What We Recycle

Used steel shot abrasives have value for your organization. As a by-product from shot peening and blasting operations, used/spent steel shot can be one of the most valuable items a manufacturer can recycle. Wisdom works with manufacturers to identify collection points and develop methods to capture these materials that maximize their value.

Shot blasting and peening machines use a combination of air and screens to clean the shot during operation. As the shot is used, the size of the original shot is reduced due to wear, resulting in smaller less efficient sizes.

Many manufacturers feed the smaller-sized steel shot material back into their machines in an effort to save money. However, by doing so, the smaller shot is further abraded and results in Steel Shot Dust. These actions make the machines less efficient and create greater amounts of shot dust by-products that require landfilling and increased costs.

The Shot Dust created from these operations is sometime difficult to recycle if only iron based products are being blasted. Wisdom specializes in recycling iron based shot dusts from these processes..If your operation uses steel shot to blast products that contain Ni Alloys…the resulting dust may have value in addition to the spent steel shot. Our goal is to help you recycle your Spent Steel Shot and Spent Steel Dust saving your company money and eliminating these costly waste streams.