Aroma – New Nickel Scrap
Barley – No. 1 Copper Wire
Berry – No. 1 Copper Wire
Birch – No. 2 Copper Wire
Burly – Old Nickel Scrap
Candy – No. 1 Heavy Copper
Cliff – No. 2 Copper
Clove – No. 1 Copper Wire Nodules
Cobra – No. 2 Copper Wire Nodules
Cocoa – Copper Wire Nodules
Dandy – New Cupro Nickel Clips and Solids
Daunt – Cupro Nickel Solids
Delta – Soldered Cupro Nickel Solids
Decoy – Cupro Nickel Spinnings, Turnings, Borings
Depth – Miscellaneous Nickel–Copper and Nickel-Copper Iron
Dream – Light Copper
Drink – Refinery Brass
Drove – Copper-Bearing Scrap
Druid – Insulated Copper Wire Scrap
Ebony – Composition or Red Brass
Eland – High Grade-Low Lead Bronze Solids
Elder – Genuine Babbit-Lined Brass Bushings
Elias – High Lead Bronze Solids and Borings
Enerv – Red Brass Composition Turnings
Engel – Machinery or Hard Brass Solids
Erin – Machinery or Hard Brass Borings
Fence – Unlined Standard Red Car Boxes (Clean Journals)
Ferry – Lined Standard Red Car Boxes (Lined Journals)
Grape – Cocks and Faucets
Hitch – New R-Monel Clippings and Solids
Honey – Yellow Brass Scrap
House – New Mixed Monel Solids and Clippings
Ideal – Old Monel Sheet and Solids
Indian – K-Monel Solids
Ivory – Yellow Brass Castings
Junto – Soldered Monel Sheet and Solids
Label – New Brass Clippings
Lace – Brass Shell Cases Without Primers
Lady – Brass Shell Cases With Primers
Lake – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Fired
Lamb – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Muffled (Popped)
Lark – Yellow Brass Primer
Lemon – Monel Casting
Lemur – Monel Turnings
Maize – Mixed New Nickel Silver Clippings
Major – New Nickel Silver Clippings and Solids
Malar – New Segregated Nickel Silver Clippings
Malic – Old Nickel Silver
Melon – Brass Pipe
Naggy – Nickel Silver Castings
Niece – Nickel Silver Turnings
Night – Yellow Brass Rod Turnings
Noble – New Yellow Brass Rod Ends
Nomad – Yellow Brass Turnings
Ocean – Mixed Unsweated Auto Radiators
Pales – Admiralty Brass Condenser Tubes
Pallu – Aluminum Brass Condenser Tubes
Palms – Muntz Metal Tubes
Parch – Manganese Bronze Solids
Pekoe – 200 Series Stainless Steel Scrap Solids
Racks – Scrap Lead – Soft
Radio – Mixed Hard/Soft Scrap Lead
Rails – Lead Battery Plates
Rains – Scrap Drained/Dry Whole Intact Lead Batteries
Rakes – Battery Lugs
Ranch – Block Tin
Ranks – Pewter
Raves – High Tin Base Babbit
Relay – Lead Covered Copper Cable
Rents – Lead Dross
Rink – Scrap Wet Whole Intact Lead Batteries
Rono – Scrap Industrial Intact Lead Cells
Roper – Scrap Whole Intact Industrial Lead Batteries
Ropes – Wheel Weights
Roses – Mixed Common Babbit
Sabot – Stainless Steel Scrap
Saves – Old Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scabs – New Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scoot – Zinc Die Cast Automotive Grilles
Scope – New Plated Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Score – Old Scrap Zinc
Screen – New Zinc Clippings
Scribe – Crushed Clean Sorted Fragmentizers Die Cast Scrap, as Produced from Automobile Fragmentizers
Scroll – Unsorted Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scrub – Hot Dip Galvanizers Slab Zinc Dross (Batch Process)
Scull – Zinc Die Cast Slabs or Pigs
Seal – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Top Dross
Seam – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Bottom Dross
Shelf – Prime Zinc Die Cast Dross
Tablet – Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets
Tabloid – New, Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets
Taboo – Mixed Low Copper Aluminum Clippings and Solids
Taint/Tabor – Clean Mixed Old Alloy Sheet Aluminum
Take – New Aluminum Can Stock
Talap – Old Can Stock
Talcred – Shredded Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldack – Densified Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldon – Baled Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldork – Briquetted Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Tale – Painted Siding
Talent – Coated Scrap
Talk – Aluminum Copper Radiators
Tall – E.C. Aluminum Nodules
Talon – New Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tann – New Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tarry – Aluminum Pistons
Taste – Old Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tassel – Old Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable
Teens – Segregated Aluminum Borings and Turnings
Telic – Mixed Aluminum Borings and Turnings
Tense – Mixed Aluminum Casting
Tepid – Wrecked Airplane Sheet Aluminum
Thigh – Aluminum Grindings
Thirl – Aluminum Drosses, Spatters, Spillings, Skimmings and Sweepings
Throb – Sweated Aluminum
Tooth – Segregated New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids
Tough – Mixed New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids
Tread – Segregated New Aluminum Castings, Forgings and Extrusions
Trump – Aluminum Auto Castings
Twang – Insulated Aluminum Wire Scrap
Twist – Aluminum Airplane Castings
Twitch – Fragmentizer Aluminum (From Automobile Shredders)
Ultra – Stainless Steel Turnings
Vaunt – Edison Batteries
Wafer – Magnesium Clips
Walnut – Magnesium Scrap
Wine – Magnesium Engraver Plates
Wood – Magnesium Dockboards
World – Magnesium Turnings
Zorba – Recyclable Concentrates of Shredded Mixed Nonferrous Scrap Metal in Pieces – Derived from Fragmentizers for further Separation of Contained Materials.
Reprinted in part with permission from: ISRI’s Scrap Specifications Circular 1998, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., 1325 G Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005. Phone: 202-737-1770. Website: www.isri.org. Copies of the complete circular are available to nonmembers for $12.00 each by contacting ISRI. There are commercial implications related to the use of each ISRI specification.
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