Recycling Today articles from October 2004

Recycling Today archives from October 2004

In for the long haul.(Editor's Focus)(Materials Recovery Facility)(Hugo Neu Corporation)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Recycling advocates who just a couple of years ago singled out New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as someone leading a charge in the wrong direction--away from recycling--must now re-examine their criticism of the mayor's policies. The...

Weapons of scrapped destruction?(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Where have Saddam Hussein's reputed weapons of mass destruction been hiding for the past 16 months? Possibly the scrap yard. When scrap metal export restrictions were declared in Iraq earlier this year by the Coalition Provisional...

North star dimming.(Scrap Industry News)
October 1, 2004... Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. has taken a giant stride away from steelmaking with the sale of eight facilities to Gerdau Ameristeel U.S. Inc. The Gerdau U.S. subsidiary of the Toronto-based steelmaker has entered into definitive...

The right impression.(Scrap Industry News)(Morris Brothers Metals' new facility got community support)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... While many scrap recyclers face community opposition when they open a new facility, Morris Brothers Metals, a subsidiary of Morris Recycling Inc., New Albany, Miss., has turned potential opposition to a location into strong support. ...

Kansas City agency to issue grants.(Municipal Recycling)
October 1, 2004... The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) will be issuing a request for proposal for its 2005 District grant program. The RFP is expected to be released in October. MARC serves as the association of city and county governments and the...

New York State seeks to eliminate tire piles.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is preparing a plan designed to abate all noncompliant tire stockpiles in the state by the end of 2010. In developing the plan, DEC representatives visited 162 locations in...

Spin cycle.(Ferrous)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A dizzying variety of factors are combining to make for a speculation-filled autumn for the ferrous scrap market. A market of historically high scrap prices has steelmakers scrambling to figure out how to best maintain their margins. Some...

Steady stainless.(Nonferrous)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Although nickel producers have some new mining projects underway, the current tilt toward more demand than supply could stay in place in the nickel sector through 2005. A panel of speakers assembled at the Pittsburgh Chapter of the...

Primed for growth.(Paper)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... While industry watchers have noted all year that paper recycling markets are showing significant improvement, during the recently concluded National Recycling Coalition's Annual Congress a roster of speakers touted the substantial shift in...

Cargill Dow presents PLA research data.(Plastics)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Preparing for the use of polylactide (PLA) in the manufacturing of bottles, Cargill Dow is following testing guidelines identified in the Arlington, Va.-based Association of Postconsumer Recyclers' (APR) Champions for Change program to ensure...

Itec receives low-interest loan.(Nonmetallics)(Itec Environmental Group Inc)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Itec Environmental Group Inc., Oakdale, Calif., has received approval for a $2 million tow-interest loan from the California Integrated Waste Management Board through the Recycle Market Development Zone Loan Program. "We worked with the...

HP sets goal for 2007.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Hewlett Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has announced that it is accelerating its product recycling program by setting a goal to recycle 1 billion pounds of electronic products and printing supplies globally by 2007. This goal is specific...

Dell names grant winners.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dell, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, has announced 20 grant winners that each will receive $10,00O to organize and stage "No Computer Should Go To Waste" collection events throughout the United States this fall. The winners were selected...

Providing a demolition-to-scrap link.(C&D News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... In a market like the one that scrap dealers are experiencing in 2004, new sources of scrap are always welcome. The Investment Recovery Association, Kansas City, Mo., may be able to provide a few. Barry Stein of Ansam Metals Corp.,...

London calling.(BIR News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Recyclers from around the world will have no shortage of topics to discuss when they gather in London for the 2004 Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Autumn Round-Table Sessions. BIR boards and committees will be hosting meetings and...

Genesis establishes demolition division.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Genesis Attachments, Superior, Wis., has established a new company division dedicated specifically to the demolition market. Headed up by Mark Ramun, formerly Genesis' Great Lakes regional manager and product specialist, the newly-formed...

Sennebogens serve Richman yard.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Two Sennebogen 835 R-HD tracked scrap handlers are performing a variety of material handling tasks at S.D. Richman Sons Inc. in Philadelphia, a dealer for Sennebogen LLC, Charlotte, N.C. Bruce and David Richman acquired the machines through...

Working overtime: America's auto shredder capacity grows to feed a hungry global market.(Auto Shredder Update)(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... When Recycling Today last published its list of auto, shredding plants in the United States, in October of 2002, the ferrous scrap market was just starting to bounce back after a prolonged slump. In the ensuing 24 months, the global steel...

Colmar: manufactured in Italy, trusted worldwide.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2004... Humble Beginnings Colmar began in the Veneto region of Italy shortly after World War II with one man's vision to use parts leftover from U.S. Army vehicles to build tractors for the agricultural industry. Shortly afterward, Colmar added a...

Holy grail: the quest to establish high-value end markets remains a top goal for tire recyclers.(Commodity Focus)
October 1, 2004... Tire recyclers don't necessarily need additional technological breakthroughs. They don't need bigger trucks or more powerful shredders. What they do need are people in the office with marketing plans, sharp adding machines and a way to promote...

The right combination: several factors led Gold Metal Recyclers in Dallas to choose Fuchs.(Fuchs MHL 360 model scrap handler)
October 1, 2004... When the scrap market began to heat up in 2003, Neil and Ken Goldberg, the co-owners of the Gold Metal Recyclers facility in Dallas, realized that they would need additional mobile material handling capacity to match increased production...

Best practices make perfect.(Ray's Trash Services Inc.)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
October 1, 2004... What started as a side business in 1965 has grown to four facilities and 330 employees. Ray and Barbara Mathews founded Ray's Trash Service with one truck in Clayton, Ind., west of Indianapolis, to keep their three sons busy. In 1982, Don...

Higher voltage: wire recyclers in the U.S. are ramping up their systems to welcome the return of abundant material streams.(Wire Recycling Update)
October 1, 2004... During most of 2003, scrap recyclers engaged in processing wire and cable were openly worried about the future of their recycling sector. At the time, brokers representing consuming mills and smelters based in China were making generous offers...

At the crossroads.(outsourcing)
October 1, 2004... I must admit, while most times I am fairly apathetic when it comes to national or local politics this year I have become quite the political junkie. While the overarching theme of both candidates, at least at this time, is national security, a...

Consuming passion: SP Newsprint Co. is a devoted, but critical, consumer of scrap paper.
October 1, 2004... Newsprint manufacturer SP Newsprint Co., Atlanta, has made major capital investments reflecting its commitment to using recovered paper in the creation of its products. Along with its devotion to the use of recovered fiber, the company and...

Going global: both the demand for and the supply of recovered paper will push a trend toward more cross-border trading.
October 1, 2004... The following text is an edited version of remarks made by Bill Moore at the opening of the keynote session of the 2004 Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, which took place in Atlanta in late June. The paper recovery business continues...

Beat the clock: the onus is on exporters as an important inspection deadline in China looms.(General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine)
October 1, 2004... The Chinese government has reacted to widespread concerns over perceived shipments of sub-standard secondary commodities by imposing new inspection techniques that will soon greet all shipments of imported scrap materials. The Chinese...

Sierra International Machinery LLC.(Advertisement)
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A faster baler means more profit.(Macpresse 110 from Sierra International Machinery Inc.)
October 1, 2004... Mario Jurcik, owner of Dupage Paper Stock, Streamwood, Ill., has 30 years of experience in the paper recycling industry. During his career, which has included stints with Waste Management and Container Corp., he's worked with numerous balers....

High capacity baling of recyclables.(Evergreen Paper Recycling's equipment)
October 1, 2004... Evergreen Paper Recycling located in Fort Worth, Texas, was using a typical two-ram baler to bale approximately 5,000 to 6,000 tons per month of recyclable paper. This process required six days each week using two shifts. In an effort to...

Keeping an eye on safety.(Sonoco recycling facility impressed with features of Macpresse 111AS baler)
October 1, 2004... Sonoco's paper recycling facility in Columbia, S.C., purchased a single-ram Macpresse 111AS.1 baler in June of 2003 to replace one of the facility's two-ram balers as an experiment. Grady Weaver of Sonoco says the Macpresse baler's reputation...

It keeps making money!(Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc.'s usage of Macpresse Mac 110 baler)
October 1, 2004... Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc. is a Toronto-based company that installed a Macpresse Mac 110 baler at its Scarborough facility in Toronto in 1988. Metro moved the baler to the Rochester, N.Y., transfer station that it operates in 2003. The...

Mixed opportunities: Athens-Clarke County's pay-as-you-throw program provides an incentive to recycle mixed paper.
October 1, 2004... Athens-Clarke County is the third city-county in the state of Georgia to unify. We used to have a county landfill and the city Sanitation Department. When the counties unified back in 1991, we came together and started working toward the...

Retrenched and ready? The painful retrenchment in the paper industry could turn into the long-awaited turnaround.
October 1, 2004... Over the past several years the North American paper and paperboard industry has suffered significant problems. Market overcapacity for many grades, notably newsprint and containerboard, has resulted in some companies taking machines off line,...

By the numbers: An AF&PA report shows the growth of paper recycling since 1991.(American Forest & Paper Association)
October 1, 2004... The decade of the 1990s may be recalled by some as the decade everyone logged on to the Internet, but paper recyclers can remember it for another reason. A compilation of statistics organized by the American Forest & Paper Association...

Bond issues: the Internal Revenue Service is mulling the possibility of providing recyclers with better access to tax exempt financing. However, the current wording is fairly murky.(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Generally, interest on a state or local bond is excluded from gross income under section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code. However, section 103(b) provides that the exclusion does not apply to a private-activity bond unless it is a qualified...

Green with envy: Germany's Green Dot program continues generating good collection numbers.(Municipal Recycling Update)(Company Profile)
October 1, 2004... Since its inception in Germany in 1990, the Duales System Deutschland AG--comprised of nearly 600 companies representing the retail, consumer goods and packaging industries, as well as materials suppliers--and its Green Dot program have led to...

Running like clockwork: routing software can help recyclers choose the best path for pickups.
October 1, 2004... Routing software can be an important tool for maximizing logistics efficiently. Following the optimal sequence of stops helps to minimize transport time or distance traveled, which in turn reduces transportation costs. Several types of...

A new kind of software company.(automation and customization)
October 1, 2004... From experience comes knowledge. For scrap recyclers looking for software customized for their industry, the story of George and David Kane and their creation of 21st Century Programming provides the comfort of knowing these two California...

The distant future: an electronics recycler ponders which factors will shape the future of this emerging recycling segment.
October 1, 2004... I was sitting at home with a deep, penetrating look on my face, apparently much the same look as when I am dissecting the latest issue of VeloNews or Bicycling Magazine. Seeming intensely focused and preparing for my next ride or equipment...

Making the transition: Toshiba outlines its transition to lead-free manufacturing for its line of semiconductor products.
October 1, 2004... As part of a commitment to respond to customer requirements for lead-free electronic components, Toshiba Corp., the parent company of Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC), is implementing new manufacturing procedures to support the...

Wild setting: Texas Disposal Services ventures into the wild to ensure neighborly cooperation.(Company Profile)(Company Profile)
October 1, 2004... Recyclers can, understandably, choose to see area residents who voice misgivings or opposition to their new business locations as adversaries. One solid waste and recycling company in central Texas has tried a new approach. In preparation...

Looking for diversion: the National Recycling Coalitions Annual Congress served up a vast menu of topics in the city known both for its scenic views and its recycling program.(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Attendees of the National Recycling Coalition's (NRC) 23rd Annual Congress and Exposition descended on San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center in late August. The city, known for its progressive approach to recycling and conservation,...

Schupan & Sons Inc.(People)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Schupan & Sons Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich., has added Ron Morrison as the new business development manager for its industrial recycling division. Morrison will develop marketing programs and manage regional sales organization throughout the...

Independent Recycling Services.(People)(The Jucha family)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Jucha family has created Independent Recycling Services, a Pittsburgh-based company that will concentrate on scrap paper brokerage. George Jucha Sr. and Antoinette Jucha have been involved with the paper recycling industry for more than...

Schnitzer Steel Industries.(People)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Terry Glucoft has resigned as vice president of domestic sales and marketing for metals recycling for Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., Portland, Ore. Glucoft was a 20-year employee of Schnitzer, with almost 40 years of experience in the...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... OCT. 14-16 ISRI Paper Stock Industries Chapter Meeting, Naples, Fla., ISRI PSI Chapter, (561) 627-9191 OCT. 19-20 E-Scrap Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., Resource Recycling, (503) 233-1305 or sarah@resource-recycling.com OCT,...

SSI Pri-Max PR-590SD.(Products)
October 1, 2004... * A 9-foot-long version of the PR-560SD single-shaft primary reducer * Larger process area reduces bridging of large, flat objects * Capacity ranges from 5 to 20 tons per hour * Suitable for densifying C&D debris, furniture,...

Linde H-series IC lift trucks.(Products)
October 1, 2004... * The H 16 to H-25 range of cushion-tire trucks is engineered for demanding three-shift warehousing environments * Capacities from 3,000 to 5,500 pounds * Equipped with hydrostatic drive technology that eliminates high-wear components...

Rigby linear scrap shears.(Products)
October 1, 2004... * Designed especially for processing linear scrap, such as ACSR cable, wire, tubing, baling wire, banding, bar stock, slitter scrap and scarf * Five models available, ranging from the table-top RS1 to a heavy RS-25HD, capable of handling...

CAT 950G Series II wheel loader.(Products)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... * Available in a waste handling arrangement for reliable operation in scrap and waste handling operations * Delivers high productivity, low operating costs with a new fuel-efficient, low-emissions engine * Features a trash-resistant...

Bottled up.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... In 1962 Alcoa and the Pittsburgh Brewing Company joined together to develop the first pull-top aluminum can, which revolutionized the beer and soft drink industries. Now, Alcoa has announced another beverage industry packaging innovation with...

The art of recycling.(Back Page)(Ellice Recycle Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... For many companies recycling is simply business. In Victoria, British Columbia, Ellice Recycle Ltd. has made it an art form. Ellice Recycle, a full-service recycling plant serving residential and commercial customers, has commissioned local...

Elephant ears and ecology.(Back Page)(Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Attendees of the Ohio State Fair in August were offered the opportunity to recycle their bottles, cans and dry paper for the first time in the history of the fair. The recycling program will continue at future fairgrounds events, with visitors...