With multiple machines operating at the same time and piles of materials to manage, scrap yards can be challenging to navigate, operate and maintain. With all the facets of these facilities, ...

Salvage yards provide a valuable service to consumers and businesses that want to get rid of junk and scrap metal. Some salvage yard businesses require an infusion of cash to buy equipment and pay ...

Salvage yard, junk yard, scrap yard, recycling center—what you call it likely has some bearing on how you view these places filled with society’s unwanted detritus. But to me, “That which we call a ...

Drive north out of the small central Pennsylvania town of Muncy, alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River, up into the crinkled hills, and you’ll find it: the farm that grows machines. They sprout ...

Scrap processors could encounter radioactive scrap metal from a number of sources, including decommissioned nuclear power plants, the oil and gas industry and end-of-life medical equipment.