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Show nSy Steel Cans Recycled Induce CPPeH MORE THAN 150,000 TONS of scrap steel cans and trimmings from the manufacture of cans are unloaded annually by this electromagnet at a new processing plant in Vinton, Texas, operated by Proler Steel Corporation. Cor-poration. After shredding and roasting, the more than 2 billion steel cans are shipped to copper mines in New Mexico and Arizona where they are mixed with low grade, copper-bearing ore in a chemical solution. In the process, steel cans dissolve and copper is recovered. re-covered. About 15 percent of U. S. copper is produced by this method. Most steel cans reclaimed in the western west-ern states many salvaged from municipal garbage by magnetic separation are used in the production of copper. It takes three ton's of steel cans to recover one ton of copper. |