At times last summer, he noticed discarded metal on a street, then returned later to find it gone. Another scrapper beat him to it. Some weeks, he earned more than $300, harvesting dead furnaces, ...

MILWAUKEE - At a scrap yard on Milwaukee's south side, a young man known as a "metal peddler" unloaded a faded green Oldsmobile filled with so much junk that its rusted bumper nearly dragged on the ...

On Aug. 7, 1997, the owners of two Northeast Ohio companies involved in the gritty but lucrative scrap metal business met for breakfast at a Holiday Inn in Mayfield Heights. On one side of the booth ...

A seemingly insatiable appetite for copper and aluminum scrap among buyers from China have kept prices strong and spreads with primary metal exceptionally tight, and industry players said they see the ...

Ron Hamilton watched as two massive materials sorters — machines with large mechanical arms tipped with magnets — dipped into a towering pile of metal debris at the Port of Albany to separate steel ...

When Zahir Ghambarie was forced to flee his village, torn apart by the bloody internal conflict in Afghanistan, the thought of collecting rubbish in a land 9,500 kilometres away would have seemed ...

Louisville, Kentucky-based GBC Metals LLC, which operates facilities under the Olin Brass name, has announced price increases on nearly 30 of its copper and brass alloy products, ranging from alloy ...