iron scrap
Foundry recycling material
Iron scrap is discarded or leftover iron and steel material—old appliances, demolished structures, manufacturing waste—collected for recycling.
Scrap yards buy and process it; steelmakers melt it down for new products.
The term often appears as scrap iron, with the words reversed: The junkyard was piled high with scrap iron.
- metalHard conductive solid
- rustIron oxide coating
- rust bucketBadly corroded vehicle
- junkyardSalvage storage site
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
recycling · shavings · foundry · melt · corroded · debris · steel · scrapyard · filings · waste · forge · smelter · oxidized · metal fatigue · twisted · industrial · slag · discarded