S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co., a recycling company located in Watts that has garnered controversy due to claims of pollution affecting an adjacent school and neighborhood, has been ordered to stop ...

All metals, not just gold, are commodities. Prices for different types of recycled metals increase or decrease on a daily basis, but over the long run metal prices consistently (if gradually) increase ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Scrap Management Industries, Inc. (SMI), one of the Midwest's leading ferrous and nonferrous metal recycling companies, today announced it has acquired ...

A crane lifts scrap metal at Atlas Iron & Metal Co., in Watts, in June 2020. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a scrap metal recycler in Watts ...

Mike Ronnel, a co-owner of Little Rock's Metal Recycling Corp., will receive the Recycled Materials Association regional organization's lifetime achievement award later this month, having grown his ...

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