scrap iron
Metal for recycling
Scrap iron is discarded or waste iron and steel collected for recycling or reprocessing.
Junkyards accumulate scrap iron from demolished buildings, old machinery, and abandoned vehicles.
The material is melted down and reused in manufacturing: The foundry buys scrap iron by the ton.
Also called scrap metal when referring more broadly to recyclable metals.
- metalHard conductive solid
- junkyardSalvage storage site
- rustIron oxide coating
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- recyclingReprocessing used materials
metal recycling · shredder · steel · scrapyard · crusher · magnet · foundry · melt · wreckage · debris · heap · pile · pickup · truck · ton · bale · oxidized · corroded
- ironferrous, ferric, ferrite, hematite, magnetite
- scrap metalsteel, copper, aluminum, brass, bronze
- scrapyardjunkyard, scrapyard, salvage yard, wrecking yard, boneyard
- scrap recyclingscrapyard, scrapyards, junkyard, junk yards, salvage yard