Sentence examples for scrap collector from inspiring English sources

"He's getting all stressed over this," said Robert Stewart Jr., a Kentwood scrap collector who knows both the Spearses and the Alexanders.

Listening to a description of surveillance efforts by the Water Department and recent arrests, John Sergeant, a scrap collector from North Philadelphia, laughed.

A few days later a man described as a scrap collector went to the Hippodrome and tried to take the last piece.

Now that most of the stolen statues have been found, the Academy is under pressure to ensure their saviour, an LA scrap collector, is given both the $50,000 reward and a seat at Sunday night's beanfeast.

Several also developed burns, and one (the first scrap collector) had to have his finger amputated.

The scrapyard employees continued to feel sick during the following week, and on 12 February the scrapyard owner, believing the metal to be causing the illness, asked the scrap collector to take it elsewhere, and had the two smaller metal pieces thrown away.

Scrap collectors and street vendors have no employment contracts.

Children working as scrap collectors gathered the remains of charred vehicles.

Each morning, itinerant scrap collectors make their rounds, clanging chimes and calling out for paper, bottles or cans.

Then, in the fall, contractors working for the State Department and journalists working for The New York Times found the bomblets again, and doctors and scrap collectors in Mizdah reported people being wounded by them.

A kilogram of steel can be sold to scrap collectors for as little as 2,000 kip (16p) – a tiny amount but a tempting earner in areas with few other options for making a living.