Recycling Today articles from January 2005

Recycling Today archives from January 2005

Energized purpose.(Editor's Focus)(energy savings of prudent recycling )(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Recycling advocates--defined here as those who wish to see the recycling of more materials even without a profit incentive--have spent the past several years wondering if recycling could recapture the public imagination as a worthy cause. ...

ISRI, SMA decry scrap barriers.(Scrap Industry News)(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)(Steel Manufacturers Association)(trade measures against Russia and Ukraine on scrap exports)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the Steel Manufacturers Association, both based in Washington, have filed a joint statement calling for trade measures against Russia and Ukraine for imposing taxes and tariffs on scrap exports....

Seeing red over copper scrap.(Scrap Industry News)(China plans to be a leading nation in copper scrap processing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... A provincial government in China has announced its intention to grow as a leading copper scrap processing center for that nation. According to the Interfax news agency, provincial leaders in Zhejiang have "laid out a strategic plan for the...

2005 NASMD available.(Scrap Industry News)(North American Scrap Metals Directory)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The 2005 edition of the North American Scrap Metals Directory is now available. Published by the Recycling Today Media Group, Cleveland, the annual directory provides comprehensive state-by-state listings of scrap yards in the U.S. ...

Delaware offers recycling assistance grants.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), in cooperation with the Governor's Recycling Public Advisory Council (RPAC), is accepting applications for the fiscal year 2005 Recycling Assistance Grant Program....

Pa. DEP awards grant to promote recycling industry growth.(Municipal Recycling)(Department of Environmental Protection)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Penn State University has received an $863,000 grant to create the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center (RMC) at Penn State-Harrisburg to encourage the continued growth and economic health of Pennsylvania's recycling industry. The RMC's...

Recycling grant helps create jobs in Ohio.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... A 2005 Recycling Market Development Grant from the Ohio Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention will allow Advanced Fiber Technologies of Bucyrus to hire 30 new employees. The firm plans to use the $100,000 grant toward the purchase of...

New York doles out grant money.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... New York Gov. George E. Pataki has announced waste reduction and recycling grants totaling more than $8.7 million to 27 municipalities across New York State, including a $2 million grant to New York City for public outreach and education to...

Held aloft.(Ferrous)(ferrous scrap demand and supply trends)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Processors and shippers of ferrous scrap waiting for the market to take a seasonal plunge did not see it in November. Although some early December events (such as some lower auction pricing and an attempt by Nucor to lower prices on some of...

Chasing al.(Nonferrous)(overseas competition for copper and ferrous scrap)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Aluminum scrap consumers are starting to experience the feeling of coming up empty while sourcing scrap--something consumers of other scrap materials competing with Chinese buyers have grown familiar with over the past couple of years. The...

Stable condition.(Paper)(Old newspaper price rise )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... After the somewhat volatile market for many grades of recovered fiber throughout the past several quarters, 2005 is expected to be more stable. Prices should remain on the positive side, as domestic and overseas paper companies see improved...

Pa. DEP awards infrastructure development grants.(Plastics)(Pennsylvania. Department of Environmental Protection)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Waste Not Technologies LLC of Saylorsburg, Pa., and at St. Jude Polymer Corp. of Frackville, Pa. have received $485,000 in recycling markets infrastructure development grants from Pennsylvania to finance equipment purchases that will increase...

USPL drops composite lumber line.(Plastics)(U.S. Plastic Lumber corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... U.S. Plastic Lumber, headquartered in Chicago, has announced its plans to exit the composite decking and OEM composite business. The company's decision relates to USPL's plan to focus on its PE product lines, which include its Trimax...

BIR Committee to investigate plastic scrap specs.(Plastics)(Bureau of International Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Members of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Plastics Committee are creating a working group to develop grades and specifications for plastic scrap to help to unify global trading standards for these materials. At the BIR...

Dell teams up with NYC Dept. of Education.(Electronics Recycling)(New York City)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The New York City Department of Education (DOE) has called on Dell to recycle 50,000 pieces of outdated computer equipment. In its largest recycling project since launching Asset Recovery Services (ASR) in July 2003, Dell is removing...

RAA uses MRF infrastructure for electronics.(Electronics Recycling)(Recycle America Alliance LLC)(materials recovery facilities)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Recycle America Alliance LLC, a subsidiary of Houston-based Waste Management Inc., has initiated new electronics recycling collection services in Wisconsin, adding e-cycling services to five of its materials recovery facilities (MRFs). The...

Citiraya Inc. opens Texas plant.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Citiraya Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its Round Rock, Texas, electronics recycling plant in November 2004 with a ceremony that included Round Rock Mayor Nyle Maxwell, International Association of Electronics Recycling President Peter...

AASHTO names recycling leader.(C&D News)(American Association of State Highway Transportation Official)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Cecil Jones, the state materials engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, has been named chair of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Official's (AASHTO) task force on recycled materials. AASHTO is...

Gypsum has online home.(C&D News)(construction and demolition materials recycling)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) has helped launch www.drywallrecycling.org, an online resource on how to recycle gypsum wall-board from the construction and demolition materials stream, The U.S. EPA Region Five...

Busch Systems president honored.(Equipment Report)(Busch Systems International Inc. entrepreneur award)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Craig Busch, president of Busch Systems International Inc. (www.BuschSystems.com) has been named the Arch Brown Entrepreneur of the Year for 2004 in the company's home city of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. The award recognizes individuals who...

Shear immensity.(Equipment Report)(mobile shears )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Genesis Attachments, Superior, Wis., has introduced a new addition to its line of XP Series mobile shears that it has dubbed "The World's Largest Mobile Shear." Capable of providing more than 3,000 tons of cutting force at 5,000 psi, the...

Building a niche: the residential housing boom has helped U.S. GreenFiber grow as an end market for recycled newspapers.(Company Profile)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... When people think of end markets for recovered fiber, they may think of a large newsprint mill. Others may see their recovered fiber end up in corrugated containers. Still some other people may find out that much of the recovered fiber ends up...

Revved up.(Commodity Focus)
January 1, 2005... Titanium is hot as an F-16's afterburners. Nickel markets are flying high, too. It is no accident that the specialty metals markets are nudging new highs on a weekly basis. Civil aviation and military spending levels are both up and demand is...

Gauging the trade winds.(business trends)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Consultants and analysts who study business trends seem to agree that the pace of change in the business world is occurring faster than it ever has. Instant communication, real-time sales and inventory tracking and an emphasis on flexible...

Flexing its strength: restructuring has helped stabilize the steel industry, so will steel mills start flexing their purchasing muscles?
January 1, 2005... The purchase of International Steel Group (ISG), Cleveland, by the Mittal Steel Co. is only the most recent acquisition to sweep the world steel industry. Steel mills have been charging into the merger and acquisition mentality in the last two...

Cleaning up: aluminum scrap consumers may need to explore ways to use lower grades of scrap.
January 1, 2005... In North America, Hydro Aluminum NA is one of several aluminum producers competing for aluminum scrap. The company has been focusing research and technology efforts on ways to use additional scrap grades--such as forms of obsolete aluminum...

Cold front? Chinese government attempts to control waste flows could cool the importing of copper scrap.(copper scrap trade rules)
January 1, 2005... As with most types of metal, robust demand for copper scrap from Chinese buyers has propelled pricing for the material to record levels. This surge in demand has soaked up a tremendous amount of copper scrap throughout the world, including the...

Aluminum scrap consumer map.
January 1, 2005... Recycling Today is taking a departure from its usual routine in this year's Scrap Metals Supplement. Rather than feature the ferrous scrap flow map that has been presented annually since 1998, this year's map offers a list of aluminum scrap...

Healthy appetite: as long as developing economies need steel, the hunger for scrap will continue.
January 1, 2005... I suppose the name of the company I work for--with the words "statistics" and "steel"--gives a pretty good clue as to what I study and research. But the main focus of this presentation is going to be on ferrous scrap. To do this, I'd first...

Survival of the fittest: by focusing on service and integrity, mid-sized scrap companies will remain contenders in the market, owners say.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2005... Marty Davis's great-great grandfather founded what would become Midland Davis Corp., Moline Ill., in 1892, collecting scrap metal with the aid of a horse and buggy. "Whether business was good or bad, the horse had to eat, he would say," recalls...

New kid in town: the emergence of hybrid-fueled cars could boost the number of nickel-metal hydride batteries in the recycling stream.
January 1, 2005... In general, battery recycling has a positive reputation. More than 97 percent of lead-acid batteries are recycled, according to the Web site of the Chicago-based Battery Council International (BCI). This compares to 55 percent of aluminum...

Driving questions: selecting a shredder drive involves staying current with AC/DC differences.
January 1, 2005... During the 1990s, scrap yards could choose their shredder drives. The rule of thumb applied to drive selection was that alternating current (AC) wound-rotor drives were preferable for super-sized shredders (6,000 hp and above) while direct...

Industry terms: glossary of scrap and metals.(Glossary)
January 1, 2005... ANODE--Half of an electrolytic corrosion cell in metal from which metal dissolves, often leaving pits. The part of a corrosion cell in which oxidation occurs. AUTOMOBILE SHREDDER--A hammermill-style shredder large enough to shred whole...

Trade associations: a directory of metals industry.(Directory)
January 1, 2005... THE ALUMINUM ASSOCIATION 900 19th St. NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Ph: (202) 862-5100 Fax: (202) 862-5164 Web Site: aluminum.org ALUMINUM EXTRUDERS COUNCIL 1000 N Rand Rd., Suite 214 Wauconda, IL 60084 ...

Investigating reuse markets: recyclers hope to strengthen export markets through a new electronics association.(Electronics Recycling Series)
January 1, 2005... Electronics recycling is one of the most talked about businesses in the scrap industry, but estimates of how much scrap is out there vary widely. The National Safety Council published a study in 2000 that assumes the average lifespan of a...

Aleris International.(People)(Aleris International Inc. fromed by IMCO Recycling and Commonwealth Industries)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The recently combined IMCO Recycling and Commonwealth Industries has chosen Aleris International Inc. as its new name, suburban Cleveland as its new headquarters and Steven J. Demetriou, previously president and CEO of Commonwealth, as chairman...

Heil Environmental Industries Ltd.(People)(appointment of Buck Buchanan)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Collection truck provider Hell Environmental Industries Ltd., Chattanooga, Tenn., has named Buck Buchanan as its director of key accounts. Heil has employed Buchanan since 2001. He has served as the account manager for Allied Waste...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... JAN. 10-13 ProMat 2005, Chicago, The Material Handling Industry of America, (704) 676-1190 JAN. 18-21 World of Concrete 2005, Las Vegas, The Aberdeen Group, (630) 543-0870 JAN. 27-29 CONDEX/AED Annual Meeting, San...

Thermal dynamics torch coolants.(Products)
January 1, 2005... * Four coolants for use with any water-cooled cutting and welding torch * Include three freeze-resistant propylene-glycol-based coolants and a new de-ionized water mixture called De-I-Cool designed for applications when temperatures always...

One plus baler boss.(Products)
January 1, 2005... * Monitor control system designed for control of baler access and accountability of bales produced * Can be retrofitted to existing balers, whether horizontal or vertical * Easily add or lock out users onsite or remotely via modem ...

Linde 80v class I lift truck.(Products)
January 1, 2005... * The 336 Series of 80 volt electric counter-balanced lift * trucks Includes pneumatic- and cushion-tire models * Four models with capacities from 5,000 to 6,500 pounds * Linde Digital Control (LDC) manages the two shunt-wound drive...

Reading, writing and recycling.(Back Page)(Scattergood Friends School recycling program)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Scattergood Friends School, near West Branch, Iowa, has been awarded the 2004 Best School Recycling Program prize by the Iowa Recycling Association (IRA). Scattergood is a long-time customer of City Carton Recycling, Iowa City, Iowa,...

Recycled content, to go.(Back Page)(Mississippi River Corp to use recycled cups)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Starbucks has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Mississippi River Corp., a Starbucks supply chain member, approval to use recycled content in its paper hot beverage cups. Mississippi River Corp. says it is the...

Over your head.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Armstrong World Industries, headquartered in Lancaster, Pa., reports that it has diverted more than 20 million square feet of acoustical ceiling tiles from landfills through its recycling program. Since Armstrong, the country's largest...