Shotgun Cartridge Recycling? I work for a clay pigeon shooting business. We are trying to do our bit for the environment (bearing in mind that 80% of conservation is carried out by shooters), to recycle spent cartridges. Our local recycling firm says that no-one is indterested because of explosion (which can%26#039;t happen if a cartridge is outside of a barrel!). It is basically brass and plastic - can anyone help?

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9 months ago

I would love to do it myself - but we have maybe 5000 clays in a day - so more cartridges! It would be labour instensive.

These things are pretty well inoffensive - surely there must be someone out there who would be prepared to recycle the plastic and the brass!

If not, I will consider doing it ourselves! - But that is usually for something like a .410. One of our insturctors does that for himself - but that is just because .410 cartridges are so expensive!

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Can they be reloaded and resold? If so, there may be local shops that are interested in them.

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The problem is not one of requirement for material but one of health and safety because of potentially explosive material. We could encourage people to take away spent cartridges and reload them for themselves if we sold the necessary material - thanks, made me think about it another way!

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• refilling and reloading ain%26#039;t really worth the time and money cuz you can buy shotgun shells 1000 for like 10 bucks at wal-mart .410s shouldn%26#039;t be that expensive(mind you the last time I used a .410 i wasn%26#039;t the one buying the shells)
  
  how about you make jewlery out of them
• Busy business. Would it be feasible to separate the plastic from the brass and sell the brass? Cleaning the plastic might require more energy than would be saved by recycling.
• why dont you do it ? i used to refill them years ago for our local sports shop / clay shoot
• Seperate the plastic from the brass. Discard the plastic, sell the brass.