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 ...

• Scrap metal: About $60 per ton is what some local scrap yards pay the public for the steel found in items such as stoves and refrigerators, down from about $250 a ton 90 days ago. A scrap yard may ...

Inflationary worries are here to stay. First it was a fuel price hike because of excise levies and now the metal sector is passing on the burden of a hike in excise duty to customers.

The rag and bone man is back, thanks to the soaring price of scrap metal. Once a familiar sight, these junk collectors with their horses and carts immortalised in the TV series Steptoe And Son had all ...