scrap Metal Art.IWMPST14749

    Poster for World War II scrap collection campaign

  • Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont.1a35037v

    Scrap depot (Butte, Montana, United States)

  • ANewFlyerBusUnderAllThatJunkInSimsMetalScrapYard

    This pile of mixed scrap includes an old bus

  • Steel recycling bales

    Compressed bales consisting mostly of tin cans

  • Locomotives stacked for scrapping

    British Rail locomotives stacked awaiting scrapping

  • Stacked cars in city junkyard will be used for scrap - nara - 552739 retuschiert

    Flattened cars stacked near Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States)

  • "A compact car"

    A single compacted car (Finland)

  • Car Cubes (3463695956)

    Stacked cubed cars (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

  • CompactedSteelScraps

    Compacted scrap pile (Austria)

  • Varia (15966651796)

    Rhine River scrap barge (Basel, Switzerland)

  • ВП погрузка металлолома

    Scrap transfers (Feodosiya, Crimea)

  • Bremen Hafen E Schrottumschlag

    Scrap awaiting export (Bremen, Germany)

  • North Africa 2007 163 Truck

    Scrap metal hauler (Libya)

  • Deritend Car Park

    Partition made of compacted cars (Birmingham, England)

  • Dublin 6

    A train awaits scrappage (Dublin, Ireland)

  • NYC subway cars used as artificial reef

    New York City Subway cars being dumped at sea to enlarge an artificial reef (South Carolina, United States)

  • Scrap paper dealer in Chandigarh

    Scrap paper dealer (Chandigarh, India)

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