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In It for the Long Haul

It's just like alchemy. With enough hard work, a person can turn dross - or in this case, scrap metal -into gold.

With an American consumer economy gone shaky and a global marketplace hungry for commodities, Vermont's recycling industry, like the rest of the country's, is booming. Paper and plastics are in heavy worldwide demand, but metals are going through the roof.

Scrap metal can include a host of things, like whole cars, radiators, copper wire, copper plumbing, appliances, aluminum, tin, steel beams, roofing, rebar, aluminum siding, beer kegs and propane tanks.

The upside to the world's lust for scrap metal? Aluminum cans no longer dot the roadside, and rusted-out cars are no longer ...

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