Recycling Today articles from December 2004

Recycling Today archives from December 2004

The new back yard rulebook.(Editor's Focus)(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... There is an old adage that Americans are supposed to remember when they travel abroad: When you are in somebody else's back yard, you play by their rules. For Americans conducting business overseas, this saying cuts two ways. While...

Demanding attitude.(Scrap Industry news)(demand for ferrous scrap)
December 1, 2004... U.K.-based publishing and consulting firm MEPS (International) Ltd. is predicting that demand for ferrous scrap will continue to strain the supply chain. According to the company's calculations, a 7.5 percent increase in global steel...

Columbus day for Galamba.(Scrap Industry News)(Galamba Metals Group LLC)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Galamba Metals Group LLC, Kansas City, Mo., has added commercial and retail scrap recycling services at its Columbus, Kan., facility. The Columbus yard previously served as a transfer facility for the area's scrap material prior to becoming a...

Pa. fines haulers for trashing recyclables.(Municipal Recycling)(Allied Waste Industries Inc., J.J. Brunner Inc., Waste Management Inc. and County Hauling Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has collected $41,000 in penalties from four trash transporters that did not properly recycle separated materials. An investigation in Latrobe revealed that Greenridge Waste Services...

Additions and corrections.(Municipal Recycling)(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2004... Readers have responded to our requests on several recent occasions to contact us if they see a company name missing or listed with outdated information on one of our recycling industry lists. Following are several additions and corrections...

Not all roses.(Ferrous )(scrap recycling transportation problems)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Prices paid by consumers for ferrous scrap continue to bring smiles to the faces of recyclers, but along with the rosy pricing have come several thorns for scrap processors. Among the woes recyclers cite are renewed mill attempts to hold a...

Search party.(Nonferrous scrap)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Reports of inventories of nonferrous scrap building up at North American facilities may be largely wishful thinking, some recyclers say. Or, just as likely, any inventories of copper and aluminum scrap at processing facilities are already...

A shred of evidence.(Paper)(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The document destruction industry continues to be a critical source of recovered fiber, according to a panel convened at the fall meeting of the Paper Stock Industries (PSI) Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. PSI...

MBA Polymers enters European joint venture.(Electronics Recycling)(Mueller-Guttenbrunn GmbH)
December 1, 2004... MBA Polymers Inc. (MBA), Richmond, Calif., and Mueller-Guttenbrunn GmbH (MG) of Amstetten, Austria, have formed a joint venture company to build and operate a plastics recycling plant in Kematen, Austria. MBA owns 51 percent of the joint...

NEPSI nears a consensus.(Electronics Recycling)(National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... After years of meetings, stakeholders from the electronics manufacturing and retailing segment, the solid waste/recycling industry and the environmental sector through the National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI) have agreed...

Safety first.(C&D News)(National Demolition Association's 11th Annual Safety Summit)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Let's be careful out there. That was the bottom line of the National Demolition Association's 11th Annual Safety Summit, held in late October near Chicago. Nearly 100 people participated in the two-day summit that focused on increasing...

Remember the operations forum!(Equipment Report)(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is hosting an operations forum for scrap recycling plant managers in the shadow of the Alamo in San Antonio, Jan. 20-23, 2005. Billed by ISRI as "a...

It's a bird, it's a plane ...(Equipment Report)
December 1, 2004... An image appearing on page 46 of the October 2004 issue of Recycling Today is neither a bird nor a plane, nor is it a tire shredding machine. The scrap tire commodity focus feature in the October issue included a sidebar entitled "Separate...

Old into new: a healthy scrap climate and a brisk new appliance market keep white goods flowing.(Cover Story)
December 1, 2004... Appliance recycling is one of the more well developed of the recycling segments. White goods, such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, hot water tanks, stoves and air conditioners, are being recycled at a rate of nearly 90 percent. Because...

Curbside clash: experts debate single-stream vs. dual-stream systems at a recent industry conference.(MRF Series)(New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling)
December 1, 2004... During the recently concluded recycling conference sponsored by the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3), several speakers at a well-attended workshop on dual and single-stream recycling touched on many of the...

Baling underfoot: an entrepreneur puts spring into his business by baling old carpet padding for recycling.(Baler Applications)
December 1, 2004... Carpet padding, also known as carpet cushion, represents one of our nation's most efficient closed-loop recycling efforts. The formal name for recycled carpet padding is bonded polyurethane foam, or re-bond carpet padding. You can't...

Pay to play: recycling programs are not likely to keep collecting glass if it proves costly.(Commodity Focus)
December 1, 2004... Getting glass isn't the problem for Hank Mayer, director of the Adams County, Ind., Solid Waste District (SWD). Nearly 110 tons of it ran through his facility in 2003. Mayer says that by September 2004, Adams County had recycled about 80 tons....

Carrying the load: recyclers offer tips for selecting and maintaining containers and trucks to collect and haul recyclables.(Trucks And Containers Focus)
December 1, 2004... There is no shortage of variety when it comes to containers for the residential and commercial collection of recyclables. For residential recycling, collection containers range from curbside boxes to roll carts designed for use with semi-or...

State suport: yes, Virginia, C&D recycling can save money.(C&D Series)(Construction and Demolition)
December 1, 2004... Faced with crowded landfills, high construction costs and environmental concerns, cities and states across the nation are recycling construction debris and implementing other Green Building practices, while trying to minimize cost and timing...

Acting responsibly: genuine recyclers have a duty to recover resources safely and responsibly.(Electronics Recycling Series)
December 1, 2004... I have a friend who gave me Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary for my birthday many years ago. She reasoned something about my reading a page a day and the eloquence that might follow in years to come. The recycling industry has...

Alter Companies.(People)(Bernard Goldstein of Alter Trading Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Bernard Goldstein, chairman of the Iowa-based Alter Companies, has been honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, his alma mater. In addition to his role as chairman of...

In memoriam.(People)(Victor Brown of Resource Conversion Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 1, 2004... Victor Brown, the former president of Resource Conversion Systems Inc., Sugar Land, Texas, died in September at the age of 91. Brown, who was born in Australia to Danish parents who emigrated to the United States when Victor was young,...

Niton XLt plastics analyzer.(Products)
December 1, 2004... * Handheld analyzer features an X-ray tube * Calibration algorithm covers many plastic samples, eliminates need for user interaction or calibration * Automatically encrypts, stores and locks analysis results, protecting against...

American baler DC series.(Products)
December 1, 2004... * Model DC5043 baler designed for distribution centers and warehousing operations * Offers a 50-inch by 41.5 inch opening * Can be used with air-conveyed trim systems to bale shredded secondary fibers, paper trim and scrap *...

Caterpillar B-series skid steer loaders.(Products)
December 1, 2004... * The 252B and 262B feature the turbocharged Cat 30440 DIT engine with 3.3. liters displacement; the 242B includes a turbocharqed Cat 3024C T engine, and high-flow hydraulics are optional; and the 232B includes the 30420 engine * Employ...

Drivers, rev your engines.(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Houston-based Waste Management Inc. (WM) has announced its newest NASCAR sponsorships for the 2005 racing season. WM will sponsor the No. 17 Waste Management Ford Taurus driven by Matt Kenseth in the NASCAR Busch Series. The company will be...

Recycling rocks on.(Peter DuBois, a waste reduction specialist)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... While his fashion statement may be questionable, his recycling message is not. Peter DuBois, a waste reduction specialist with Washington's Clark County Public Works Department, performs as Recycleman. Accompanied by the Dumpster Divers...

From scrap to sculpture.(American Iron)(Metal Sculpture Competition)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... American Iron, Minneapolis, has announced the winners of its fourth annual Metal Sculpture Competition held in conjunction with the Minneapolis Aquatennial Celebration in July. The artwork is built from scrap from American Iron. The company...