As copper wire theft continues to surge across Los Angeles County, detectives say shutting down the black market is critical.

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 ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials say copper wire theft suspect Brian Welch made more than 300 scrap metal transactions. And say copper wire theft suspect ...

JV established by German companies demonstrates value of harvesting nonferrous metals from wire and cable scrap. A not yet finalized JV between Aurubis and TSR Recycling would allow the two firms to ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville recycling centers are looking out for stripped copper wire, stolen from interstate lights, a problem that's left drivers in the dark and cost taxpayers millions of ...

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.

United Kingdom-based Sackers Scrap Metal & Waste Recycling has invested some 350,000 British pounds sterling ($432,000) to increase its wire and cable recycling capacity. The company calls its new ...

A man was arrested after a large recycling load started to raise suspicions. On Oct. 21, the Kings County Sheriff’s ...

Electric cables in decommissioned nuclear power plants which were previously incinerated can now have their copper recovered using a new technique successfully trialled by Veolia. Recycling copper ...