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Remember when your kids were three years old? Remember how they found a way to get into everything? How about the guards on your shears, conveyors, balers and everything else—will your machine guards keep a three year old out? Read More & Download Handouts/Sign-In Sheets

How well do you know some of the rules regarding hours of service for drivers? Take the attached quiz to find out! Read More & Download Handouts/Sign-In Sheets

(Washington, DC) – The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and Earth911 today released the results of an online poll illustrating the reasons for confusion over plastics recycling and the need for municipalities to better educate consumers on how to treat recyclables. The results indicate that 65 percent of people do not understand what is...

ISRI joined a coalition of more than 800 companies and associations in late June in writing to Congress in support of reauthorizing the Export/Import Bank – a lending agency established under a 1934 executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt as part of his desire to expand trade with the newly established Soviet Union and Cuba....

Thorn-Aluminum Breakage spec added  (Washington, DC) –  The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced today a new nonferrous specification has been published in the Scrap Specifications Circular 2014.  Approved by the ReMA nonferrous division and board of directors, the new specification states that, “Thorn—Aluminum Breakage shall consist of alu­minum with miscel­laneous contaminants like iron,...