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Steel manufacturers ArcelorMittal, based in Luxembourg City, and Nippon Steel Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, have signed a 50/50 joint-venture agreement to build an electric-arc furnace at their plant, AM/NS Calvert, in Calvert, Ala. The project will cost $775 million and will allow the plant to produce 1.5 million mt of steel slabs, ArcelorMittal says. Construction...

China has begun to implement its new regulations for iron and steel scrap imports, effective Jan. 1. The policy recognizes that “recycled iron and steel raw materials” (GB/T39733-2020) are not solid waste and may be freely imported. Exporters of iron and steel scrap to China should make sure that the material complies with the standard...

Update Jan. 26, 2021: The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced a delay in the effective date of the Aluminum Import Monitoring and Analysis System from Jan. 25 to March 29. Licenses will no longer be required for covered aluminum product imports beginning on Jan. 25, as was previously stated in the final rule. Unless...

On Jan. 1, 2021, the Basel Convention treaty entered new policy territory as it began explicitly regulating the international trade of nonhazardous scrap plastics. The BC-14/12 decision, which was adopted at the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in May 2019 and will amend several of the Convention’s annexes, has significant implications for recyclers—even...

While 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of the pandemic, it was also historic in many positive ways for the recycling industry. First and foremost, due the Coronavirus outbreak, the federal government and states across the country, officially recognized the industry as essential. It marked one of the most important victories in the...