A collapsed bunker wall brought a large flow of scrap metal and concrete blocks onto workers at a Birmingham, United Kingdom, scrap yard in early July, causing five fatalities. An online report by the ...

A new way to recycle the metal from scrap cars could eliminate millions of tonnes of waste each year and cut the carbon emissions from producing virgin aluminium. For decades, much of the scrap ...

Despite what the name would suggest, “scrap” metal isn’t simply useless waste. Thanks to modern technology, scrap metal can be recycled and repurposed into new products, reducing the environmental and ...

Old plastic from scrapped cars can be converted into graphene by grinding it to dust and zapping it with high-voltage electricity, a process that could save large amounts of plastic from landfill.