Are you still tossing out machines rather than repairing them? Can you be forgiven for hanging onto the outdated notion that nonfunctioning machines and household appliances must be tossed and replaced?

The concept of throwaway culture belongs in the waste bin of histor...

The copper market should have known 2017 would be an interesting and potentially beneficial year after seeing US President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech promising to rebuild the United States and a 44-day strike at Escondida mine in Chile.

And even with some price...

China’s recycling challenge

U.S. consumers, firms, agencies will need to step up

DEC 29, 2017

Today’s Opinion stories

Lane County residents have enthusiastically embraced recycling, making it the only county in Oregon to send more waste to be recycled than to the dump last...

The price for the red metal has risen 2 per cent to its highest level since September 2015 on hopes president elect Trump will boost spending on infrastructure and construction in the u.s. 

“We will rebuild our infrastructure, which will become second to none,...

 As summer ends and fall looms on the calendar, September is looking to bring yet another decrease for steel markets across the country. Scrap flow remains strong at the local yards, but low oil

prices and global market chaos have slowed production at steel mi...