Determination and $200
How Recycling Helped to Build Wealth

What can you do with $200 and a rented truck? Ask entrepreneur Marsha Serlin, who in 1978, relying upon just such minimal assets, founded United Scrap Metal, the first woman-owned scrap metal company in the United States. From these humble beginnings, United has grown into a company that today, generates revenues in excess of $150 million and employs more than 150 people.

United did not spring up overnight, however, and Serlin’s accomplishments did not come easily.

Read the full story in the Spring 2008 issue of Positively