Auto shredders are very powerful machines, yet encountering just one unshreddable item can cause serious safety issues. Unshreddables include things such as big heavy castings, gasoline tanks or ...

In a dusty scrap yard on Saginaw's West Side, the success of the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program is evident in the pile of gas guzzlers headed to a metal shredder. The Rifkin Scrap Iron and Metal ...

We had a squatted truck to deal with and a 45-minute drive to town that it had to survive first. After the ban talk started ...

Workers from auto scrap yards across Southern California packed a Planning Commission meeting Tuesday to support their boss's embattled efforts to bring a regional car shredder to a Colton scrap yard.

Despite repeated complaints about metallic odors drifting into surrounding neighborhoods, city health inspectors only cited General Iron Industries once during former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s eight years ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration is facing a federal environmental justice investigation after approving a new scrap shredder in a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood on Chicago’s ...

First responders have rescued a man hurt hours earlier in an industrial accident involving a shredder at an Everett, Massachusetts, business.Sky 5 showed dozens of firefighters and first responders ...