Why Recycling Your Old Battery Metal Scrap Is The Best Option?

Throwing your batteries in usual recycling bins or public trash is harmful as they consist of highly toxic elements. Such disposed batteries contain scrap metal elements like lead and mercury that contaminate drinking water if left to deteriorate in a landfill. So what is the solution? Recycling battery scrap metals.

Recycling Household Batteries

Usual household batteries can be recycled at scrap metal yards that accept them. Recycling batteries give two benefits. One, you prevent environment degradation that leads to consequences like contamination of food and water when disposed in trash. Two, you earn money by recycling redundant metal scraps like batteries. So it is a win-win for you.

Tips to get good worth for old batteries and for safety-

• Store the dead batteries in dry places that cannot be accessed by kids.
• Store batteries for recycling with tapes wrapped over their ends. This prevents acid leakage from batteries which is dangerous. 

Recycling Rechargeable Batteries

Use of rechargeable batteries is a good thing as it decreases the amount waste and energy that is produced during usage and manufacturing of new batteries. However, rechargeable battery metal scraps have more toxic substances. Hence, it becomes even more important to have these recycled at scrap metal yards than dumping them in landfills. Similarly, you can recycle old car battery metal scrap.

Do you have lots of metal scrap that occupies your space at home or office? Our Scrap metals Qatar team will help you recycle all the old and useless metal scrap you have for a good return as well as make your home and office spacious. Contact us now!

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Recycling At Home Gets Easy With These Easy Tips

Recycling is as important as accommodating the right things at home. We enlist here some quick and easy tips so that you can start recycling at home.

The tips are as follows for different material recycling from metal scraps to plastic bottles.  

Aluminum cans – If the value of using aluminum cans is huge, recycling them is equally important. In order to get the most value in terms of environment welfare, you need to know the mode of crushing the recycling centers use. Same is the case with aluminum foils. They form a great product to be recycled to manufacture electronic items.

Magazines and pamphlets – Similar to newspapers; you can store magazines and pamphlets in a separate bin and then recycle them.

Food carton boxes – Many use food cartons which get piled up after some point of time thus occupying home space and rendering very less space to store important things. You will be happy to hear that food cartons are easily recyclable materials. Just store them separately and give it to recycling centers which accept them.

Plastic bottles – In order to ease the process of recycling, categorize your trash into two parts. The first includes trash to be thrown away and second includes bottles to be recycled. As you know, plastic bottles are made up of PET plastic which is regarded a vital recyclable material.

Hence, I have shown you the way as to how recycling begins at your home. So take a pledge and start recycling today!

Got an old car that is scrap? We’ll tell you how it can be made useful

Consider a pair of old junk car seats like these-
 

You can turn them into comfortable office chairs with very little effort-

Fascinating, isn’t it?

And it is easy too. Here is a step-by-step guide:

1. Detach the redundant car seats
2. Get enough spray adhesive
3. Get spray paints, associated hardware and a rust remover.
4. Use the spray paints to give the old car seats a fresh and sophisticated look.
5. Utilize the rust remover to make the seats rust-free.
6. Use associated hardware to convert into office chairs.

That isn’t all you can do with scrap car parts. There are lots of other things you can do with junked car scraps to get something useful and beautiful. Here are a few: 

Create vintage flower art!

 

This creative art can be easily made by using old car license plates and a door knob! All you need to do is assemble the junked license plates and door knob in the way shown above. Soon you will see how this adage comes live- “A car’s waste is another person’s treasure!” 

Make a work-table

We understand the pain a car owner goes through after witnessing the breakage of car’s exterior over a period of time because of rusting. However, as you find treasures from a sinking ship, here too lies a treasure! Above is a brilliant example of how you can convert old car parts into gorgeous new furniture. All you need to do is get old rusted car doors like above. Assemble the door with a few wooden strands as shown above and you have a sturdy table ready to use! 

Or an artsy industrial vase

You’ve recycled the seats. And the license plates. And the rusted door. What else is left to recycle?

All the tiny metal bits and ends that hold the cars together. Weld them together to create an industrial-style vase. Or use them to make a striking showpiece or a vintage holder!

Head-lamps can be useful too

We personally love this marvelous table lamp assembled using an upcycled car headlight. You can see, the rouge retro headlight consists of dings and scratches thus showing how beautifully it has aged. Although it is worn out, it gives the lamp a vintage feel. To create this at home, assemble an old car headlight with a stand and a switch and a pivoting mechanism.

These old reclaimed car parts will lend a neat, industrial look to your home’s décor.

Or if you are not into DIY, you can consider recycling your car by selling it at the scrap yard. Car parts are mostly steel which is the most common metal and hence does not fetch much at the scrap yard. But you can get a good price for your scrap if you call up scrap yards in your area beforehand to enquire about their prices. In our experience, scrap yards pay more when you sell scrap in bulk.

At Lucky Group we actively encourage metal recycling and upcycling in Dubai.

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