Canadian province hopes to reduce the level of scrap metal theft, while protecting the personal information of scrap metal sellers. The province of British Columbia has introduced Bill 13, the Metal ...

• Scrap metal: About $60 per ton is what some local scrap yards pay the public for the steel found in items such as stoves and refrigerators, down from about $250 a ton 90 days ago. A scrap yard may ...

At times last summer, he noticed discarded metal on a street, then returned later to find it gone. Another scrapper beat him to it. Some weeks, he earned more than $300, harvesting dead furnaces, ...