The always cyclical prices of scrap metals have spiraled down for more than a year to their 23-year nadir for a variety of global economic reasons. The lower prices have led some salvage yards and ...

MARIETTA – As the U.S. dollar has gained strength in 2015, scrap metal value has dropped drastically from last year’s export prices. Wares like plate and structural scrap were sold at almost three ...

Your local scrapyard might be an interesting place to visit these days. The Wall Street Journal reported that scrap iron and steel prices have gone up 70 percent in just a year. When the recession hit ...

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Erica spends four hours daily walking miles of Milwaukee streets and alleys, digging through garbage and stuffing her red plastic grocery cart with aluminum cans and other small ...

Steel prices, which had been on an upward trajectory since the COVID-19 pandemic, started softening late in the third quarter of 2021 as steel supply increased and lead times shortened. Ferrous scrap ...

Owners of unwanted cars often decide to sell the parts of their car for scrap metal. There comes the point where some cars aren’t operable anymore, or their remaining vehicle life is short. In other ...

Scrap metal has strategic value to European policy-makers because it sits at the heart of the bloc's industrial policy.

"Less is more" is a term usually associated with architecture but it where it might just as easily be applied is to iron ore where Chinese buying habits have resulted in a higher price for the ...