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Greater scrutiny will likely necessitate greater awareness of the potential impacts of recycling operations to neighboring communities and implementation of more environmental controls to reduce potential off-site impacts. In recent months, the U.S. EPA released to the public several items related to its efforts on environmental justice, as directed by Presidential Executive Order 12898, as...

The past year saw minimum wage activity across all planes of American government, included the states and local government. This is an issue of concern to scrap recyclers particularly in at a time that their industry is particularly economically pressed. The 2016 state legislative sessions saw substantial increases in state and local activity surrounding the...

While bills in most states will not carry over to the 2017 session, legislators can often bring bills back during a special session. You can find summaries below of a few of the bills that passed and are pending that impact recyclers; however, that list is not exhaustive. To learn more about these and other...

The Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) Roundtable brought together key stakeholders from around the world to develop ISO Guidance Principles to “promote social equity, environmental justice, and the optimal recovery of metals in the sustainable management of secondary metals worldwide, for present and future generations.” The aim of the Guidance Principles is to provide a credible...

(Washington, DC) – In a letter this week to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and U.S. Mint Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson, Institute of Scrap Recycling industries (ISRI) President Robin Wiener requested that the U.S. Mint reconsider the current blanket moratorium on the repurchase of mutilated coins and requested an opportunity to meet with the...