Recycling Today articles from July 2004

Recycling Today archives from July 2004

One step at a time.(Editor's Focus)(Importance of Recycling)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... Progress is not only hard to measure and to define, it can also be difficult to distinguish while it is taking place. Even when most of us can agree that a certain widely accepted practice or technique indeed represents an advancement, enough...

Deadline for China exports hits.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Unless scrap recycling trade groups have been successful asking for a extension, new permitting requirements to export scrap metal to China have already taken effect. The Chinese government was due to enact new registration requirements...

Allied updates ISO certification.(Scrap Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Allied Metal Co., Chicago, has announced that its quality management system is now compilant with ISO 9001:2000 standards set by the International Organization for Standardization. A certificate of compliance was recently issued to Allied...

Kansas City expands program.(Municipal Recycling)
July 1, 2004... The second phase of the curbside recyclables collection program for Kansas City, Mo., began June 1. The first phase of the program began March 1 and covered roughly one-sixth of the city. The second phase of the curbside program includes an...

NYC to perform study.(Municipal Recycling)(New York City)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... R.W. Beck Inc., a management consulting and engineering firm headquartered in Orlando, is working with New York City on a multi-year project to study the city's solid waste composition to better plan for its future waste management needs. ...

On the fence.(Ferrous)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The phrase "buyer's remorse" may be more commonly associated with the purchase of a luxury item, but it also seems to apply to steel mill buyers who purchased scrap at prices greater than $200 per ton. Scrap dealers reported a noticeable...

Simple connection: CMC's Springfield, Mo., facility benefits from the Fuchs Quick Connect system.(Commercial Metals Co.)(Fuchs Machinery Inc.)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Efficiency is measured carefully at Commercial Metals Co. (CMC), which is why managers of the company's Springfield, Mo., scrap recycling facility are glad they own a Fuchs MHL 350 scrap handler with the Quick Connect system. Three Fuchs...

Out in the open.(Nonferrous)(Scrap metals prices)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The upward trend in scrap pricing has had its desired effect on nonferrous scrap flow so far in 2004, recyclers report. Recyclers who last year wondered whether scrap peddlers and scavengers were an endangered species say that the peak...

Phenomenal markets.(Paper)(Spring Convention of the Bureau of International Recycling)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... According to speakers at the Spring Convention of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), the continued strength of Asian economies will result in strong markets for scrap paper in the developed world. Based on fundamentals of...

State orders removal of glass stockpile.(Glass)(Pennsylvania. Department of Environmental Protection)(Cougle's Recycling Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Cougle's Recycling Inc., a processing facility for glass, paper, plastic and other recyclables, to remove approximately 35,000 tons of unprocessed glass from its Hamburg...

California targets glass bottles.(Nonmetallics)(California. Department of Conservation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In 2002, Californians bought an estimated 2.7 billion bottles of beer and another 700 million beverages sold in glass bottles. However, according to research released by the California Department of Conservation (DOC), Sacramento, nearly half...

E-Scrap 2004 announces dates.(Electronics Recycling)(E-Scrap 2004: The North American Electronics Recycling Conference)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... E-Scrap 2004: The North American Electronics Recycling Conference will take place Oct. 19-20, 2004, in Minneapolis at the Hilton Minneapolis. Resource Recycling, publisher of E-Scrap News and Resource Recycling magazine, is the conference...

California assembly passes cell phone bill.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The California State Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 2901, requiring retailers of cellular phones to recycle old telephones at no cost, by a vote of 41-32. The bill, sponsored by Assembly Member Fran Pavley, also would require public...

Battle to the finish.(C&D News)(Testing of Ohio. Department of Transportation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is conducting a test to determine the long-term costs and benefits of concrete and asphalt as paving surfaces for state highways. Two different contractors are currently preparing to each pave an...

Critics urge stricter California landfill rules.(C&D News)(GrassRoots Recycling Network)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Saying current landfill financial assurance rules and landfill regulations are a "ticking time bomb" that stifles recycling, the GrassRoots Recycling Network, Madison, Wis., and the Sierra Club, San Francisco, are pressuring the California...

OmniSource buys stainless steel separator.(Equipment Report)(OmniSource Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... OmniSource Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., has purchased a 96-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator from Wendt Corp. for one of its Toledo, Ohio, locations. The equipment, which will be installed in August, is designed to recover metals currently...

Casella adopts SAI software.(Equipment Report)(Casella Waste Systems Inc.)(Systems Alternatives Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Casella Waste Systems Inc., Rutland, Vt., is a new user of the Commercial Enterprise Recycling System (CRES) software by Systems Alternatives International (SAI), Maumee, Chic. SAI will help Casella implement the system during the summer,...

Terex broadens hydraulic line.(Terex Construction Americas' marketing agreements with Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Terex Corp.'s Terex Construction Americas division, Southaven, Miss., has reached a joint marketing arrangement with South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries to offer a line of Terex-branded hydraulic excavators and wheel loaders. The company...

Poised and ready: Shine Bros. Corp. prepares for a world of opportunity from its company's home in Spencer, Iowa.(Company Profile)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... In what could be a score from a Western movie, the origins of Shine Bros. Corp. trace back to a couple of strangers emerging onto a train station platform in a small railroad town. In this case, the strangers were not gunslingers, but...

Compression forces: consumers of recycled PET and HDPE are hungry for more material, though modest recycling rates threaten the stability of the recycling infrastructure.(polyethylene terephthalate and high-density polyethylene)
July 1, 2004... Consumers of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastics have bemoaned their supply deficiencies for quite some time. While plastic bottles continue to gain market share in the beverage industry,...

Swept up: a wave of consolidation sweeps the steel industry in the aftermath of the section 201 tariff.(Ferrous Consumer Focus)
July 1, 2004... When President Bush passed the steel tariff, known as Section 201, one of the basic goals was for the domestic steel industry to "get its financial house in order." In positing the tariff, the Bush Administration said that one of its goals...

Momentum shift: Chinese scrap copper purchases have eased back, but does it mark a genuine slowdown in the metals production shift?(Copper Exports Report)
July 1, 2004... Statistics compiled throughout the early part of this decade regarding copper scrap tell an amazing tale, particularly in the category of U.S. exports. As domestic secondary refining and smelting capacity stayed static or dwindled, depending on...

Globe trotting: recyclers had opportunities to gather and learn in Berlin, Dallas and San Diego this spring.(Convention Wrap Up)
July 1, 2004... Global trading patterns, national economic trends and regional and local best practices were all topics of conversation at recycling industry events that took place this spring. International factors were naturally top of mind at the Spring...

Ansam Metals Corp.(People)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ansam Metals Corp. President Samuel S. Kahan has announced the election of Benjamin Zager to the position of executive vice president of the Baltimore-based nonferrous metals firm. Kahan says Zager will also continue in his current...

Belmont Metals Inc.(People)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Nonferrous metals and alloys provider Belmont Metals Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., has acquired Ney Metals, also of Brooklyn, and has made several personnel announcements as a result of the acquisition. Former Ney Metals Vice President Ron Mayer...

Eriez Magnetics.(People)(Process Equipment Manufacturers Association)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Chester "Chet" Giermak, former president of Eriez Magnetics, has received a Special Recognition Award from the Process Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA), Falls Church, Va. The former president of the Erie, Pa.-based maker of...

The Maryland Recyclers Coalition.(People)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lori Scozzafava, director of technical programs for the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), has been elected to the Maryland Recyclers Coalition (MRC) board of directors. "I am very excited to serve the Maryland Recyclers...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... JULY 12-15 Managing MSW Recycling Systems and Electronics Recycling Training Courses, Nashville, Tenn., Solid Waste Association of North America, www.SWANAstore.com JULY 26 ISRI Northern Ohio Chapter Golf Outing, Solon, Ohio, ISRI Northern...

Hyundai 7 series wheel loaders.(Products)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * HL730-7, HL730TM-7 and HL730XTD-7 models available * Deliver greater power, productivity and precision than earlier machines * The Ergo-power automatic transmission control system increases productivity and offers smoother gear...

Cutmaster 101 1Series brochure.(Products)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * A four-page, full-color brochure providing details on all features and specifications of the Cutmaster 101 air plasma cutting system * The 1Series family includes the Cutmaster 38, 51, 81 and 101 machines * Systems are suitable for...

Cat M325C MH and LMH material handlers.(Products)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Wheeled material handlers designed to meet the production requirements of the scrap, millyard, demolition and bulk handling industries * Offer increased horsepower and hydraulic flow for improved performance * Longer service...

Aim scrap & tire grapples.(Products)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Grapple features seven boxed AR400 steel tines for superior durability * Structure incorporates a three tine-over-four-tine design and a reinforced solid box body * Includes a four-bolt flanged hinge that maintains the linkage of...

Can-do attitude.(Back Page)
July 1, 2004... In honor of Homeownership Month in June, Americans were Invited to help ease the strain on millions of households by recycling aluminum cans through the Cans for Habitat program. Since its inception in 1997, nearly 570 Habitat for Humanity...

Saddle up.(Back Page)(Industrial Services of America Inc.,)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Industrial Services of America Inc. (ISA), Louisville, Ky., has announced its participation in Gallopalooza, the city's sidewalk "derby." Similar to Chicago's Cows on Parade and Cincinnati's Big Pig Gig, Gallopalooza features more than 200...

Salvaging ideas from print.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... How to Salvage Millions from Your Small Business, a book by Fort Worth author Ron Sturgeon and Seattle-area author D.L. Fritz, both auto recyclers, has sold foreign reproduction rights to a Chinese publisher and is available in Chinese. ...