As part of the reception Mr. Bagaria organized a “Town Hall” on the environment to discuss with the elected leaders recycling and its needs, especially from a plastics perspective. During the “Town Hall” ninth-grader Sarah Gupta stood before the audience of adults and announced that she had written a poem for the occasion. With great…
Based on an unofficial English translation summary we later obtained, the regulations are worrisome for the following reasons: Only direct shipments will be allowed, defined as direct from the United States (or other supplier country) to Indonesia, i.e., no transshipment via Singapore, for example. The exporter must be listed on documentation so that the exporter…
On November 8, Brady Mills, ISRI’s Director of Law Enforcement Outreach, was joined by ReMA member Eric Zwilsky of Potomac Metals, and ReMA Law Enforcement Advisory Council (LEAC) member Rick Arrington, in presenting a metals theft workshop at the Virginia State Police (VSP) Academy in Richmond. The request to provide instruction during the 2019 Crime…
Since state legislators are increasingly moving towards EPR programs, recyclers must determine how they wish to respond. EPR legislation has often been introduced in past sessions, but rarely had any significant backing; the near-passage of several bills this year highlights that this is no longer the case. Headline-grabbing stories painting recycling as “broken” have convinced…
In April, ReMA tested and met with the Surface Transportation Board to explain the damage these demurrage charges were having on the scrap recycling industry. ReMA also pointed out that the railroads were actually causing most of the service disruptions through their unreliable service then passing along demurrage charges to their customers for their service…
The venue also serves as a perfect stage for ReMA to bring recycling to life before those policymakers who define our industry and enact the laws that govern how the industry operates. With record-breaking numbers in attendance at the Nashville Summit this year, thousands of attendees met the ReMA message that Recyclers Power America. There…
The Board proposed a policy statement clarifying the principles it would consider in evaluating the reasonableness of demurrage and accessorial rules and charges, a rule imposing minimum demurrage billing requirements, and a rule that applies demurrage regulation to most exempt transportation. It seeks comments on the proposed policy statement and rules by November 6, 2019…
ISRI also organized one of the main sessions focusing on international trade, markets and commodities, and transportation issues featuring ISRI’s Joe Pickard and Adina Renee Adler, and Jason Tutrone of Thompson Hine – a law firm that specializes in transportation issues. The E-Scrap Conference brings together E-Scrap processors, brokers, equipment manufacturers as well as electronics…
Each year, ReMA releases its annual Scrap Yearbook in advance of America Recycles Day and presents a briefing for Congressional staff and others to learn how the recycling industry faired over the past year. In this briefing, ReMA provides the most up-to-date figures on the industry and its impacts on the economy and the environment….
Congressman Shimkus is the current Caucus co-chair and the Ranking Member of the Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy. Mr. Shimkus has been a true leader for recycling and has helped advance recycling through Congressional briefings, hearings, proclamations, etc. He will be missed when he retires at the end of…
Among other things, membership is contingent upon a nation’s “commit[ment] to the values of democracy based on the rule of law and human rights, and adherence to open and transparent market-economy principles,” according to the OECD’s vision statement. That includes, among many measurements, the capacity and infrastructure for proper and responsible waste management, resource productivity,…
The new rule will raise the annual salary level at which companies will have to pay overtime to exempt workers from $23,660 to $35,568. Workers earning less than that amount annually will be paid time and a half for working over 40 hours per week. The initial overtime rule proposed by the Obama administration would…