By 1992 he had a job selling scrap metal from the U.S. to manufacturers in China.
Anil Agarwal took advantage of a changing India and made a fortune from scrap metal.
They even tore the tin roof off the house to sell as scrap metal.
It is not worth risking lives for the sake of few pounds of scrap metal value.
For some, it's a dream job: banging on cans and making music with scrap metal.
The scrap metal recycling industry welcomes participation in the recycling process from the community.
Prices were rising already, with scrap metal nearly quadrupling between 1972 and 1974 and lumber nearly doubling.
In an outdoor metal shop, Wadongo and volunteers hammer scrap metal for the frame of the lantern.
Sister ship HMS Invincible was also sold for scrap last year to a Turkish scrap metal firm.
The percussionists play on traditional conga drums and instruments made out of scrap metal and car parts.
Australian-based Sims Metal Management (SMS, 16) is the world's largest publically traded scrap metal recycler and electronics recycler.
Baussan was just 23 years old when he was sold the old-fashioned distiller as a piece of scrap metal.
And his party colleague, Nadine Dorries, suggested it was time to change the law governing the scrap metal industry.
The derailed rail cars were loaded with scrap metal, automobiles and auto parts.
And we produce lots of garbage, including wastepaper, discarded bottles, and scrap metal.
On a whim, she decided to try her hand at scrap metal recycling.
West Midlands Police said tighter controls for scrap metal traders had also contributed to the reduction in the area.
"Scrap metal dealers know they couldn't have come by them honestly, " he says.
It comes ahead of a bill, tabled by Richard Ottaway MP, which would see licensing for scrap metal dealers.
Now it supplies the families with drinking water and sells them contaminated scrap metal and bricks from the factory.
Precious metals refining, scrap metal, recycling: they all share this same economic point.
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Expensive maintenance may force the owners to sell the historic ship for scrap metal, unless a solution can be found.
"Staff were shocked to find something potentially dangerous within a skip of scrap metal, " said a spokesman for Newport Council.
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The court heard on 21 June the gang raided the Algmet business, stealing scrap metal and vehicles and vandalising the offices.
Abrupt increases in the prices of coke and scrap metal have pounded minimills like Nucor, offsetting their advantages in labor costs.
Lee emigrated from Seoul to the U.S. in 1986, working in Atlanta as a business consultant and scrap metal exporter.
The truth is that the DoD is suggesting that they sell non-nuclear and non-radioactive scrap metal into the scrap metal chain.
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The Scrap Metal Dealers Bill aims to reform the industry and tackle what Mr Ottaway calls "outdated legislation" from 1964.
Mike Heaton, Oldbury site director, said the income from recycling the scrap metal will help pay for the UK nuclear decommissioning programme.
They also want annual licensing of scrap metal dealers similar to pubs.
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