Old cars. Brake rotors. Rebar. Industrial scrap.
Inside the U.S. Pipe foundry in Alabama, all of it can become drinking water infrastructure.
Jeff Mason, explains how different grades of recycled metal are blended together before being melted down and transformed into ductile iron pipe. Giant magnets load shredded cars, engine components, and scrap steel into massive charges headed for the cupola, where temperatures climb to 2,800°F.
The scale of the recycling operation is enormous. Tons of metal that might otherwise become waste are continuously repurposed into pipe engineered to last underground for decades while carrying drinking water to communities across the United States.
It’s a reminder that some of the country’s most important sustainability and infrastructure stories are happening inside places most people never see.
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