送交者: 妖魔 于 2005-5-23, 09:19:14:
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002274686_chinasteelscrap14.html
Thieves feed China's need for scrap metal
By Peter McGill
Bloomberg News
At Belgium's biggest railway station, 770 of 800 steel luggage carts have vanished. In Pittsburgh, 400 parking meters were plucked from roadsides, and in Shanghai, China, manhole covers are disappearing from the streets.
From London to Calcutta, India, scavengers are plundering anything that contains iron, steel or copper, costing local governments and companies millions of dollars. Prices in the $85 billion global scrap market have tripled since 2003 as China has sucked in recycled metal from around the world.
"There is an almost insatiable global demand for scrap, mainly to feed China's steel mills and its booming economy," says Rick Wilcox, director general of the British Metals Recycling Association in Brampton, England.
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