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Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
"We are going to have to keep track of the 92 regenerative chemical elements but not just as elements because we have them in literally thousands of millions of compounds and different complex structures as they are used in various industrial processes. We won’t be using the elements by themselves; we’ll be using the various compounds. I am interested in the concentrates. And I see buildings as high and low grade. I see my 92 chemical elements rarely in the pure condition; in a more complex way they are in practical dissociability for further realignment.
“When we talk about all the aluminum or the bauxite some is below grade in the mines and some is already in use and recirculating. There are really two classes. There is a recirculating group. When they’re pulling a building down there’s part of the steel that’s no longer in the building holding it together, but it may not have been put on the market yet as scrap. But it’s what they call high melting scrap and should go right into the furnace; it will command a much bigger price than the small stuff.”
- Tape transcript #4, pp.8-9, RBF to W. Wolf; Phila. PA., 15 Jun’74
