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Entries for the 2021 Transportation Safety Awards and the Circle of Safety Excellence™ (COSE) Occupational Awards are now open, ISRI announced on Feb. 18. The Transportation Awards recognize those in the transportation field with a superior record of safety. The COSE Occupational Awards recognize COSE member companies that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to their employees’ safety by instilling core...

Team Portables, a Seattle-based group partnering to address the need for increased lithium-ion battery recycling, received $357,000 from the Department of Energy (DoE) to continue its recycling incentivization program. The consortium—comprised of digital transparency company Everledger, smartphone producer Fairphone, technology company HP, and battery recycling organization Call2Recycle—will use the funding to further develop a prototype...

Crawford Carpenter, a longtime active participant in the recycling industry, received ISRI’s Lifetime Achievement Award at ISRI2017 for his years of dedication and hard work. After entering the paperboard packaging industry as an internal auditor in the early 1970s, Crawford eventually became very involved with ISRI after joining The Newark Group. He was instrumental in...

Atlanta-based battery recycling organization Call2Recycle collected and recycled 8.4 million pounds of batteries throughout the United States last year, it says—an 11% increase from 2019. The number is a record for Call2Recycle, beating 2017, its previous year of record collections, when the organization recycled 8 million pounds in the United States. Call2Recycle announced its milestone...

Novelis, an aluminum rolling and recycling company based in Atlanta, debuted a new automotive aluminum alloy, Novelis Advanz 7UHS-s701, the company announced on Feb. 17. The company describes this new material as its “strongest automotive aluminum product to date,” according to the release. Novelis designed this ultra-high-strength material for safety-critical structural applications in passenger vehicles,...