Recyclers who process wire and cable scrap have longstanding expectations and formulas regarding how much effort and cost can be expended to extract metal from the many different types of wire scrap ...

PHILADELPHIA & DALLAS—Comcast Cable has announced a partnership with Echo Environmental Holdings, LLC, to utilize a new recycling solution for its customers’ end-of-life coaxial cables. The effort ...

For more than two decades, scrap processors in North America and Europe became accustomed to making regular shipments of baled wire and cable scrap to China. The nation’s buyers offered desirable ...

PHOENIX - It takes a lot to bring electricity into people's home everyday, and that can mean a lot of waste at the landfill. Now, university researchers are working with Salt River Project (SRP) to ...

MONTREALMONTREAL — 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 ...

Italian and Japanese researchers have developed a novel method to free copper wire from its PVC coating, by treating electric cables with microwaves. The technique could go a long way towards helping ...

That box of cords sitting in the garage might be worth a few bucks.

At the forefront of this transformation is the electronics and metal recycling sector, where advanced machinery is key to ...