Environment

Recycling Copper
Copper in Drinking Water
Copper and the Natural Environment

Recycling Copper

Technical Reports

The U.S. Copper-base Scrap Industry and Its By-products – 2007 [PDF-744 KB]
For nearly 5,000 years, copper was the only metal known to man. Today, it’s one of the most used and reused of our “modern” metals.

An easy to read discussion on copper recycling by the British Copper Development Association.

An in-depth collection of articles in Innovations, our on-line e-zine, on how copper is recycled in individual products such as roofs, radiators, etc.

Trends in US copper alloy scrap and effects of product shifts

Copper alloy scrap provides about half of the copper consumed in the United States each year...<more>