Recycling Industries Incorporated

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's not often that you see a legislative committee fairly falling all over itself to offer a hand to a state agency beset by budget cuts. But yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee wrapped the state......

Eight school buses were stolen from the Far South Side overnight and driven to a salvage yard, where they were cut apart and shredded into a two-story pile of scrap, police said. The name of the Sunrise Transportation bus company could be seen among...

Connecticut has a whole lot of history, and a surprising amount of it is being ripped off and melted down for quick cash by thieves and unscrupulous scrap dealers. The plague of thefts of metal plaques, statues, and fittings from historical monuments,...

Throughout the day, shirtless, tattooed men push shopping carts filled with metal scrap to a junkyard in Curtis Bay. Inside the gate, a pair of German shepherds and 16 surveillance cameras keep watch as the men unload their treasure and leave with cash....

The explosions came one after another, jolting a South Los Angeles neighborhood. "It felt like an earthquake, and then it was just raining fire," recalled Richard Gomez, who watched a metal recycling facility on Slauson Avenue erupt in flames one day...

For hundreds jobless in Sacramento, dumpster diving is their livelihood. Cans, bottles and cardboard isn’t trash; it’s a paycheck. “I see CRV Tax, I see a penny on the ground, I see 3 cents on the ground, I see money,” said...

When S.S. asked recently about disposing of a hard drive so that its data couldn't be retrieved, I didn't imagine the number of emails I'd get. I suggested seeking out an e-Steward, a recycler certified by the Basel Action Network as a greener recycler...

Bales of paper and cardboard at a South Sacramento recycling plant went up in flames, sending huge columns of smoke into the air Saturday afternoon. "Some flames were shooting up. At one point, there was so much fire at the base of the fence area, that...