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Inventor, leader, visionary receives Lifetime Achievement Award (Las Vegas, NV) – The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling IndustryTM, today recognized industry leader Sam Proler of Proler Steel with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Proler’s ingenuity and innovation led to the invention of the automobile shredder, a development that changed the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2018 Sara Swanson Marketing Coordinator 1-800-GO-SWANA (467-9262), [email protected] Mark Carpenter Senior Director of Communications (202) 662-8525, [email protected] Inaugural MRF Summit to Address Changing Landscape in Recycling SWANA and ReMA join forces for event at WASTECON® The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries...

Fourteen states finished their legislative sessions in March, and 11 more will adjourn before the end of April. ReMA is already tracking more than 840 bills and regulations that could impact the recycling industry, and last-minute substitute amendments could pull the industry into completely unrelated legislation as policymakers fight to get their proposals passed. Why...

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 allows for such reviews. Although the President intended for a swift result, an imbedded process for public comment and consultation meant that the final report took longer. On March 8, President Trump announced that the result of the Section 232 investigation will lead to an imposition...

…of particular note, the plan proposed to abolish the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the entity responsible for the scrap import regulations …in its place, the Ministry of Ecological Environment (MEE) will be created as a “super ministry,” …China watchers believe that the MEE could be granted extraordinary powers over environmental management …this would certainly...