The Jensen Refining department has created a series of 4 articles designed to help you obtain optimal results with your scrap returns.

what you will learn from this article:

How the Different Types of Scrap Affect Your Return

• What are the predominant dental scrap material types?
• What are the materials’ scrap recovery attributes?
• What obligations reside with the lab for any hazardous
  material content?

Bottom Line:

Having a better appreciation of the differences between the metallic and non-metallic characteristics of lab scrap, along with those materials that are potentially hazardous, will enhance your relationship with your refining partner and allow you to better assess its performance over time. However, by also abandoning any tendency to comingle scrap without forethought and adopting a well-disciplined scrap segregation practice in its place, the lab can vastly increases its prospects for estimating the range of recovery, and in doing so, can permanently replace uncertainty with increasingly predictable outcomes.