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Washington state’s overall recycling rate reached a record 49 percent in 2010, outperforming the national average of 34 percent of disposable items diverted from landfills, even as aluminum can and nonferrous metals recycling bucked the trend, posting recovery rates lower than in the previous year.
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Recyclers in downstate Illinois face additional regulations in 2012 in a county effort to combat metal thefts.
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The potential to create jobs and stop toxic electronic waste from being exported has spurred the world’s largest recycler to support proposed federal legislation.
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Police in New Mexico have charged a Wise Recycling LLC employee with receiving stolen property.
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Metal Bulletin’s Daily Ferrous Scrap Index cfr Iskenderun rose to $464.22 per tonne on an HMS 1&2 (80:20) basis on Friday December 30, up from $463.30 on December 29.
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Boliden has gained a credit facility worth up to €85 million ($110 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the expansion of its electronic scrap recycling facility.
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Bullish merchants increased their offer prices for shredded ferrous scrap to India this week, in line with recent trade to Turkey, traders told Metal Bulletin.
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Flat-rolled steel prices appear poised to hit the ground running in 2012 as the expectation of higher January scrap tags and a temporary blast furnace curtailment by RG Steel LLC provide the domestic market some welcome support.
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Icahn Enterprises Holdings LP has advised Commercial Metals Co. (CMC) shareholders that it has adopted an all-or-nothing approach in its quest to acquire the company at $15 per share.
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Recyclers in Jacksonville, Fla., have mixed feelings about the prospect of increased reporting requirements and a ban on paying cash in certain transactions if an ordinance drafted by the local sheriff’s office is passed.
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Letters have been sent to 115 parties who may be liable for shouldering some of the cost of cleaning up former secondary copper smelter Chemetco Inc.
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Two people affiliated with recycling operations and an unlicensed scrap dealer in California were arrested after police were tipped off that large quantities of stolen metal allegedly were being “fenced.”
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Metal Bulletin’s Daily Ferrous Scrap Index cfr Iskenderun rose to $463.30 per tonne on an HMS 1&2 (80:20) basis on Thursday December 29, up from $458.05 on December 28
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As 2011 comes to a close and prices for ferrous scrap into Turkey look like surging higher into the New Year, the market has observed fairly stable levels throughout the past 12 months.
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A national construction company is suing an ArcelorMittal USA Inc. subsidiary, alleging the producer through its own negligence sank a barge of scrap metal that it had purchased and now refuses to pay for the material.
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The owner of Florida auto crusher Twisted Metal Recycling & Auto was arrested Dec. 21 for allegedly crushing a vehicle that was reported stolen.
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European secondary aluminium prices remained stable on Friday with much of the market having ceased activities for the year, while sporadic sales for first-quarter delivery were made within last week’s ranges.
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Upstate Shredding LLC-Ben Weitsman & Son Inc. has cleared a major rezoning hurdle in Liberty, N.Y., that paves the way for it to proceed with plans to relocate the former Liberty Scrap Metal Inc., which it bought last year.
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The copper scrap market is grinding to a halt in the final days of 2011, leaving many hopeful that 2012 will bring a marked pickup in business, market participants told AMM.
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Scrap metal sellers in Emporia, Kan., will have to register with the local police department now that the city commission passed a new ordinance to reflect statewide legislation.
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Recyclers in Arizona will be subject to stricter rules in the new year, although industrial accounts are exempt from the new statutes.
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Prices for ferrous scrap imported into Spain increased this week on the back of international competition for scrap from Asia and Turkey, market participants told Metal Bulletin.
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Metal Bulletin’s Daily Ferrous Scrap Index cfr Iskenderun fell to $458.05 per tonne on an HMS 1&2 (80:20) basis on Thursday December 22, down from $459.14.
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U.S. steel imports continued to fall in October as exports remained mostly steady, although there were signs of volatility at some ports, according to U.S. Census Bureau USA Trade Online data.