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February 2015 Why they Give

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February 2015 BCBusiness 61 A 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.

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