Scrap Metal Recycling Yards

Colorful and chaotic scenes from various scrap metal recycling yards filled with heaps of metal waste under blue skies.

Bulldozer compacter working in a landfill in Boise, Idaho.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh - 20 October 2020: Aerial view of a bulldozer operating in a big wasting dump at Mutual Waste treatment plant, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Schrottplatz, Altmetall zum Recycling, Alteisen, Metallschrott

Waste, combustible wood waste and chipboard, in a waste disposal plant

A container filled with electronics on a recycling plant, Sweden.

Cars on the scrap site of a car recycling cars on a scrap site of a car recycling in an industrial area in Magdeburg

Bags with single-variety plastic waste, in a recycling plant, Germany, Europe

Scrap metal, various small engines, for recycling

Bags with single-variety plastic waste, in a recycling plant, Germany, Europe

Beverage cans and tin cans on a stockpile in a recycling plant

Chattogram, Bangladesh - 12 February 2024: View of a young boy amidst a vast, textured landfill, the bright yellow and orange of excavators contrasting sharply against the somber tones of waste.

Piles of metal for recycling

Marble Granite and marble stone warehouse yard ,property released Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 6827459 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Old car tyres lie on stockpiles for recycling

Industrial recycling at the Marborg plant in Santa Barbara.

Blech packages on a scrapplat tin packages on a scrap site

After workers at the ERC clean and sort the post's water supply of plastic bottles, as well as others sources of plastic, the material is crushed and processed through a baler for storage, transport and sale at Arifjan, Kuwait, November 30, 2022.

Man in vehicle loading stacks of recycled paper on to lorry

Industrial recycling Big bags of sorted material for recycling Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 6856770

Aerial view of a recycling plant where bales of paper, cardboard, and loose paper create a textured landscape of whites and browns, Berlin, Germany.

Hurricane Katrina, Empire, LA, December 7, 2005 - Trucks line up to unload debris collected from Plaquenmines Parish, LA. This debris grinding operation reduces the volume of material by four times. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

Maulbronn, rubbish dump, rubbish site, dredger, dredging at rubbish site

View from the crane pulpit in the waste bunker one garbage heating plant 1074706564

Scrap yard, scrap metal on stockpile in a recycling plant

Aerial view of excavators dwarfed by a vast, textured landfill, teeming with figures amidst the sprawling waste, Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.

Plastics selection in a trash transfer plant Gava Barcelona Catalunya

Dhaka, Bangladesh - 20 October 2020: Aerial view of a bulldozer operating in a big wasting dump at Mutual Waste treatment plant, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Aerial view of traditional fishing boat in Tombo city on Yawri bay, Sierra Leone.

A waste sorting facility. Processing paper.

Rabat waste sorting plant. Recycling and sorting of household waste at the plant. Automatic sorting line. Environmental Safety Rabat waste sorting plant. Recycling and sorting of household waste at the plant. Automatic sorting line Copyright: xZoonar.com/xx 13973243

Aerial view of scrap metals and finished steel products at a modern steel producing facility on the shores of Lake Michigan in Indiana.

Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 12, 2012 The Port Authority of New Jersey suffered severe damages to their car ports from Hurricane Sandy. At this demolition site the cars are drained of their fluids and crushed into cubes for metal recycling. Adam DuBrowa/FEMA. New Jersey Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Schrottplatz, Metallabfälle Lager in einem Recyclingbetrieb

Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Waste paper bales in a recycling plant

Crushed cars in scrap yard UK

Bale of recyclable shredded office paper at a sorting centre, Quebec, Canada, North America

Debris in Garment Factory Scattered Debris in Garment Factory After Fire Damage Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 9335492

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Dhaka, Bangladesh - 10 September 2025: View of a gleaming heap of metallic rings contrasting with the weathered wood and the river's edge, under a muted sky.

Scrap Metal Pile of Scrap Metal and Digger at Recycling facility Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 12705034

Sammeltonnen, Sammelcontainer für Altpapier

Worker standing near truck dumping waste at landfill site

Mass of aluminium cans being processed at a recycling plant.

Waste paper, unsold books are disposed of by the pallet, for recycling

Old broken printers and copiers for scrap

Digger working at landfill site

Abandoned Industrial Building with Bricks

Greifkran Takes the Garbage at to Incineration in A Waste-to-Energy Power Plant 1074706566

Insufflation of Cellulose wadding for internal insulation

Shredded paper is shown piling up in the back of a truck of shredding contractor Confidential Records while the contractor was working with members of the Fort McCoy Directorate of Human Resources to hold a paper records shredding and recycling event Oct. 19, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The records manager for Fort McCoy is responsible for the destruction of documents that have met their disposition that are in records holding. The destruction, or shredding, of documents occurs twice a year once in spring and once in fall.

Garbage machines unload garbage on a municipal dump

Piles of scrap metal with a crane, Scotland

Old manual typewriters repairing Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox -

Man wearing hardhat standing with arms crossed in front of rubber tires at recycling plant

Metallic waste chain sorting in a dechettery France

Wire Carts Carboard Stacked Carboard Boxes in Wire Carts Recycling Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 14348947

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Life jackets at the waste disposal site near Molivos, Lesbos, Greece, Europe

Scrap Metal Lot

Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Crushed vehicles at recycling plant

Portrait of female technician at recycling yard of aluminium

Sorting chain of a recycling site for household waste.

waste scrap with engine motorcycle old rust ,heap of old rusty metal wheel rims in the car drum wheel vehicle waste

Schrottplatz, hier alte Autofelgen zur Wiederverwertung in einem Recyclingbetrieb

Old tin tanks stacked, for recycling

DEU, Germany: Historical slides from the 84-85 r years, Duisburg. Thssenkrupp steelworks. ca. 1984. scrap

Scrap yard, here old car rims for reuse in a recycling plant

Scrapyard with wheel hubs, caravans and crushed cars, Sweden

Inpuncto Workshops of Lebenshilfe Dresden

Derelict stock of tires in the woods France

Paper Recycling Industry

Chattogram, Bangladesh - 25 November 2025: Aerial view of a massive landfill with heavy machinery juxtaposed against the distant glimmering ocean and green fields.

emale engineer in shipping yard

A Pile Of Tires

A forklift stacks tires in the back lot of the Defense Property Disposal Office. Base: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Man using tablet PC in front of rubber tires at recycling center

Workers open trash bags containing polystyrene waste from fast food restaurants and place it on conveyor belt at Plastics Again, a polystyrene recycling plant in Leominster, Massachusetts. Workers are recent immigrants from Vietnam.

Scrap heap along the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal at Ghent seaport, Belgium, Europe

Worker sorting containers at pesticide recycling depot, Mountain View County, Alberta, Canada.

Colorful industrial gate

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. SMUR emergency workers are called for an intervention inside a plastics recycling plant. Second SMUR team called to bring blood to the site for on-site transfusion.

Container, skip for building rubble on a construction site, Germany, Europe

female worker at a scrap metals

Truck Cleaning Street During Ticker Tape Parade, New York City, New York

Tea processing in the Antique Assam Tea Farm, Sun Moon Lake National Scenic Area, Nantou county, Taiwan, Asia

Delivery of coal piled in street outside shops Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe 1959.