About the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta Market Research Report
Definition of the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta?
The Recyclable Material Wholesaling industry in Canada wholesales automotive scrap, industrial scrap and other recyclable materials. Recyclable material wholesalers include auto wreckers that dismantle motor vehicles for wholesale scrap material. Also included are wholesalers that break up, sort and wholesale all forms of scrap iron and steel using power-processing equipment such as cranes, hydraulic shears, baling equipment and cable strippers.
What’s included in the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta?
The Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta includes waste bottle wholesaling, waste box wholesaling, general line scrap wholesaling, glass scrap wholesaling, metal scrap wholesaling, oil scrap wholesaling, paper scrap wholesaling, plastic scrap wholesaling and textile waste wholesaling. Related terms covered in the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta industry report includes metal that contains iron, metal that does not contain iron, recyclable used materials such as parts of vehicles, building supplies and surplus materials. often confused with waste, scrap in fact has monetary value, the process of extracting and isolating material, usually types of metal, by heating and melting, recycled, broken or wasted glass that is melted and transformed to new glass products and steelmaking furnaces that use electric arc technology to smelt and mould metal.
Industry Performance of the Recyclable Material Wholesaling industry in Alberta
Benchmark the Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta industry performance with all AB Census Metropolitan Area and national performance.
Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta
#4 in Highest Revenue 11.1% of province's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Canada
Revenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
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Key Drivers of the Recyclable Material Wholesaling industry in Alberta
See how key industry drivers, such as gross domestic product, per capita disposable income, total jobs, demand from manufacturing, gdp of canada and world price of steel are impacting Recyclable Material Wholesaling in Alberta
Alberta Economic Indicators
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Per Capita Disposable Income
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Canada Key External Drivers
Demand from manufacturing
GDP of Canada
World price of steel
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Census Metropolitan Area Data of the Recyclable Material Wholesaling industry in Alberta
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Key Statistics of the Recyclable Material Wholesaling industry in Alberta
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