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{{Short description|Recyclable materials left over from manufactured products after their use}} {{hatnote group|{{about||the documentary film|Scrap (2022 Canadian film)|the drama film|Scrap (2022 American film)|the grade of tobacco|List of tobacco products#Smokeless tobacco}}{{redirect-distinguish|Scrapping|Scrape (disambiguation){{!}}Scraping}}{{redirect|Scrap metal||Scrap Metal (disambiguation)}}}} {{Multiple issues| {{Promotional tone|date=September 2024}} {{Third-party|date=September 2024}} {{Lead too short|date=May 2022}} }} [[File:Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Scrap Piles.jpg|thumb|Piles of scrap metal collected for the [[World War II]] effort, circa 1941]] [[File:Collection of leftover scrap metal items.jpg|thumb|Collection of leftover scrap metal items]] '''Scrap''' consists of [[Recycling|recyclable]] materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike [[waste]], scrap can have [[Waste valorization|monetary value]], especially recovered [[metal]]s, and non-metallic materials are also recovered for recycling. Once collected, the materials are sorted into types β typically metal scrap will be crushed, shredded, and sorted using mechanical processes. Metal recycling, especially of [[structural steel]], [[Ship breaking|ships]], used manufactured goods, such as [[Vehicle recycling|vehicles]] and [[white goods]], is an industrial activity with complex networks of [[wrecking yard]]s, sorting facilities, and recycling plants. The industry includes both formal organizations and a wide range of informal roles such as [[waste picker]]s who help sorting through scrap.
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