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Colin Bennett

New Copper Law Intended To Cool Off Air-Conditioner Thefts - 0 views

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    State lawmakers had victims like Moore in mind when they passed legislation that requires scrap-metal dealers to keep track of people they buy copper from. The law went into effect this week.
Colin Bennett

If Metal Prices Keep Rising, Look for a Boom in Sawzall Sales - Freakonomics - Opinion ... - 0 views

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    I love stories about the unintended consequences of rising commodity prices. (Here's one, and here's another.) Now Susan Saulny writes in the Times about another strange trend driven by high commodity prices: the rampant theft of cars' catalytic converters, which contain trace amounts of platinum, palladium, and rhodium.
Colin Bennett

Video: Police raid copper cable theft suspect - 0 views

  • British Transport Police say the theft of copper cables from railways has doubled since this time last year.
Colin Bennett

Electricity Substations - The Hidden Cost Of Metal Crime - 0 views

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    "According to Home Office figures metal theft costs the UK £220 million per year. "
Colin Bennett

In the fight against metal theft, focus of efforts needs to be on thieves, not recyclers - 0 views

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    Beginning with prevention, Hydro One taught employees how to better secure materials, and it began replacing copper groundings with a copper-clad alternative that has little scrap value. Alongside this material swap, signage was installed to inform thieves that the material they were targeting was not pure copper and had little value.
Colin Bennett

Artificial DNA to prevent from copper cable thefts - 0 views

  • The theft of copper cables to the wind turbines ENERTRAG will soon be history. "We have decided to mark the cables of all wind turbines and our inventory with artificial DNA," explains Konrad Iffarth, head of the control room of the energy company.
Glycon Garcia

Com preço maior, roubo de cobre no Brasil cresce 11% em 2007 | Brasil | Reuters - 0 views

  • SÃO PAULO (Reuters) - O aumento do preço internacional do cobre colaborou para o crescimento do roubo do produto no Brasil, informaram nesta terça-feira a Associação Brasileira de Cobre (ABC) e o Sindicel, sindicato que reúne as indústrias de condutores elétricos. Segundo as entidades, foram roubadas 840 toneladas de cobre no Brasil em 2007, um aumento de 11 por cento em relação a 2006.
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    Copper theft increased 11% in Brazil in 2007 reaching 840 tons.
Colin Bennett

Copper Thefts Still Problem, Region 8 Counties Want Federal Help - 0 views

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    Legislation that would make it harder for criminals to sell the copper wire would be beneficial to us all," said Bill Martin III, President and CEO of Woodruff Electric.
Colin Bennett

Copper theft on the rise | delawareonline | The News Journal - 0 views

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    Heavy metal larceny is burgeoning, prompting 17 states including Delaware to pass or propose laws tightening regulations on the salvage industry.
Colin Bennett

Second-hand (metal) law to help combat stolen copper cable trade - 0 views

  • The new Act does not allow scrap metal dealers to have in their possession any apparatus which could be used for the recycling of any controlled metal or any article or substance containing any controlled metal, Bezuidenhout said at the Copper Cable Theft conference, in Johannesburg.
Colin Bennett

Time to show steel on metal theft - 0 views

  • Police cannot keep up. Short of a dramatic fall in commodity prices, the only option seems to be to amend the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 to license dealers and ban them from dealing in cash.
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