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City News Auto Draft Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorized City NewsNewsletter read more Product Stewardship – Completing The Circle of Responsibility Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized One of the things that have become extremely important whenever we talk about the current state of the world is the need for companies to start taking more responsibility for their actions regarding the environment. This area is by far the most critical when it comes... read more Congratulations to the winners of our Customer Appreciation Raffle Oct 14, 2022 | Company News This past September we held our customer app ..read more

One of the things that have become extremely important whenever we talk about the current state of the world is the need for companies to start taking more responsibility for their actions regarding the environment. This area is by far the most critical when it comes to developing efficiencies and practices that will contribute to shrinking carbon footprints to help reduce toxic emissions that are approaching critical mass in the atmosphere. As a result, phrases like Product Stewardship, Extended Producer Responsibility and Original Equipment Manufacturer are becoming more and more a part of o ..read more

This past September we held our customer appreciation raffle, where customers who brought in scrap metal to any of our locations had the chance to enter to win a barbecue, a Samsung television, or a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Prizes were offered in each location. Congratulations to the winners ..read more

A Reflection On The Past, Present & Future The Past Where has all the time gone? I find myself asking that question more and more these days. As of this summer, Peel Scrap going into its 33rd year in the scrap metal recycling business. The Past 1990 was when we had our humble beginning. The partner Jeff Shaffer and I were actually brothers-in-law, so Peel was definitely a family business. In addition to that Jeff and I were actually the only employees. We had no customers on our opening day, occupying half of the building on 2301 Anson Drive in Mississauga. We had a one-ton truck and one ..read more

Our Family Is Growing As our area recovers from the Covid effect on businesses, we’re finding that demand for our services is growing. And that’s a good thing for both our area businesses and the economy in general. Being a truly customer-centric company, we have added people and hardware accordingly. Most recently the two beauties pictured above. On the left is a roll-off truck, which is designed to drop off and pick up bins from our customers. This is called the Western Star Tri-Axle and it’s and is designed to transport bin loads of various sizes up to 40,000 pounds Family Is Growing The t ..read more

The Future Of Metal Recycling – A Global Perspective One of the things we enjoy most is chatting with our customers. These conversations are always interesting and help us to get a handle on what our customers think about our service, which helps us do a better job. These conversations are also the key to helping provide them with useful information and sometimes to suggest useful associations with other customers. Metal prices are often a part of these conversations as customers want to understand the rationale for swings in prices. Many often wonder if they are doing the right thing by sell ..read more

If you really did not know this, there is no need to be embarrassed. The answer is not a word that we would commonly put in the same sentence as “resource.” Resources have a special place in our environmental word speak. They are aligned with mother earth, sustainability, ecosystems, and a host of other soothing words we use to describe the types of positive synergies and inter-relationships between our environment and ourselves that we are grasping to achieve before we manage to set the planet on its final path to a total flame-out. On the other hand, the word that answers this question is r ..read more

The word ‘Recycling’ came into use in the 1960s as the world’s population exploded along with the mass production of consumable goods. As goods got cheaper and cheaper, labor became more expensive, and affluence in society grew, we gradually became a throw-away society, If it was too expensive or inconvenient to repair a product it was just cheaper overall and cheaper to buy another. Manufacturers even started building products under a scheme of ‘planned obsolescence’, which further exacerbated the waste problem. As a result we saw more and more material going to landfills and, at the same tim ..read more

One of the largest producers of steel in the world is the country of Japan. And it’s three largest steelmakers, Kobe Steel, JFE & Nippon Steel have all signed onto a pledge to make their processes Carbon Neutral by the year 2050. This initiative is being supported wholeheartedly by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, which means that these steel makers will be held to their pledges. Achieving these ambitious carbon reduction goals is going to require a good deal of investment in the development of new higher efficiency technologies, but more importantly, it will require a move away from t ..read more