Scrap Metal

Large metal household items can be brought to all Household Recycling Centres for recycling. Metal is one of the easiest metals to recycle and uses up much less resources than making it from raw materials. 

There are thousands of uses of recycled metal whether it's drinks cans or car parts from aluminium, bike frames or bridges from steel and even musical instruments from copper.

Most metals keep their quality through multiple recycling processes, so an old bed frame could be recycled again and again without the need for new materials.

Did you know recycling metal can save up to 95% of the energy it takes to make it from raw materials

Buckinghamshire is the destination for all the scrap metal collected at household Recycling Centres

2,500 tonnes of scrap metal is recycled from Buckinghamshire homes each year