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The December ferrous scrap market resulted in higher pricing for the second consecutive month! Unfortunately, the December trade represents only the fourth time that ferrous scrap prices logged positive gains during 2019. To put things into perspective, even with two consecutive months of price gains to end 2019, AMM Chicago Shred is still down $88/ton...

Almost 500 comments were received and reviewed by the R2 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), many of which, have been incorporated into the next draft that was posted on the SERI website. A “red-line” version of R2v3 has also been posted to show the changes from the first draft to the second draft of R2v3. The R2 Equipment...

ISRI Specs Promote Trade, Provide Common Language for Global Recycling Community (Washington, DC) – Each year over $100 billion of recycled scrap commodities are traded in the U.S. and around the globe – including paper, plastics, steel, copper, and aluminum, as well as glass, tires, and electronics. For the past century, the Institute of Scrap...

On November 26, ReMA hosted a webinar that reviewed where our economy has been and what we can expect in 2020. The information ReMA Chief Economist Joe Pickard mentioned was very interesting and informative. If you weren’t able to participate, it has been posted to our archive where you can view it at your convenience....

 On October 16, 2019, ISRI’s Paper Division met in Portland, Oregon and unanimously approved a motion to amend Grade No. 52 to include both “liquid or dry” containers. The specification currently reads as follows: “(52) Aseptic Packaging and Gable-Top Cartons Consists of liquid packaging board containers including empty, used, polyethylene (PE)-coated, printed one-side aseptic and...