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Each year, ReMA releases its annual Scrap Yearbook in advance of America Recycles Day and presents a briefing for Congressional staff and others to learn how the recycling industry faired over the past year. In this briefing, ReMA provides the most up-to-date figures on the industry and its impacts on the economy and the environment....

Congressman Shimkus is the current Caucus co-chair and the Ranking Member of the Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy. Mr. Shimkus has been a true leader for recycling and has helped advance recycling through Congressional briefings, hearings, proclamations, etc. He will be missed when he retires at the end of...

Among other things, membership is contingent upon a nation’s “commit[ment] to the values of democracy based on the rule of law and human rights, and adherence to open and transparent market-economy principles,” according to the OECD’s vision statement. That includes, among many measurements, the capacity and infrastructure for proper and responsible waste management, resource productivity,...

The new rule will raise the annual salary level at which companies will have to pay overtime to exempt workers from $23,660 to $35,568. Workers earning less than that amount annually will be paid time and a half for working over 40 hours per week. The initial overtime rule proposed by the Obama administration would...

Packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR), lithium-ion battery requirements, and bag restrictions will all be on the menu in 2020, along with perennial issues such as materials theft. You can keep track of these and other bills and regulations targeting the industry on ISRI’s State Resources and Tracking Pages.    Paper, Plastics, Packaging EPR Looming for...