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Think this is junk? Think again. Its value lures some to steal it.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Think this is junk? Think again. Its value lures some to steal it.(Crime)(Police, recyclers and businesses say the price paid for scrap metal is enticing thieves)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

The thieves are nothing if not brazen. They've climbed utility poles to take the copper telegraph wire that railroads use to send track-switching signals. They've stripped the aluminum guard rails from bridges on back roads, jumped scrap yard fences to steal truck wheel rims, slipped onto construction sites to rip the electrical wiring out of new houses.

"These are people who know the value of scrap metal and are willing to make the effort," Eugene police Detective Bob Holland said.

Holland investigates such crimes in Eugene, and as metal prices have shot skyward in the past couple of years, more thieves have gone after it. Copper and aluminum are their favorite targets.

The scrap metal market in the United States is significant. According to the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries, recyclers handled more than 130 million tons of recyclables destined for domestic use and overseas markets last year. That includes 4.1 million tons of scrap aluminum and 1.5 million tons of scrap copper.

The scrap prices follow the price trends of metal sold on the world's commodities...

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