Metal Shredding and Sorting: the Process

This film was taken during a tour of a metal shredding, sorting and recycling plant. I apologize for the jerky footage but I was walking while filming. I tried to show the process cranes dropping crushed cars and other scrap metal onto the main conveyor, from which it dropped into the shredder. From that point, different types of metals were sorted using different processes and a system of conveyor belts. The plant interior shows more sorting, cubes of metal ready for shipping and a magnetic crane moving scrap into a barge.

[@NUTTA1997]

awsome! Thanks for posting. Helped my class a lot!

[@mickgrdy]

awesome video

[@TheShowgunofHarlem]

Im surprised the DEP doesnt make you put up the floating barriers around the barge in case some of the debris falls into the water.

[@noahheck2010]

I work here now lmao. Metalico Pittsburg

[@DaywordRacing]

So what happens after that

[@NUTTA1997]

@abhimanyukanodia i meant the class i am in at school. It helped the people in my class a lot.

[@lilylee5218]

we want to buy a production line to process old DC motor, first crashing,then machine sorting, we get different metals separately, for example, brass, steel, aluminium, magnets, some plastic, etc

[@abhimanyukanodia]

@NUTTA1997 - hello, I plz tell me e what class u were talkin bout ? Is dis smethin regarding metal business or wat ? thank u....

[@MichelLinschoten]

I used to do this for 10 years, average we did on a day was close to 1000 tons

[@jorgealmeida5683]

ĺl

[@blueclickpenwillis4948]

Why does this operation have to be so close to a river? It looks like metal is going into the river and nobody cares. Someone should care to stop it. If you don't take care of water,it has a way of getting you back.

[@metalstunter]

Metal wont intoxicate water...

[@KathrynMorse]

The audio is terrible and detracts from the learning experience.

[@klydolph2]

Bad camerawork, bad audio