Are we really a nation of scrap metal collectors and lumberjacks?

Did you see anyone taking some of the trash for recycling, such as a scrap metal collector?

The real daily routine of the scrap metal collectors could definitely not be shown.

In the days after the fire, investigators quickly focused on the possibility that it was started by scrap metal collectors.

He worked as a laborer, a welder and a scrap metal collector.

The woman did get a license plate number and police are looking for the man who is a known trash and scrap metal collector.

As a young man he worked in foundries, while later on he was better known as a second hand dealer and scrap metal collector.

Lundstrom was a scrap metal collector, buying anything made of iron, steel, tin or aluminum, then reselling it to be melted down.

"Sanders has worked as a welder, a scrap metal collector, a night watchman, a pallet fabricator and a handyman."

A scrap metal collector was fatally stabbed outside a metal processing business in Brownsville yesterday, said the victim's co-workers.

They now join the list of it's owners.. which have included wealthy people in an ancient land and the grand son of a scrap metal collector.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has provided guides for scrap metal collectors on what a sealed source might look like.

Technician Nguyen Hoang Thang said: "Scrap metal collectors are very useful, helpful.

Burning insulated wires is a common way for scrap metal collectors to rid them of their surrounding plastic sleeves, making them more valuable, the authorities said.

Film-maker Christian Frei states "Filming the work of the Kazakh scrap metal collectors was anything but easy."

"We are negotiating an agreement with the Indonesian government to make sure that they don't become the victims of pirates and scrap metal collectors," Love told the hearing.

They occupy the space once held by the many file cabinets I’ve emptied, which were picked up by scrap metal collectors almost as soon as they hit the street.

To put an ode to scrap metal collectors in The Record's Opinion section during the Memorial Day weekend goes beyond the pale ("On the home front," Page O-1, May 30).

The accident happened when an insecurely stored unlicensed cobalt-60 radiation source was recovered by scrap metal collectors who, together with a scrapyard worker, subsequently dismantled the container, unknowingly exposing themselves and others nearby to ionizing radiation.

Brownfield sites will be developed (bad news for the scrap metal collectors and fly-tippers of the future), density will increase in underpopulated areas, previously maligned backwaters will be blessed with their own cereal cafes and artisan bakeries.

Though documentation exists of rag pickers and scrap metal collectors supplying goods to paper mills and foundries as early as the 17th century, modern waste picking did not flourish in the US and Europe until the 19th century.

Men like Samuel Goldwyn, a former glove salesman, Adolph Zukor, a fur merchant, and Louis B. Mayer, a scrap metal collector, got their start buying penny arcades and showing short silent films to other immigrants for 5 cents a peek.

In February 2002, armed Predators are thought to have been used to destroy a sport utility vehicle belonging to suspected Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and mistakenly killed Afghan scrap metal collectors near Zhawar Kili because one of them resembled Osama bin Laden.