Detectives found about 6,000 pounds of large gauge, commercial copper wire Wednesday at a Bakersfield residence being used as an illegal recycling center, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office ...

IT’S VERY VALUABLE. COPPER WIRE. IT’S VERY VALUABLE. RIGHT NOW, AT THE SCRAP MARKET AND IF THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS MUCH, THEN. THEN THEY’RE GETTING QUITE A BIT OF MONEY FOR RESELLING IT AND ...

The government of the People’s Republic of China may consider imported wire and cable scrap as unwanted “foreign garbage,” but recyclers and metals producers around the world continue to process ...

Los Angeles police searching a recycling center in the San Fernando Valley have recovered about $46,000 worth of metals stolen from city infrastructure, such as street lights, officials said.

Kern County Sheriff’s Office detectives locate 2,300 pounds of nonferrous metals in Bakersfield, California; uncover illegal recycling operation. The Kern County Sheriff's Office in California has ...

MONTREAL — In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot ...