Steel retains an extremely high overall recycling rate which in 2014 stood at 86 percent.
Stainless steel recycling rate.
Even after being recycled multiple times steel retains its quality.
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Less than one third of 60 studied have a recycling rate above 50 per cent though many are crucial to clean technologies such as batteries for hybrid cars or magnets in wind turbines.
Each year more steel is recycled than aluminum copper paper glass and plastic combined.
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Stainless steel is 100 recyclable.
The amazing metallurgical properties of steel allow it to be recycled continually with no degradation in performance and from one product to another.
The price of stainless will usually be determined by the amount of nickel in the product along with current iron and nickel spot prices.
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Recycling rates of metals are far lower than potential for reuse.
As with aluminum stainless also has over 150 different alloyed types but only less than 20 are commonly mentioned in recycling most often 304 and 316.
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