Keep little pieces of scrap metal, such as nails and screws, organized until your next recycling trip with this handy tip. As a longtime recycler, I’m accustomed to saving food cans, bottles, paper ...

Q: We have been cleaning out the garage and have uncovered at least two coffee cans full of nails, screws, bolts, etc. How do I recycle or throw them away? — E.C., East Greenwich A: To determine ...

The world of recycling and salvage depends on scrap metal businesses to locate, gather and deliver various metals for further use and consumption. By operating a scrap metal business, a business owner ...

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 ...

The newly operational Hutch Metal Recycling sits in a large remodeled facility, where the smell of grease and metal shavings greets customers selling large or small amounts of recyclable scrap metal.

Did you know that in 2017, the US generated a whopping 267.8 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW)? Granted, that’s far less than what China and India generate. However, it’s still a lot, seeing ...