February 2015 BCBusiness 61
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ABC Recycling's fl agship metal scrapyard,
built over a reclaimed Burnaby swamp near the Fraser River's
north arm, is like a graveyard and mine built into one: where metal
goes at the end of its life, then takes the fi rst steps toward being
reborn as a valued raw material.
Started in 1912,
ABC is the oldest and largest privately held metal
recycling company in B.C.—one of four big companies that today
source ferrous (iron-containing metals) and non-ferrous (including
copper, aluminum and lead) metal from wide networks of indus-
try, government, smaller feeder yards and scrap collectors. This
40,000-square-metre Burnaby yard is the terminus for all the metal
sourced from
ABC's eight other facilities, which stretch from Van-
couver Island to Grande Prairie, Alberta.
