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As part of the reception Mr. Bagaria organized a “Town Hall” on the environment to discuss with the elected leaders recycling and its needs, especially from a plastics perspective. During the “Town Hall” ninth-grader Sarah Gupta stood before the audience of adults and announced that she had written a poem for the occasion. With great...

Based on an unofficial English translation summary we later obtained, the regulations are worrisome for the following reasons: Only direct shipments will be allowed, defined as direct from the United States (or other supplier country) to Indonesia, i.e., no transshipment via Singapore, for example. The exporter must be listed on documentation so that the exporter...

On November 8, Brady Mills, ISRI’s Director of Law Enforcement Outreach, was joined by ReMA member Eric Zwilsky of Potomac Metals, and ReMA Law Enforcement Advisory Council (LEAC) member Rick Arrington, in presenting a metals theft workshop at the Virginia State Police (VSP) Academy in Richmond. The request to provide instruction during the 2019 Crime...

Since state legislators are increasingly moving towards EPR programs, recyclers must determine how they wish to respond. EPR legislation has often been introduced in past sessions, but rarely had any significant backing; the near-passage of several bills this year highlights that this is no longer the case. Headline-grabbing stories painting recycling as “broken” have convinced...

In April, ReMA tested and met with the Surface Transportation Board to explain the damage these demurrage charges were having on the scrap recycling industry. ReMA also pointed out that the railroads were actually causing most of the service disruptions through their unreliable service then passing along demurrage charges to their customers for their service...