Statewide Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Workshop Metals Recycling.

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Statewide Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Workshop Metals Recycling

Nucor A Steel and Steel Products Company The largest recycling company in the Western Hemisphere Scrap Yards Steel Mills – bar, structural, sheet Fasteners Building Systems

Nucor Steel Gallatin Who Are We? 400+ Teammates working together An Electric Arc Furnace Steel Recycler Hot Rolled carbon steel producer A Gallatin County community member

Cultural and Environmental Stewards Stewardship at Nucor Steel Gallatin Student Earth Day Earth Day Celebration Adopt a Highway River Sweep

Student Earth Day

Earth Day Celebration

Adopt A Highway

Ohio River Sweep

Recycling Purpose KnowledgeEasy Teamwork

Recycling – Purpose $

Recycling – Knowledge

Recycling – Made Easy Plastic Bottles and Aluminum Cans Paper and Light Weight Cardboard

Recycling – Made Easy

Recycling – Teamwork

Recycling Manage Process Purchase

Scrap is Not Waste Recycling is Not Disposal Environmental Benefits of Steel Recycling Reduced: Consumption of Water Air Pollution Water Pollution Energy Usage Raw Materials

Recycling one ton of steel conserves: 2500 pounds of iron ore 1400 pounds of coal 120 pounds of limestone (USGS Study) Environmental Benefits of Steel Recycling

A viable steel recycling infrastructure Discourages open dumping of steel containing items Motivates people to clean up steel items along roadsides, in creeks, and fields Keeps valuable material out of landfills

River Metals Recycling Largest scrap metal processor in Kentucky Over 350 Employees Recycle over 1.8 billion pounds of steel metal (including over 80,000 cars) Recycle over 35 million pounds of aluminum scrap

River Metals Recycling * Louisville * Newport * Owensboro * Paducah * Somerset

Nucor Steel Gallatin In 2016 Our 400+ Teammates have: Used 1.5 billion pounds of recycled steel Produced over 30,000 coils of carbon steel Sold over 200 Million pounds of slag Recycled over 18 Million pounds of dust

Largest Recycling Company in the Western Hemisphere Over 19 Million Tons of Scrap melted in 2013

Recycling