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The SERI/R2 Technical Advisory Committee met in Austin, Texas for two days to work through the nearly 500 comments about the proposed changes to the R2 standard.  The standard now goes back out for public comments on the changes made during these meetings.  This is the second public comment period following the release of the...

Incident Date: 05/30/2019 Incident Description:  A shopping cart was brought in as scrap.  It was possibility a newer type that had a feature built into the wheels that had batteries in it of some kind.  These batteries caused a small fire that posed no risk but could have had major consequences had that cart made it...

Arlington, VA – In an effort to help consumers recycle properly, the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA), along with the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), produced the Think Twice poster. “The economics of recycling are changing. As our members...

In New York, most-actively traded COMEX copper futures were little changed around $2.63 per pound early this morning while NYMEX crude oil futures dipped to around $52 per barrel. Reuters reports that “Iran’s oil minister is scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart in Iran later on Monday, industry sources said, raising hopes of progress in...

In addition, the European Central Bank “…holds its annual forum in Sintra, Portugal — for investors, a must-watch powwow among central bankers, academics, and economists on ‘monetary policy issues,’” the Financial Times reports. (Editor’s note: if you haven’t been to Sintra, Portugal, you should really go.) On the U.S. economic calendar, aside from the Fed...