This week, the copper scrap market retreated after a rapid rise as copper prices hit a record high, with overall trading ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

A lawsuit has been filed against the state, saying that a new law intended to prevent costly copper wire thefts will unintentionally shut down the state’s scrap metal industry if it goes into effect ...

Europe needs to help its copper smelters by stemming “huge” flows of scrap metal to China, Germany’s Economy Minister Katherina Reiche said, potentially opening up a new front in trade tensions. “The ...