Metals recycling center proposed on Concord Street in Pawtucket

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): A metals recycling center is proposed at 55 Concord St., a site once proposed for an expanded city waste transfer station.

The site, which at one time contained a slaughterhouse, is located in an industrial zone between Route 95 and St. Francis Cemetery, on the edge of the Fairlawn neighborhood. It is near the Providence city line and not far from Nathanael Greene Elementary School.

The City Council’s Board of License Commissioners is set to meet tonight, Feb. 11, at 6:45 p.m. at 100 Freight St. to consider a wholesale junk application from owner Edward Jamieson, of Allied Recycling Center Inc., headquartered in Walpole, Mass.

 According to the company’s website, it offers several services, including dumpster deliveries and pickups, junk car hauls, scrap mobile pickup, and on-site ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal recycling services.

The application states that the wholesale junk license would be for the keeper of a shop or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, or secondhand articles, “which is not an automobile junkyard.”

Non-ferrous metals are typically more valuable, including pure metals and alloys, and don’t contain significant amounts of iron, while ferrous metal services include the processing, recycling, and handling of iron-based metals such as cast iron and steel that are magnetic and prone to rust. Those ferrous services are relied on by construction and manufacturing industries.

Though proponents of the transfer station expansion back in 2017 noted the industrial nature of the property and its abutters, opponents of that project highlighted how the residential zone is across the street. It also abuts a retail business zone southward.

The property at 55 Concord St. was previously part of 100 Concord St. before an earlier subdivision of the land. An attorney for Jamieson mentioned in a license application to the board that the property hasn’t been improved for their purposes yet, so information about the size of any structures on the land “is prospective at this time.”

The land has been vacant and used for waste disposal and storage.

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