A friend of mine recently took all of her sly gold jewelry and sold it for a couple of hundred dollars. She did it because business is bad, she needed the specie, she doesn’t wear the jewelry.

She is not the only one who has recycling metals for cash on the brain. Seems that with the soaring require to be paid in steel , there is now a real problem in cities throughout the country where criminal recyclers are helping themselves to incorporated town manholes covers. Recycling a manhole capsule brings in about  $20 at the scrap yard.

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