And, at the end of their lives, they have a much higher scrap value.

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At best, their content comes from trees and cotton plants, with a scrap value that is probably negative.

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The company claims to have 75 million miles of copper cable which people are always trying to steal for the copper scrap value.

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Despite fireworks in the art market, art contains no intrinsic value, just canvas on a stretcher or at best bronze or corten steel sculpture with some scrap value.

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It is not worth risking lives for the sake of few pounds of scrap metal value.

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Garden ornaments had also been taken for their scrap metal value.

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Now obviously, a copper scrap refiner does not pay the full value of the copper contained within scrap.

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This leaves them with little more than their value as scrap, local real-estate experts say.

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That way, if an employee leaves or a device is sent to the scrap heap, the app can be erased, and the license value applied to another app on another device.

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Neu was enormously successful in hugely growing the value of the privately held family concern, Hugo Neu, from a simple scrap metal trading business into one of the largest automobile crushing operations in the U.S. He then profited from taking all that crushed metal and made it available for the needs of emerging nations for raw materials for their economies.

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