Recycling and reusing metal is not something that began with the recent Sustainable Living Movement. Scrap Metal Buyers Philadelphia have been picking up metal from homeowners since the horse and buggy days. That’s how S.D. Richman Sons started in Philadelphia in 1901. Today, four generations later that company is one of the largest scrap metal buyers and recyclers in the city. Their business is fueled by the growth in China, India and the Middle East and by a less vibrant economy at home. Caught in a slow-growth business climate, many local tradesmen have become scrap metal peddlers. They collect scrap metal from vacant sites and building renovations and bring it to Scrap metal buyers Philadelphia. They receive cash payments for their metallic loads. At the 20-acre S.D. Richman Sons site, there are huge piles of steel, aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel and nickel alloys.
As cities and regions grapple with the problems of solid waste management, they are aided by the value of metals. Peddlers who know the worth of a refrigerator or even an aluminum can, scour the city. When they find a valuable piece of metal it is quickly put in the back of their pickup truck. This industry, very similar to the one that buys precious metal jewelry for scrap, relies upon the honesty of the Scrap metal buyers Philadelphia. The peddlers need a fair price to buy food and pay the mortgage. The police and construction sites need to know that scrap yards are not purchasing stolen goods. The cash that pays a peddler’s mortgage can also pay for a junkie’s fix. Instead of breaking into a home to steal a television, the copper piping in a building is the target.
Scrap Metal Buyers Philadelphia don’t process or recycle the metals they collect. As it arrives, it is organized according to the type of metal. It’s then cleaned and cut down to a size that makes it easily transported. Their end customers are the the huge United States steel mills as well as those around the world. In the case of S.D. Richman Sons they carefully located their scrap metal yard to take full advantage of Interstate 95 and the Conrail railroad line. Their scrap metal takes a recycling journey from the side streets of Philadelphia, into their scrap yard, through the transportation system of the Northeast, to the steel mills of the world.
