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On Jan. 25, six U.S. senators took the issue of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging to some of the largest e-commerce companies in America. Sens. Rick J. Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Richard Blumental (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Home Depot, Target, Wayfair, Best...

St. Louis-based metals recycler Alter Trading Corp. has partnered with Toyota Tsusho America to form Altech Recycling, a dedicated metals separation plant that will process primarily aluminum, post-shredder mixed metals—known as Zorba—into two main products: Twitch, or floated fragmentizer aluminum scrap, and a secondary product known as heavies. Altech will start by processing between 40,000...

Alton Schaubhut has been in the recycling industry his entire adult life. After landing a summer job at a scrapyard in New Orleans his uncle managed, Schaubhut spent a few years working for a privately-owned company in the city. Since 1995, he’s been at Commercial Metals Company, a publicly-traded steel company, and currently serves as...

Designing ISRI2021 Your Way: The Biggest Industry Event of the Year My father, Stanton, and I have been around ISRI since the beginning. Over the years, I’ve been to countless conventions. My father had the honor of chairing the Convention Committee and I have chaired successful conventions as well. ISRI puts on the largest and...

ISRI’s virtual winter meetings wrapped up Friday with the Finance Committee discussing year-end financials and future budgetary strategy and with the Board of Directors approving motions that had been discussed in committees throughout the week. Here are the final updates from ISRI’s winter meeting: Finance Committee meeting members and ISRI President Robin Wiener walked through...