Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Across the United States, a crucial piece of emissions equipment has quietly turned into one of the hottest targets for ...

The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

Johnny Wactor, an actor who formerly starred in “General Hospital,” caught people in the act of stealing the catalytic converter from his car Saturday. Tragically, one of the thieves, according to ...

Junk dealers will now have to collect information from catalytic converter sellers, if they weren't already, under an amended Kansas scrap metal law signed Monday by Gov. Laura Kelly. Kelly signed ...

Catalytic converters aren’t the most glamorous part of your car – in fact, it’s not even visible unless you crawl under. But catalytic converters, which change engine pollutants into less harmful ...

More than 150,000 catalytic converters were stolen between 2020 and 2022. A nationwide crime trend plaguing car owners has gained renewed focus amid the unsolved killing of "General Hospital" actor ...