The US has allies??

A lot of metals are fairly easy to recycle. For others, being alloys (basically a mix of various metals in varying quantities), it’s more tricky as you can’t always really get a pure product out of recycling very easily, so it limits the types of things you can do with them. But all in all it’s way better than with plastics.

I googled BJ.

It was nice, but uninformative.

May I suggest a thin mint wafer?

My only currently active machine is a laptop named buttwarmer as per my cat’s suggestion.