The ugly mountain of crushed metal heaped at the foot of the Platt Memorial Bridge near the airport - the gateway to Philadelphia for millions of visitors - could soon be gone.
You know the gritty area: 26th Street and Penrose Avenue in South Philadelphia, bordered by a refinery tank farm, a wastewater treatment plant, and billboards hawking booze, burgers, and cars. The Champs Elysees, it's not.
Camden Iron & Metal Inc., which has owned the yard since the 1980s, reducing cars and washing machines to mounds of scrap, is looking to move and consolidate its metal-shredding operation and shipping business at a single location.
Click here to read the full article -- http://www.philly.com/philly/business/83864962.html
Latest from Recycling Today
- Cards Recycling, Live Oak Environmental merge to form Ecowaste
- Indiana awards $500K in recycling grants
- Atlantic Alumina partners with US government on alumina, gallium production
- GP Recycling president retires
- Novelis Latchford commissions new bag houses
- UK facility focuses on magnet recycling
- Aduro revenue increases while losses widen
- Worldsteel updates its indirect steel data
