Steel too. I saw a lot of old crushed cars going into the steel mill where I worked when I was (much) younger.
By and large, the reporteer must have been choking during the interview. This guy punctured basically *all* of the enviro-nazis favorite causes.
Aluminum is the most extreme example, where the recycle cost is a very small fraction of the production cost, but copper, steel, and other metals are generally still worth recycling.
Plastic and newspaper and the like are a lib joke, they are just too stupid to get it.