Cable manufacturers ramp up copper recycling to meet clean electricity demand
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Across the industry, manufacturers have been reusing and recycling some degree of copper for many years.
In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot furnace. Next come pieces of discarded copper wire.