How to Build a Scrap Material Reference Guide for Everyday Collecting
Material knowledge in scrap lives in the heads of collectors who have been doing it for years, and a reference guide is simply that knowledge moved somewhere it can be used by someone still learning. The guide is not a textbook, it is the answers to the questions the same materials raise every week, written […]
What Russia’s scrap export duties did to its own market
Russia tried to keep its scrap at home with export duties, and it mostly succeeded. The lesson is not that duties fail. It is that they succeed at one thing and quietly fail at another, because the metal stays in the country while the price paid to the people who collect it falls. The Russian […]