Scrap Lead Recycling
If you wish to Buy or Sell Lead Scrap, simply
ADD your inquiry
to the Inter-Continental Metal Exchange.
The exchange service has been successfully matching interested parties on-line since 1995.
If you wish to receive unique trade benefits for Lead scrap, please check-out the enhanced
Trader Access service.
Separating scrap Lead into the different
Grades & Specifications
will allow you to yield the best
value
for your scrap materials.
some current Lead Recycling inquiries.
Reduction in the Use of Lead
At one point gasoline additives were the biggest consumer of lead but environmental sustainability
movements have been the impetus of the removal of lead from gasoline. This depressed the lead market for
several years but eventually became the rise for catalytic convertors.
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) is a directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous
substances in electrical and electronic equipment.
Products compliant with this directive do not exceed the allowable amounts of the following restricted materials: lead, mercury,
cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), with
some limited exemptions.
Directives such as RoHS have lead to the removal of lead from household plumbing alloys, electronics, paints, etc.
The RoHS regulatory requirements have increased the use of
Lead-free solder which is now
almost exclusively used today in consumer electronics.
Lead Recycling Information
For anyone seeking current information or research data on the lead recycling industry,
you may access and ask your
Recycling Questions
to a core group of experienced and knowledgeable recycling industry professionals.
Sources of Lead Scrap
There are many common items manufactured from lead or lead alloys that are a source of lead scrap.
The automotive recycling sector traditionaly has generated large quantities of scrap lead in the form of
Lead Acid Batteries.
During the battery breaking process two common materials recovered are
Battery Plates
and
Battery Post Lugs.
Another auto related item recovered are
wheel weights.
Other lead scrap materials for recycling include
Type Scrap
lead pipe, sheet and
Lead Babitt
generated from scrap bearings.
Lead Dross
If you wish to recycle slag, dross, skimmings or spillings from lead melting operations
you may ADD an inquiry for
Lead Dross
to the Inter-Continental Metal Exchange.
You may also be interested in the recovery of
Solder Dross
droppings and skimmings from solder operations.
Lead Cable Scrap
Lead Covered
Cable Scrap
may be
stripped to separate the lead sheath from the copper wire.
You may wish to learn more about
Wire and Cable
Reclamation
Remelt Ingot
Recovered, remelted metalic lead scrap that is free of slag, dross oxides and other foreign metal types is referred to as
Remelt Lead Ingot.
The most common reason to remelt lead is to liberate it from other metal attachments such as steel.
A typical ingot weights 45 to 60 pounds each and is referred to as a pig. Large remelted blocks weigh around 2,00 lbs. each
and are called sows.
Typesetting Scrap
Once upon a time the typesetting industry generated daily quanities of lead alloy type scrap,
Linotype
MonoType and Block Type.
Print shops, printers of newspapers and newsletters produced continuos outputs of type scrap and
Type Dross.
Residues & Oxide
Finding a market for
Lead Oxide Residue
may be achieved by posting your details to the Lead Recycling Exchange.
Lead Oxides and Lead Residue consist of recovered oxides and fine powders containing high percentages of non-metalic lead (Pb),
Should be free of larger pieces or clumps of metalic lead and may not contain raw
dross
or skimmings.
Scrap Prices
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Scrap Lead Prices
