Rising need for copper prompts cable manufacturers to recycl

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.

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