Our recycling partners, Alter Metal Recycling and Sadoff Iron and Metal Recycling Company, accept a wide variety of metal items for recycling and track donations throughout the school year.

When members of the community recycled scrap metal at either of these locations, they could then donate all or part of the proceeds to the LPS Recycling Program. All told, the Lincoln community donated the recycling revenue from over 5,400 pounds of metal this school year!

These funds are used to replace aging or damaged recycling containers. These steel containers will themselves be recycled as scrap metal and replaced by containers also made from recycled steel. 

This continuous cycle from scrap into new, useful steel products is known as a closed loop. In a closed loop, both waste and resource depletion are kept to a minimum!