ACCEPTABLE ITEMS:
- #1, #2 Heavy Melting Steel
- #1, #2 Bundles
- Turnings (subject to inspection/approval)
- Cast Steel
- Cast Iron
- Plate and Structural Steel
- Car/Truck Bodies, Whole or Parts
- Tin/Appliances
- Steel Cans and Drums
- Busheling
- Industrial Clippings
PROHIBITED ITEMS:
In order to comply with Federal, State and Local Safety and Environmental Laws and/or regulations, the following items will not be accepted at our facility without prior inspection and approval:
- Product containing printed circuit boards or other electronic scrap
Electronic scrap can be recycled at Sims: 1600 Harvester Road
West Chicago IL 60185 (630) 231 6060
- Asbestos or asbestos containing materials such as pipe or I-Beam insulation
- Gasoline tanks, oil filters of engine blocks unless the oil is drained..
- Tanks, vessels and containers of all sizes unless they are certified to be clean.
- Water reactive metals such as sodium, potassium, and lithium.
- Military scrap of any kind unless it is inspected and approved in advance.
- Railroad scrap unless accompanied by the appropriate ownership documentation.
- Live ammunition or explosive materials.
- Radioactive materials or containers.
- Products containing mercury, including mercury switches.
- Compressed gas cylinders, including propane bottles.
- Used Acetelyene Tanks
- Oils, other petroleum products and petroleum by-products.
- Any other hazardous materials, hazardous wastes, or universal waste.
- Contaminated steel turnings. (Light cutting oil from the machining process OK)
