Scrap metal dealers turn trash into treasure by recycling metal in old cars, appliances, wiring and other junk. By paying people for their junk metal, scrap metal businesses help clean up the ...

Recycling metal is essential because it reduces the amount of scrap bound for landfills and reduces the need to mine ores, but it’s not necessarily the reason scrap processors started their businesses ...

Today’s scrap metal recycling facilities face multiple headwinds along the road to profitability. Market closures because of tightening purity standards plus underdeveloped domestic recycling ...

European Union (EU) lawmakers this month announced plans to reduce waste and increase recycling across the bloc, with proposals to collect and process 45% of 16 identified “strategic” raw materials by ...

Whether you want to start a scrap metal business of your own or your small business needs an easy way to add some cash to its coffers, collecting and selling scrap silver could be part of your ...

Grand Forks scrap yard embraces new scrap metal law Scales sit in the loading dock area of Residual Materials Inc., a scrap metal recycling company located off of Mill Road in Grand Forks. Scrap ...