Several scrap processing and consuming companies have been honored by business information company Platts as part of its Global Metals Awards program. Award winners were announced at a banquet hosted ...

AMM presented Upstate Shredding this top industry award during the annual AMM awards dinner at The Edison Ballroom in New York City in June. The award for Scrap Company of the Year represents the ...

Adam Weitsman, 45, has built an empire out of metal. The largest privately owned scrap metal processing and recycling operation on the East Coast, Upstate Shredding has its headquarters in Owego, ...

OWEGO, N.Y. — Over the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice have been investigating pollution at metal recycling facilities across the country.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is cracking down on General Iron Industries, a North Side scrap metal shredding company that’s been under scrutiny for years. Reset digs into the latest on this story. As ...

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has completed the relaunch of an emergency rulemaking to refine the process by which metal shredding facilities determine when hazardous ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – A metal recycling company in Pilsen that had been ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to monitor their levels of pollutants is now getting a stamp of approval. In a new ...

Much of Chicago is shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a North Side company with a long history of pollution problems is still shredding flattened cars, twisted rebar and used appliances every ...