“There is not a lot of scrap out there,” says Michael Diehl, a Los Angeles-based senior vice president at New York-based Coremet Trading Inc. Therefore, recyclers and traders of nonferrous scrap have ...

Copper prices have climbed high enough that bare wire and pipe are starting to look like fast cash, and thieves are following ...

OK, cards on the table: I am by no means an expert on recycling scrap metal. I’ve only done it a couple of times and it didn’t exactly make me rich. But this article isn’t really about the few bucks ...