Recycle drinks cans and food tins – for most aluminium, tin, or steel cans and tins ensure they're clean and dry then you can normally recycle them in your household recycling bin. If you've got high volumes or large pieces of scrap metal take them to your local household waste recycling centre (HWRC).

Metal waste or scrap metal is any product that's broken or no longer useable, which is made completely or mostly from a metal material. For example, it could be broken tools, metal sheets from manufacturing, a bent pipe, old electrical appliances, and more.

Bring the Metal to Scrap Yards You can bring scrap metal to local scrap yards for cash payments to avoid clogging up landfills. The metal that can be recycled and re-purposed can be reused in a variety of different industries. For example, scrap metal and aluminum metals are used in construction for bridges and roads.