Metal scrap recycling is a $30 billion a year business in the U.S., according to industry statistics. Scrap metals can generally be divided into categories --ferrous and nonferrous.

Joe Balzano, the president of Eastern Metal, the company which owns the pile, says that while others might hate it, it’s a necessary evil, as it provides 50 union jobs.

Latest Headlines Fire engulfs pile at Chico Scrap Metal Water is sprayed onto a fire at Chico Scrap Metal near Durham, California on Monday, July 15, 2024. (Jake Hutchison/Enterprise-Record) ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Parker Fire Department said it is responding to a large pile of scrap metal fire on Old Easley Highway at Adam’s Scrap Recycling.

A pile of scrap metal caught fire at an industrial site in Monroe, Michigan, sending black and gray smoke billowing into the air Wednesday morning. The Monroe Public Safety Department reported it ...

Local News Fire At Scrap Metal Pile Outside Pueblo Is Out April 20, 2015 / 10:13 AM MDT / CBS Colorado PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A fire in a huge scrap metal pile just outside Pueblo is out.

Large, orange flames and black, billowing smoke could be seen from miles away last night after a multi-story pile of scrap metal caught fire at a Jersey City recycling plant just before 11 p.m ...

Engine crews, dispatched at 6:03 p.m. to Omnisource, 425 W. 152nd St., found a large, burning pile of scrap metal, old cars and automotive parts.

March 21 — To the Editor: The scrap metal piles operated by Grimmel Industries on the banks of the Piscataqua River in downtown Portsmouth continue to pollute the river.

Firefighters spent much of Thursday working to extinguish a fire that consumed a large scrap metal pile at CMC Steel Texas near Seguin. The pile was approximately 30 feet high and an acre wide ...