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On TopicScrap Metals MarketWatchSalvaging MillionsEvents CalendarBusiness BriefsAdvertiser IndexNew Product Showcase AR ClassifiedsFocus SectionEquipment SpotlightA Closer Look

EPA announces next steps onhazardous waste rules. Page A6

Recovered paper in recoveringmarkets. Page B1

Pending bill omits mention ofwoody biomass. Page A8

Plastic flake supply doesn’t meetdemand. Page B3

ARA calls for the rescue ofrecycled car parts . Page A17

In the plastics industry, being greencan make green. Page B7

WHAT’S INSIDE1011182122232424B1B4B6

Last October the bottom fellout of commodity prices andplastic recyclers were stunned.But this is a tough, resilient sec-tor of the recycling industry andthe people in it are adaptive to upand down markets and workingwith lean margins. After all, it’s arelatively young industry – onlyabout 30 years old – and the play-ers have learned from previouseconomic bumps and bruises.

For instance, after a healthy1995, commodity prices nose-dived in 1996 and the lessonswere not forgotten – watchprices and demand closely, avoidburdensome inventories, alwayslook for new customers, evennew markets if necessary, and tryto have orders in hand beforeacquiring new supplies.

“We reached peak prices lastsummer because the crude oilprice was very high and all theplastics made from petroleumproducts were consequently high.Life was good. There wasdemand and always a shortage ofsupply because we did not haveenough recycled plastics to sat-isfy all the domestic and exportdemand. We are returning to2005 price levels when crude oilwas about $50 per barrel, like it ispriced today,” said David Cor-nell, technical director for theAssociation of Post-ConsumerPlastic Recyclers.

Since late last year, plasticrecyclers have been slowly claw-ing their way back. There mayhave been some unexpected“winter vacations” for manage-ment and labor, but the businessis reviving. It is nowhere near the

peak levels of last summer, butgetting back to a sustainable busi-ness model.

Steve Anderson, a partner atAPC Recycling in Killingworth,Connecticut reminisced abouthis bleak winter. “November,December and January were theroughest three months in the 20years I’ve been in the business. After that, it started to slowlypick up. We move a lot to Chinaand exports to there have pickedup, not at a level that it was lastsummer, but it has stabilized andis moving pretty steadily. Iwouldn’t say domestic sales areflat. We can still move product,but the demand is certainly notrobust. Some of the grades thathave normally picked up at thistime of year are still fairly lowand hard to move.”

Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) administrator LisaP. Jackson released EPA’s fiscalyear 2010 budget blueprint.

Expanding on the investmentsof the American Recovery andReinvestment Act, this $10.5 bil-lion budget allows EPA to providesolutions to our economic crisis. Itsignificantly improves accountabil-ity and transparency, ensuring fis-cal responsibility at a time whenevery dollar counts.

“EPA’s new budget reflects thePresident’s commitment to grow-ing a clean energy economy whileprotecting human health and theenvironment,” said administratorJackson.

Budget highlights include:Maintaining and improving

clean water infrastructure: Tomaintain and improve outdatedwater infrastructure and keepwastewater and drinking waterclean and safe, EPA has budgeted$3.9 billion. The funding will sup-port efforts around the country tobuild and renovate an estimated

Recycled plasticsmarkets stabilizing

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Recovered paper inrecovering markets

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Shoreline Transfer and Recy-cling Station, located in KingCounty, Washington, was re-opened in early 2008 following aground-up redevelopment and fea-tures numerous environmentally-sustainable attributes. It was cho-sen as a Public Works Project ofthe Year for 2009 by the AmericanPublic Works Association.

The award honors excellencein public works projects and rec-ognizes the alliance between man-aging agencies and the innovativeminds that create and implementthese projects.

The features that earned theplatinum rating include:

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APC ranks among the top 100 plasticsrecyclers in North America and processesand markets between five to seven millionpounds a month. “Exports were absolutelydead the first two or three weeks of January.It picked up a little towards the end of themonth. In February, exports started to warmup and in March it picked up pretty signifi-cantly, and it’s continued picking up inApril,” said Anderson.

Late last fall, the crushing blow topost-consumer plastics came from the dropin orders from China. In fact, demand evap-orated with boatloads of recycled materialsstalled in Asian harbors. Polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) is a good example: Upuntil the fall of 2008, the United States hadbeen exporting 500 to 700 million poundsof PET annually to China. PET is one of thelargest and most commonly recycled plas-tics used in food grade packaging such asfor water and beverage bottles. The collec-tion and processing rate for 2007 in theUnited States (most recent available) was1.4 billion pounds of PET. Approximately 1billion pounds of PET is recycled domesti-cally, the balance is exported, most allgoing to China. When China stopped buy-ing, the surplus increased.

At the same time, curbside collectioncontinued at more or less the same volumeand delivered material to material recyclingfacilities (MRFs). For the 480 MRFs, thetrucks kept coming in and inventories keptgrowing larger. Without ready markets tomove the material, there were only twochoices: store it or shut down. A few MRFshad to shut down, but most survived – manybecause they operate under municipalfinancing. MRFs either dumped inventory

at a loss, or stored the material, waiting fordemand and prices to recover. On the posi-tive side, unlike paper and cardboard, baledplastics can be stored outdoors to avoidwarehousing costs.

David Cornell explained the ramifica-tions: “People were warehousing the mate-rial. The question was where in the line doyou store it? It’s worth money, now and inthe future. The difference between thefuture value and the price paid was the car-rying costs to store the stuff.”

Reclaimers and brokers like APCRecycling were hit hard by inventoriesbacked up in the supply chain, but hadmuch greater flexibility than MRFs to man-age it. APC acquires material from profes-sional recyclers that bale products, fromdistribution centers and from manufacturersgenerating industrial scrap. The companypicks up polyethylene, polypropylene,polyolefin and other scrap plastics from all

over the country, but concentrates in thenortheastern market. APC brings mostmaterial into its grinding facilities in Con-necticut, but also brokers exports throughVancouver to China. About 25 percent ofAPC’s business is brokered for export anddoes not come through its facilities. “Evenif it’s close financially to bring it here, weprefer to do so to check and assure qualityand take the proper pictures for export,”said Anderson.

Like many processors these days,Anderson is extremely cautious aboutinventory. “Right now I don’t allow any ofour people to buy anything for inventoryunless it’s already pre-sold. We don’t spec-ulate. Unless we have orders in-hand wedon’t buy. I’m not going to get stuck with awarehouse of goods if things fall off a clifflike late last year.” This seems to be a pre-vailing attitude among processors. Back inthe days of strong demand and peak prices,

processors would gamble that they couldwarehouse today and sell tomorrow. Thesedays, caution is the byword for inventory.

Post-consumer processors are alsobuying at much lower prices. Even thoughthey add value through consolidation,shredding, grinding, pulverizing, fine sepa-ration, pelletization and quality assurance,it’s essentially a buy-low sell-high business.

Post-industrial recyclers like NicosPolymers Group of Nazareth, Pennsylvaniahave been affected by the economic down-turn, but are nevertheless optimistic aboutthe future. Nicos is among the top tenUnited States recyclers and processes 90 to100 million pounds annually. In addition togeneral purpose processing and sales ofpolymers, Nicos does toll processing forlarge manufacturers. Kevin Cronin, CEO ofNicos put it this way, “The trading and sell-ing part of our business slowed significantlyin November and December, but we seeniches of recovery and they tend to be verymaterial-specific.” Nicos is seeing relativelygood demand for packaging materials suchas clear PVC, polyester and PET. “We alsosee some strengthening in demand for somegrades of high-density polyethylene as wellas some higher strength materials such ashigh impact polystyrene. Some specificapplications requiring those materials seemto be showing early signs of a comebackbut there is a long way to go yet.”

Nicos’ toll processing for large manu-facturers has not dropped off as dramati-cally as the buy-sell side of its business, butit has fallen off simply because manufactur-ers are producing less. “Overall, since lastfall our business has fallen off approxi-mately 15 percent in volume, but of coursefrom a revenue standpoint it’s more becauseon the buy-sell side we deal significantlywith commodities,” said Cronin.

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RecycleMania resultsfor 2009 are released

Every spring, students across thecountry become RecycleManiacs, com-peting for national supremacy to deter-mine which school can reduce, reuseand recycle the most campus waste.

RecycleMania wrapped up its 2009college recycling contest in late March,with over 69.4 million pounds of recy-clables and organics recovered from 510colleges and universities across thecountry.

“RecycleMania’s success comesfrom its ability to use competitive spiritand campus rivalries to motivate stu-dents who are less likely to respond to‘save the earth’ kinds of messages,”according to Stacy Wheeler, professor atthe University of North Florida and co-founder of the RecycleMania competi-tion.

The spirit of friendly competitionsparked huge environmental gains. Thetotal amount of recyclables and organicmaterials recovered during the 2009competition added up to 69.4 millionpounds, which in turn prevented therelease of 88,739 metric tons of carbondioxide equivalent (MTCO2E). In realworld terms, this reduction in green-house gases is equivalent to the annualemissions from 16,187 passenger cars;electricity use of 12,258 homes; orburning of 462 railcars’ worth of coal.

Colleges and universities chose toparticipate in one of two divisions, eitherthe Competition or Benchmark. The Com-petition Division houses the traditionalcompetitive rankings based on standardtracking and reporting criteria.

The Benchmark Division allowsschools to unofficially compare them-selves with others and to promote Recy-cleMania on campus without the formalreporting requirements of the competitiveranking.

Within each division, schools par-ticipate in any of eight categories,including the “Grand Champion,” whichmeasures recycling as a percentage ofthe total waste generation; the “PerCapita Classic,” which measures thelargest amount of combined recyclablesper person; the “Waste Minimization”competition, which tracks the lowestamount of waste per person; and the“Gorilla” Prize, which acknowledges theschools with the highest total combinedrecycling weights. In addition to thesemain categories, schools also compete intargeted material categories on a percapita basis.

The “Grand Champion” top threefinalists, determined by the percentageof overall waste that is recycled over tenweeks, are:

•California State University, SanMarcos (78.09 percent) – San Marcos,California.

•Franklin W. Olin College of Engi-neering (64.22 percent) – Needham,Massachusetts.

•New Mexico State University(64.02 percent) – Las Cruces, NewMexico.

To see the “Per Capita Classic” finalistsand a complete list of all the winners,

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1,000 clean water and 700 drinkingwater infrastructure projects, supportgreen infrastructure and create thou-sands of technical and construction jobs.Funding will also be available to helpcommunities repair and upgrade theaging network of drinking water andwastewater pipes that are overwhelmedand breaking down.

The budget includes a $475 millionmulti-agency Great Lakes Initiative to pro-tect and clean up the largest fresh waterlakes in the world through restorationefforts, invasive species control, non-pointsource pollution mitigation and criticalhabitats protection. The budget alsoincludes funding for crucial efforts to pro-tect, maintain, and restore the ChesapeakeBay and Anacostia River, Puget Sound,San Francisco Bay, Lake Champlain andother large waterbodies.

Addressing climate change: Toaddress the growing threat of climatechange, EPA will make key investments inthe greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionsinventory. That involves new analyticaltools, upgraded testing capabilities, and

coordination with other agencies onresearch and green initiatives.

EPA’s $17 million GHG registryinvestment will include data reporting andimplementation efforts, data managementsystems, guidance and materials for theregulated community and source measure-ment technologies. The budget alsoincludes an additional $2 million for EPAto continue to reduce its own GHG emis-sions by 3 percent each year.

Managing resources efficiently: Thebudget reflects concerns of accountability.The President, the Congress, and mostimportantly, the people, demand that thefederal government manage its resourcesresponsibly. EPA will increase funding forthe Inspector General’s office to monitorpublic dollars entrusted to the agency.

Restoring communities: The EPAbudget is investing in hazardous wastecleanups like Superfund and Brownfieldsprograms that employ thousands of peopleacross the country and restore propertiesfor economic use.

$1.3 billion will go to increase thenumber of hazardous waste sites readyfor anticipated use and fund ongoing sitecleanups. The budget proposes to restorethe Superfund tax known as the “polluterpays” policy, which expired in 1995, to

fund future clean-up efforts. Beginningin 2011, the Superfund tax is estimatedto generate $1 billion of revenue a year,rising to $2 billion a year by 2019.

The budget proposes $175 millionfor the Brownfields program, which willprovide additional assessment, clean-up,and job-training grants. The budget alsocontains $128 million for the LeakingUnderground Storage Tank and Under-ground Storage Tank programs and$18 million for the Oil Spill Responseprogram.

Managing chemical risks: A total of$55 million will go to an enhanced tox-ics program to screen, assess and reducechemical risks. Funding will be investedin monitoring air toxics at schools and toprovide technical assistance and coordi-nation with states and local communi-ties. Other major investments includefunding for continued efforts to reducelead exposure and grants to states, tribes,and other partners to promote workersafety, protection of water sources andendangered species from pesticideexposure.

Reinforcing scientific integrity:This budget supports rigorous, peer-reviewed scientific analyses with $842million for science and technology. Thebudget also proposes additional fundingfor water sustainability to assess,develop and compile scientifically rigor-ous tools and models that will helpadvance the deployment of green waterinfrastructure.

Protecting communities: Approxi-mately $600 million will go to the EPA’sEnforcement and Compliance Assuranceprogram. It includes an increase ofnearly 30 additional enforcement staffand will enhance efforts to integrateenvironmental justice considerations inEPA programs and policies. It will alsoaid in the work to fulfill environmentalrequirements with respect to other fed-eral agencies’ recovery act projects.

Strengthening partnerships: Jacksonemphasized that states, localities and tribesare the front line in many environmentalprograms, as they implement major por-tions of almost all EPA programs. Thebudget includes $1.1 billion for categoricalgrants to states and tribes.

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Blue Rhino has introduced the RhinoRecycle Program – a solution for theunwanted gas grill propane tanks that aredropped off at recycle and disposal centersacross the country. It is an economical andecologically-friendly program designed torecycle and refurbish the tanks.

The program alleviates the need forcollection sites to dispose of gas grillpropane tanks on their own. From coast tocoast, the program has picked up thou-sands of tanks for processing.

Rhino Recycle uses a restorationprocess that prevents tanks from beingstored at landfills and recycle centers andrefurbishes them, extending the usefulproduct life.

This process keeps waste down andminimizes the safety hazards associatedwith storage at individual sites.

Many facilities and landfills face asimilar situation. Often, people drop offempty, unwanted propane tanks becausethey don’t know where else to take them.Recycle and waste disposal organizationsdo not always have appropriate space forstorage discarded propane tanks, and theymay face a per-tank cost to contract com-panies to pick them up and dispose ofthem. Rhino Recycle only requires a smallper-tank fee in some cases, but in mostcases it is free, which can result in signifi-cant savings. Rhino Recycle’s minimumpick up is 36 propane tanks.

Some communities have mobilehousehold hazardous waste drop-offevents where contractors collect items. In2009, Rhino Recycle will be at selectevents nationwide to accept and appropri-ately handle gas grill propane tanks.

Blue Rhino has made the process ofusing the Rhino Recycle program easierwith the development of a three-stepprocess:

1. Collect and store – accept andsafely store gas grill propane tanks thatmeet the Rhino Recycle AcceptanceGuidelines. Minimum quantity of 36 isrequired to schedule a pick-up.

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3. After the scheduled pick-up time,the tanks will be refurbished by shot-blast-ing, repainting and retrofitting outdatedvalves and components, extending the use-ful life of the tank. If the tank does notmeet safety and quality standards, BlueRhino will reclaim any unused propaneand recycle the steel.

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Oregon’s electronics program popular The Oregon E-Cycles Program,

which provides free recycling of com-puters, monitors and televisions through-out the state, is proving popular withOregonians.

First-quarter collection and recy-cling totals show that the programbrought in 4.94 million pounds of elec-tronic waste, said E-Cycles project leadKathy Kiwala of DEQ’s Solid WasteProgram.

The 4.94 million pound figure isahead of projected program goals. OregonE-Cycles’ original projection for minimumtotal returns for 2009 is 12.2 millionpounds. For materials collected in the firstquarter, televisions accounted for 55.7 per-cent of total pounds recycled. Monitorsaccounted for 33.3 percent, and computersaccounted for the remaining 11 percent.

In addition to recycling, 8,938 unitsof televisions, computers or monitorswere diverted for reuse, Kiwala added.

Electronics manufacturers financeOregon E-Cycles, which was launchedon January 1, 2009. Many manufacturerssupport the DEQ-administered state

contractor collection and recycling pro-gram. Three other manufacturer groupsoperate their own collection and recy-cling programs, but all of the programsoperate under the Oregon E-Cyclesumbrella.


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New Jersey companies orderedto halt improper handling of bulbs

In an effort to stop and prevent therelease of hazardous waste, the UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has ordered two New Jersey com-panies to take immediate action to ensurethe safe handling of hazardous waste at afacility in Lakewood, New Jersey.Through an administrative order, EPA isrequiring Supreme Asset Management andRecovery, and Preferred Enterprises to haltthe unsafe processing, storage and transferof fluorescent light bulbs and batteriesclassified as hazardous waste, both ofwhich contain toxic substances includingmercury and lead.

Preferred Enterprises owns the facil-ity at 1950 Rutgers University Boulevardin Lakewood where the improper activitiestook place, and Supreme Asset Manage-ment and Recovery operates it. SupremeComputer and Electronic Recyclers, Inc.,which merged in 2008 with EcoglassRecycling, Inc. to become Supreme AssetManagement and Recovery, Inc., acquireda solid waste facility permit from the NewJersey Department of Environmental Pro-tection (NJDEP). From 2006 through2008, Supreme accepted drums of spent

fluorescent bulbs, and inspections of thefacility found evidence of improper han-dling of crushed fluorescent bulbs, a haz-ardous waste. Supreme was permitted toreceive and store intact spent fluorescentbulbs, but not crushed bulbs. Fluorescentbulbs release mercury when crushed.

In April 2008, NJDEP issuedSupreme a notice of violation for accept-ing the crushed bulbs and for failing toprevent the release of mercury. NJDEPofficials identified several instances duringwhich mercury may have been releasedinto the environment at the facility. EPAinspected the facility in October 2008 andfound that many bulbs had enough mer-cury to be classified as hazardous waste.

In early 2008, Supreme shipped intactbulbs to a facility in Richmond, Virginia tobe crushed there. In May 2008, the Vir-ginia Department of Labor and Industrycited the company for failing to protect itsemployees from exposure to mercury.

During its October 2008 inspection,EPA also found that the companies werestoring 40 pallets of spent lead acid batter-ies, some of which were badly corrodedand leaking, and three containers of spent

lithium batteries outdoors without propercover. The problem persisted, and NJDEPissued Supreme a violation notice after aJanuary 2009 inspection. In February2009, NJDEP took steps to revokeSupreme’s permit to operate a solid wasterecycling business.

As a result of EPA’s order, issuedunder the federal Resource Conservationand Recovery Act, Supreme must stopaccepting crushed fluorescent bulbs thatcontain mercury and move all crushedbulbs to a permitted facility using a carrierlicensed by NJDEP. The company mustalso inventory intact fluorescent bulbs,ensure they are properly stored and iden-tify an acceptable facility that can processor recycle them. Supreme must also storeleaking spent lead acid batteries in a man-ner that will prevent further leaks, clean upprevious leaks, and manage lithium batter-ies in a manner that will prevent fires.Supreme is required to report its progressto EPA.

The companies met with EPA and,while not accepting the accuracy of all ofEPA’s findings, they have agreed to carryout the terms of the order.

Carpet recyclersgranted awards

The Carpet America Recovery Effort(CARE) honored four innovators from thegrowing world of post-consumer carpetrecycling at the organization’s seventhAnnual Conference held in Lansdowne,Virginia.

The recycling group announced win-ners of the EPA/CARE Innovations inRecycling award and the CARE Recyclerof the Year and Person of the Year awards.

Established two years ago, theEPA/CARE award recognizes innovationin a product containing post-consumer car-pet content, or a process that diverts sub-stantial amounts of post-consumer carpetfrom landfills. This year the award isshared by Shaw Industries’ EvergreenNylon Recycling facility and Los AngelesFiber Company and its president RonaldGreitzer.

From the time Shaw began operatingthe Evergreen plant in 2007, the companyhas recycled more than 220 millionpounds of post-consumer Nylon 6 carpetand more than 36 million pounds of post-consumer carpet filler. In addition, signifi-cant fossil fuel usage was avoided throughthe plant’s waste-to-energy processing.

Ron Greitzer has over a decade ofinvolvement in carpet recycling. Since2000, his Los Angeles Fiber Company hasrecycled more than 464 million pounds ofpost-consumer carpet, amounting to morethan 40 percent of the accumulatedpoundage of recycled carpet reported byCARE since it began collecting data in2002. Without Greitzer’s efforts, CAREwould not have reached their 2007 mile-stone of one billion pounds of post-con-sumer carpet recovered. Greitzer’sReliance Carpet Cushion products aremade entirely of post-consumer carpetfiber, and represent a major potential mar-ket for post-consumer fiber.

As the organization’s Recycler of theYear, CARE recognized Mohawk Indus-tries for its GreenWorks Post- ConsumerRecycling Center, which converts post-consumer carpet into engineered resinsthat can be used in a broad range of valu-able post-consumer products. Mohawkdescribes its GreenWorks system as a“total recycling solution in which NO car-pet component is either discarded to land-fills or is sent to waste incineration.” In2008, the GreenWorks Center, located inChatsworth, Georgia, collected 15 millionpounds of post- consumer carpet for pro-cessing into thermoplastic nylons andother materials. Most engineered resinsales were with Nylon 6,6, but Mohawkalso developed automotive, furniture, andhousewares applications, among others.

For his leadership on the CAREBoard, serving as chairman of variousCARE committees, Brendan McSheehy,Jr., was named CARE Person of the Year.As director of research and developmentfor Universal Fiber Systems, McSheehyhas been actively involved in carpet fiberresearch and recycling since 1993. Apatent-holder for a method of cleaning andseparating post-consumer carpet face yarn,McSheehy was instrumental in the devel-opment of his company’s ReFresh Fiber,which contains post-consumer contentfrom recycled nylon Type 6,6 carpet.

The Institute of Scrap RecyclingIndustries, Inc. (ISRI) honored the furni-ture manufacturer Herman Miller with its2009 Design for Recycling® Award, at cer-emonies held during ISRI’s 2009 Conven-tion and Exposition.

ISRI established the Design for Recy-cling award, to honor a program, companyor individual whose product or programdesign has incorporated one or more of thefollowing:

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EPA announces next steps on hazardous waste rulesEPA announced the next steps on two

hazardous waste rules to respond to con-cerns raised by stakeholders: the Defini-tion of Solid Waste rule and the EmissionComparable Fuels rule.

EPA is planning to hold a publicmeeting to discuss possible revisions tothe Definition of Solid Waste (DSW) rulein response to an administrative petitionasking the agency to reconsider and repealthe rule. The rule became effective onDecember 29, 2008. The meeting isplanned for the end of June, and a FederalRegister notice with the details of themeeting were published in May.

The DSW rule modified the regula-tions for recycling hazardous secondarymaterials to encourage the recycling ofcertain materials to help conserveresources. The rule includes conditionsdesigned to ensure that the recycling ofthe materials is protective of human health

and the environment. The rule also takesinto account a series of opinions in theUnited States Court of Appeals for theD.C. Circuit on the meaning of the term“discard,” which forms the basis of thedefinition of solid waste.

Since publication of the DSW rule,the Sierra Club has raised concernsabout the effectiveness and protective-ness of the rule and has requested EPAstay the rule in an administrative peti-tion. In addition, the Sierra Club and theAmerican Petroleum Institute have filedjudicial petitions for review in the U.S.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.Various industry groups have also filedletters opposing the Sierra Club’s admin-istrative petition.

EPA expects that stakeholders’ inputat the public meeting will assist theagency in deciding whether to makerevisions to the rule and how such revi-

sions would further ensure that the ruleappropriately and safely encouragesresource conservation for those haz-ardous secondary materials that are con-ditionally excluded. The FederalRegister notice announcing the meetingwill raise specific questions for consid-eration, particularly related to reclama-tion that is not under the control of thegenerator. Any revisions to the rulewould be made through the full publicrulemaking process.

EPA is also planning to propose a ruleto withdraw the Emission ComparableFuels (ECF) rule, which became effectiveon January 20, 2009. The proposal willpresent the agency’s concerns and requestcomments from the public after publica-tion in the Federal Register, planned forNovember 2009. After evaluating the pub-lic comments, the EPA will make a deci-sion on whether to repeal the exclusion.

The ECF rule removed regulatorycosts by reclassifying certain manufac-turing byproducts as non-wastes. ECF isfuel that is produced from a hazardouswaste, but which generates emissionswhen burned in an industrial boiler thatare comparable to emissions from burn-ing fuel oil. The materials must also bestored under an elaborate set of require-ments.

The final rule has been criticized forallowing hazardous waste to evade thehazardous waste regulatory system, andalso for being difficult to administer.Industry members have also criticized itbecause of the detailed and prescriptiveconditions for reclassification, whichthey believe will limit the rule’s use.

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Staples given environmentalleadership award by NRC

The National Recycling Coalition(NRC) announced that Staples is the recip-ient of the NRC’s eleventh annual Recy-cling Works Award for its broad-reachingefforts to promote recycling and wastereduction among its customers andthroughout its operations.

The award, presented at NRC’sannual gala, recognized Staples’ leader-ship in providing easy-to-use productrecovery programs and eco-friendly prod-uct choices through its EcoEasy™ initiativemaking it easier for its customers tobecome effective environmental stewards.

“Staples is the first national retailer tooffer an every-day in-store technologyrecycling program. In 2008, Staples col-lected nearly five million pounds of tech-nology waste for responsible recyclingthrough its retail technology recycling pro-gram. The company is also one of theworld’s leading ink recyclers. By accept-ing any brand or type of cartridge andallowing customers to earn $3 back in Sta-ples Rewards for each cartridge recycled,Staples is on track to recycle 50 millioncartridges in 2009.”

ClearStream ClearTainersawarded to increase recycling

The New York State Association forReduction, Reuse, and Recycling, Inc.(NYSAR3), as an administrator of aNew York State Department of Environ-mental Conservation (DEC) Environ-mental Benefit Fund, has invested over$40,000 to boost beverage container col-lection and public space recyclingthroughout the State of New York. Thegrant program will provide at least onethousand ClearStreams to qualifyingyouth and community organizationslocated in nine DEC regions.

According to Jeff Cooper, NYSAR3regional board member, ClearStreamwas selected as the approved container

for the NYSAR3 project because of itsproven record for collecting large vol-umes of recyclable materials with virtu-ally no contamination. Resourceful,manufacturer of ClearStream, has beenproviding products for curbside andaway-from-home recycling since 1990.

NYSAR3 grant applications had tobe postmarked by April 15, 2009. Namesof the sixty-plus public space recyclinggrant recipients were announced as partof NYSAR3’s recognition of Earth Day.

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Suntech to develop solarmodule recycling program

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.announced that it has joined the PVCycle Association which is engaged inestablishing a voluntary take-back andrecycling program for end-of-life PVmodules.

“With over 1.1GW of Suntech solarproducts shipped worldwide since ourinception, we believe it is essential thatSuntech take a proactive role in develop-ing effective recycling programs. We arelooking forward to collaborating withthe PV CYCLE association and furtherdeveloping our internal module recy-

cling initiative,” added Jerry Stokes,Suntech’s vice president of strategy andbusiness development.

PV modules are designed to gener-ate clean, renewable energy for over 25years. With the first significant installa-tions in the early 1990s, full-scale end-of-life recycling is still another 10 to 15years away. Nevertheless, the PVCYCLE association is already develop-ing plans to develop a recycling programthat minimizes waste and maximizes re-use of valuable resources such as glass,silicon and aluminum.

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Cronin is optimistic about recovery.His company just launched a new division,Innovative Sustainability Solutions, thatspecializes in sustainability programs, cra-dle-to-cradle recycling, product life cyclemanagement and landfill avoidance strate-gies. “Increasingly, larger companies arebeginning to focus on sustainability. I dosee our ability to generate new opportuni-ties and revenues based on the focus ofhelping companies reach their sustainabil-ity goals,” said Cronin.

Today, plastic recyclers are workingoff inventories. Export demand is buildingslowly. Domestic demand is down, butseems to have stabilized, especially forrecycled plastics that feed into containers

and packaging found in grocery stores. Nodoubt consumers have moderated spend-ing, but the budget category least likely tobe cut is food and beverage, which reliesheavily on plastic packaging. Recycledplastics that had been going into construc-tion materials and automobile manufactur-ing have been badly affected. Newtechnology developments, however, areworking towards better recovery of mixedstreams of polymers, such as fromscrapped vehicles. Plastic recyclers aregeneralists and can readily adapt to chang-ing market conditions. Wherever a marketis, they follow it.

Despite current market conditions, thefuture for recycled plastics is promising.Recycled plastics are purchased becausethey do a better job for less money thanother materials. Even though the raw mate-

rial stream is diverse and challenging, recy-clers are delivering higher quality productsin greater volumes across a broader rangeof polymers. The growth in electronic recy-cling, for instance is delivering larger,more consistent streams of acrylonitrilebutadiene styrene (ABS) from computerand electronic equipment housings. Elec-tronic equipment manufacturers are lead-ing the way by identifying componentswith stamps on injection molding tools thatexpedites separation and results in morematerial being reclaimed.

Products incorporating recycled plas-tics and identified and promoted that way,also have market appeal in a greeningeconomy as consumers become moreaware of the fact that polymers are infi-nitely recyclable and the last place theyshould go is into landfills. For example,

park benches made of recycled plasticsdemonstrate a concern for the environ-ment, but also delivers a more durableproduct with better value due to reducedmaintenance.

“What is fascinating about this marketcollapse is that unlike financial institutions,recyclers did not go out of business. PETand high-density bottle recyclers are sur-vivors. These are folks that are used to dif-ficult moments and last fall was a reallydifficult moment – not for the weak ofheart,” said Cornell.

“I’m cautiously optimistic as long asthings keep going the way they are going.We had a pretty good first quarter after aterrible January and we’re having a prettygood second quarter,” said Anderson.

It may not the best of times for recy-clers, but it’s not the worst of times either.

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Ball Corporation announced that itwill permanently cease manufacturingoperations at polyethylene terephthalate(PET) bottle plants in Baldwinsville,New York, and Watertown, Wisconsinand supply customers of those plantsfrom larger Ball facilities.

“Baldwinsville and Watertown arethe smallest PET bottle manufacturingplants in our system,” said John A.Hayes, executive vice president andchief operating officer. “With the indus-try slowdown of demand for monolayerPET containers, it is important that wecontinue to focus on ensuring our costbase is competitive.”

The Baldwinsville plant opened in1996 and operates seven productionlines capable of making approximately 1billion bottles annually. It employs 113.The plant is scheduled to cease manufac-turing by July 7.

The Watertown plant operates fourproduction lines with an annual capacityof approximately 250 million bottles andemploys 52. It is scheduled to ceasemanufacturing by June 7.

As a result, an after-tax charge ofapproximately $14 million will berecorded in the company’s second quar-ter results. Cost savings associated withthese actions are expected to be approxi-mately $12 million annually beginningin 2010.

Ball closes PETbottle plants

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Mar-ket has diverted more than 400,000pounds of plastic display trays fromlandfills through the use of a proprietaryultra violet light sanitizing machine.With this technology, the company hasreused more than 2,000,000 plastic dis-play trays, material that may otherwisehave been discarded.

UV Doctor, a company based in LasVegas specializing in UV light technolo-gies, engineered and built this custommachine for Fresh & Easy to sanitize thepackaging used to display products instores. By using UV light technology tosafely disinfect and sanitize its plasticdisplay trays, Fresh & Easy is able tosignificantly reduce its carbon emis-sions, petroleum use and landfill waste.

Resource Management Group(RMG), a San Diego-based waste man-agement and recycling company, workson-site at Fresh & Easy’s Riverside dis-tribution center to recycle and reuse tonsof material collected at stores. RMGsanitizes about 60 plastic display traysper minute using the UV machine.

Fresh & Easydiverts 400,000pounds of plasticfrom landfill

PAPERTotal printing-writing papershipments down in March

According to the American Forest& Paper Association’s March 2009Printing-Writing Paper Report, totalprinting-writing paper shipmentsdecreased 21.9 percent in March com-pared to March 2008. For the year todate, shipments were down 24.0 percent.United States purchases (shipments +imports – exports) of printing-writingpapers dropped 22.8 percent in Marchversus year-ago and declined 24.1 per-cent for the year to date. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels decreased37,100 tons from February.

Contraction of uncoated free sheet(UFS) for shipments slowed for a secondconsecutive month. UFS shipments weredown 8.7 percent compared to March2008, to 850,200 tons. In January, UFSshipments were down 19.6 percent, fol-lowed by a decline of 19.3 percent inFebruary. Because of the earlier strongdeclines, for the year to date UFS ship-ments were 16.0 percent below last year.United States purchases of UFS werealso down, declining 7.9 percent whencompared to March 2008, as importsagain exceeded exports. UFS inventoriesdecreased 2.9 percent compared to lastmonth, a decline of 32,300 tons.

Coated free sheet (CFS) shipmentspost double-digit decline for sixth con-secutive month. CFS shipments droppedby 31.7 percent compared to March2008, to 286,200 tons. For the year to

date, shipments of CFS were down 27.8percent. United States purchases of CFSdecreased 31.1 percent compared to lastMarch. CFS inventories decreased 1.8percent compared to February, a declineof 11,500 tons.

Coated mechanical (CM) shipmentsagain decreased the most in March. CMshipments fell 39.5 percent when com-pared to March 2008, settling in at248,100 tons. Year to date shipments ofCM were down 37.0 percent comparedto last year. United States purchases ofCM were down 39.8 percent comparedto March 2008, and for the year to datewere down 35.4 percent. CM inventoriesincreased 3.2 percent, or 9,500 tons,from last month.

Uncoated mechanical (UM) ship-ments decline for a seventh consecutivemonth after reaching an all-time high inJuly 2008. UM shipments decreased27.5 percent when compared to March2008, to 135,200 tons, and for the yearto date were down 30.6 percent. Afterhitting an all time high in July 2008, UMshipments increased compared to theprior year just one more time in Augustbefore the current pattern of declinebegan. United States purchases of UMwere down 26.4 percent when comparedto March 2008 and were down 26.0 per-cent for the year to date.UM inventoriesincreased 13.4 percent, or 13,200 tons,from February.

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Duke Energy will build between100 and 400 electricity-generating minisolar power plants throughout NorthCarolina over the next two years in oneof the first large-scale initiatives of itskind in the United States according totheir CEO, Jim Rogers.

“Solar and wind are both going tobe key parts of our strategy going for-

ward,” Rogers told reporters followingthe company’s annual meeting.

The North Carolina Utilities Com-mission issued a decision allowingDuke Energy to proceed with its $50million proposal to install solar panelson the roofs and grounds of homes,schools, office buildings, shoppingmalls, warehouses and industrial plants,starting later this year.

Collectively, the solar sites willgenerate enough electricity to power1,300 homes.

The electricity will flow directlyfrom the solar sites to the electrical gridthat serves all customers.

Duke Energy’s solar initiative willbe among the nation’s first and largestdemonstrations of distributed genera-tion, in which electricity is produced atnumerous micro generating sites ratherthan at a large, centralized, traditionalpower plant.

Duke Energy will own and main-tain the solar panels during theirexpected 25-year lifespan. The com-pany also will own the electricity gener-ated.

It will pay a rental fee to propertyowners who host the panels for use oftheir roofs or land, based on the size ofthe installation and amount of electric-ity generated at any given site.

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Despite pending federal legislationthat promotes renewable, clean energyand creates new jobs, people in ruralareas are being denied the promise of agreen economy, according to the Ameri-can Loggers Council (ALC).

Unemployed loggers all over thecountry could have a future in sustain-ably gathering and selling tons of clean-burning woody biomass to power plantswere it not for the fine print in TheAmerican Clean Energy and SecurityAct of 2009 that’s now under considera-tion in the House of Representatives.

The harvesting of woody biomassinvolves collecting stems and woodwaste from the forest or stands of beetle-killed wood – but the Act excludes 60 to70 percent of biomass sources in theUnited States because the biomass liesin federal and certain private forests.

“Woody biomass is not the cuttingdown of old-growth trees,” said ALCexecutive vice president Danny Dructor.“A sustainable biomass industry willkeep our forests healthy and provideclean energy and green jobs.”

While it commends Congress’ com-mitment to renewable energy, the ALCis committed to educating Congressabout the true benefits of woody bio-mass harvesting:

•Reviving small-town economies;•Creating a viable, proven source of

renewable energy;•Reducing the risk of catastrophic

forest fires by removing dead and dyingtrees and the waste that provides firesmuch of their fuel;

•Fighting insects that destroyforests by thinning dense stands andremoving the waste in which pestsbreed.

Throughout the United States, theclosing of mills has devastated small-town economies that once relied on log-ging. In Oregon, 30 percent of loggersare currently unemployed and manyrural communities reliant on forestrynow suffer from almost 20 percentunemployment – more than twice thenational average.

“Here in Minnesota, counting log-gers and spin-off jobs from mills, unem-ployment in our industry’s probably 60percent,” said logger Jerry Birchem, ofVirginia, Minnesota.

But Birchem has found his ownsolution through harvesting woody bio-mass. Not only does he own a wood pel-let plant, providing a clean energysolution for his area, but he also gathersand sells woody biomass to a powerplant.

“I saw some of the economic trendsfor logging a few years ago,” Birchemsaid. “And if it weren’t for biomass, I’donly have half the work I have now. Thepopular position used to be that thereshould be no harvesting of anything, andit seemed like they’d rather have forestfires, but I don’t think that’s the main-stream view anymore.”

Like Birchem, third-generation log-ger Scott Melcher of Sweet Home, Ore-gon, saw an opportunity to diversify hisbusiness when he decided to collaboratewith another local businessman to col-lect and haul the biomass to a utilizationcenter instead of piling it up trailsideand burning it.

So logging does have a future andthere’s a big economic stimulus waitingto be had for rural economies and every-one else – in creating renewable energythrough woody biomass.

“One thing that’s important for peo-ple to understand is that forests grow;that’s what they do,” he said. “There willalways be biomass, and collection ofbiomass could keep loggers going for-ever.”

Pending bill on renewable energyomits mention of woody biomassClearing biomass from forests will keep them healthy

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KL Energy Corp. has engaged in anexclusive cooperation agreement with addblue Ltda. KL Energy and add blue arenow optimizing KL Energy’s cellulosicethanol technology for the use of sugar-cane bagasse and straw feedstock. It hasplanned to build Brazil’s cellulosic ethanolplant using KL’s enzymatic process andcompletely integrated into a conventionalmill with startup in 2010.

Brazil is the world’s second largestproducer of ethanol and the domestic mar-ket is poised to experience a massiveincrease in demand as flex-fuel cars beginto dominate the national fleet. Presently,more than 360 mills are operating inBrazil, all of them generating hugeamounts of sugarcane bagasse, an idealfeedstock for cellulosic ethanol produc-tion.

Further, add blue will offer ethanolplant process optimization services incooperation with KL. Add blue will be thefirst company in Brazil’s sugarcane indus-try to apply the best process simulationtool in the business, Aspen Plus. Sup-ported by KL Energy’s unmatched expert-ise in process optimization, add blue willoffer to mill owners a unique opportunityto increase capacities, yields and prof-itability. Add blue is in the process of suc-cessfully concluding its first full fledgedprocess optimization project at a sugar-cane mill in the State of São Paulo.

KL Energy Corp.expands into Brazil

City evaluates biofuels for boiler useRenewable fuels provider New

Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc.announced that it has signed a contractwith the city of Baltimore, Maryland, toprovide its renewable biofuel in an eval-uation program for boiler applications inthe heart of Baltimore. This is the firsttime the city of Baltimore has evaluateda non fossil fuel in its industrial boilers.

In this program, New GenerationBiofuels will sell the City biofuel forevaluation in various city municipalbuildings.

The outcome of the evaluation isexpected to further validate New Gener-ation Biofuels’ product as a renewablebiofuel which uniquely offers NOx andSO2 reductions as compared to tradi-tional distillate products and provide aplatform for the city of Baltimore toexpand its RFP definitions to include

alternative technology biofuels such asNew Generation Biofuels in future ten-der submissions.

Mascoma Corporation announcedthat the company has made major researchadvances in consolidated bioprocessing, orCBP, a low-cost processing strategy forproduction of biofuels from cellulosic bio-mass. CBP avoids the need for the costlyproduction of cellulase enzymes by usingengineered microorganisms that producecellulases and ethanol at high yield in asingle step.

“This is a true breakthrough that takesus much, much closer to billions of gallonsof low cost cellulosic biofuels,” saidMichigan State University’s Dr. BruceDale. “Many had thought that CBP wasyears or even decades away, but the futurejust arrived. Mascoma has permanentlychanged the biofuels landscape from hereon.”

In a recent Forbes article, biofuelsexpert Helena Chum of the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,Colorado, commented on CBP, saying“This is the golden dream. All of theprocesses in one super-organism. Thatwould be the lowest cost possible.” Aprominent DOE/USDA research agendastates that “CBP is widely considered to bethe ultimate low-cost configuration for cel-lulose hydrolysis and fermentation.”

Multiple research advances presentedby Mascoma chief technology officer Dr.Mike Ladisch at the Symposium onBiotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals inSan Francisco provide proof of concept forCBP. These include advances with bothbacteria that grow at high temperatures,called thermophiles, and recombinant cel-lulolytic yeasts such as:

Thermophilic Bacteria•Production of nearly 6 percent wt/vol

ethanol by an engineered thermophilie, anincrease of 60 percent over what wasreported just a year ago;

•The first report of targeted metabolicengineering of a cellulose-fermenting ther-mophile, Clostridium thermocellum, lead-ing to a reduced production of unwantedorganic acid byproducts; and

•Selected strains of C. thermocellumthat can rapidly consume cellulose withhigh conversion and no added cellulase,

and grow on cellulose in the presence ofcommercial levels of ethanol.

Recombinant, Cellulolytic Yeast•3,000-fold increase in cellulase

expression;•A significant 2.5-fold reduction in

the added cellulase required for conversionof pretreated hardwood to ethanol; and

•Complete elimination of added cellu-lase for conversion of waste paper sludgeto ethanol.

In February 2009, Mascoma’s pilotfacility in Rome, New York began produc-ing cellulosic ethanol. The demonstrationfacility has the flexibility to run on numer-ous biomass feedstocks including woodchips, tall grasses, corn stover (residualcorn stalks) and sugar cane bagasse. Thefacility will provide process performanceengineering data sufficient to support con-struction of 1/10th scale and commercialscale biorefineries in Kinross, Michigan,with support from the Department ofEnergy and State of Michigan.


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University completes gas-to-energy landfill project

The University of New Hampshire’s(UNH) EcoLine, a landfill gas-to-energyproject that uses purified methane gasfrom a nearby landfill to power the cam-pus, is complete, university officialsannounced.

The five million square-foot campuswill receive up to 85 percent of its elec-tricity and heat from purified naturalgas, making UNH the first university inthe nation to use landfill gas as its pri-mary fuel source.

“This massive project, more thanfour years in the making, will reduce ourdependence on fossil fuels and stabilizeour fuel source and costs,” said UNHpresident Mark W. Huddleston.

EcoLine is a partnership with WasteManagement’s Turnkey Recycling andEnvironmental Enterprise (TREE) inRochester, New Hampshire where thenaturally occurring by-product of land-fill decomposition is collected via astate-of-the-art collection system con-

sisting of more than 300 extraction wellsand miles of collection pipes.

After the gas is purified and com-pressed at a new UNH processing plantat TREE, it travels through a 12.7-mile-pipeline from the landfill to UNH’scogeneration plant, where it will replacecommercial natural gas as the primaryfuel source. In operation since 2006,UNH’s cogeneration plant captureswaste heat normally lost during the pro-duction of electricity and uses thisenergy to heat campus buildings.

Total cost of the project, whichincluded construction of the pipeline andthe processing plant at TREE, is $49million. UNH will sell the renewableenergy certificates generated by usinglandfill gas to help finance the overallcost of the project and to invest in addi-tional energy efficiency projects on cam-pus. In addition, UNH will sell power inexcess of campus needs back to the elec-tric grid.

MaxWest Environmentalopens gasification facility

An innovative MaxWest gasificationsystem, first approved by the City ofSanford, Florida in 2008, began operat-ing on May 21 at Sanford’s South WaterResource Center. The occasion alsomarks the official dedication by the Cityof its new Water Resource Center.

The MaxWest system will gasifySanford’s treated wastewater sludge toprovide renewable “green” thermalenergy to replace energy from naturalgas for the City’s sludge dryer. Theenergy in sludge is converted to heatsafely and economically.

Because it is scalable, the gasifica-tion facility has sufficient capacity tomeet Sanford’s expected growth overcoming decades and also to serve as a

disposal site for other nearby cities andprivate waste haulers.

This technology will provide San-ford with a long-term, green solution forsludge disposal while saving millions ofdollars in natural gas fuel costs. San-ford’s 20-year contract with MaxWestalso provides long-term energy price sta-bility. And, as the system grows, theopportunity to produce renewable greenelectricity is available.

The City of Sanford has grown con-siderably over the last 25 years as theCentral Florida region has expanded.Sanford has decided to seek environ-mentally friendly solutions for its wastestreams.

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Russell: Interesting questions, but notwith-standing the current recession, the demand forrecycled plastics in this country generally hasoutpaced supply. For the long term, we believethe best approaches are those that encourageincreased collection through consumer educa-tion, and which promote consistent consumereducation and collection practices across com-munities. That is not to say that there aren’t opportuni-ties to take advantage of federal policies – therecent economic stimulus package includesupwards of $3.2 billion in funding that could beused by communities to expand recycling infra-structure, including for plastics. This is aunique opportunity with a very short timeframe.

The use and recycling of plastic products and packagingis a key issue for environmentalists and consumers, with theplastic water bottle being the 'poster boy' for the need to recy-cle and reduce the use of plastic.

American Recycler recently spoke with Steve Russell,managing director of the American Chemistry Council's(ACC) Plastics Division, to learn more about what is beingdone to maximize the recycling of plastic and promote thedomestic recycling infrastructure.

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Russell: Collection rates generally are drivenby recycling behaviors rather than pricing. Col-lection success is often the result of well-man-aged programs and consumer education. Forthat reason, we believe that collection pro-grams that have been successful to date willcontinue to weather the current economicdownturn.

As a result of the current economic down-turn, has the decrease in demand for plas-tic recyclables affected the collection ofplastics from curbside and businesses?

Russell: Plastics have made huge strides inlightweighting and packaging reduction design.Since the 1970s, the weight of the average 1liter beverage bottle and 1 gallon milk jug hasdeclined by 30 percent. But many companies are announcing evengreater weight reductions. Poland Springsintroduced the new “eco-shape bottle,” whichaccording to the company, “is made with 30percent less plastic”. Similar announcementshave been made recently by Dasani, Aquafina,Pepsi and Coca Cola.

To what extent has the weight of plasticpackaging been reduced? What additionalgains can be attained and is industrymotivated to reduce the amount of plasticbeing used?

Plastic recycling maximized

Should governments provide tax incen-tives and credits to manufacturers thatuse plastic recyclables as a feedstock inorder to promote the collection and use ofplastic? Are domestic manufacturers max-imizing their use of plastic recyclables?

Russell: We’re glad you asked. I can’t tell youhow often we read about plastics and oil con-sumption, when in the United States, plasticsare made primarily (70 percent) from domesticnatural gas. That said, we all share an obliga-tion to use energy responsibly, including bypitching in and recycling. When we recycle, theenergy used to make a plastic product can berepurposed for new products or, where waste-to-energy facilities are in operation, used toheat homes. It is important to recognize that through light-weighting automobiles, reducing packagingand efficient insulation, plastics actually savemuch more energy than they consume. In fact,studies show that the use of plastics reducesenergy consumption by 26 percent and green-house gas emissions by 56 percent comparedto alternative materials. We welcome theObama administration’s focus on energy effi-ciency and greenhouse gas emission reduc-tions. Plastics play a critical role in meetingthese goals.

Are enough people aware of the connec-tion between the manufacturing of plasticproducts and the use of natural gas as afeedstock to manufacture plastics?

Russell: Two of the major themes to emergefrom our recent recycling blog summit are theneed for more consistent recycling approachesfrom community to community and the need tomake it easier for consumers to know what torecycle. Both of these barriers largely boil down to aneed for more consistent infrastructure andcollection and education practices. Studieshave shown that consumer participation ratestend to increase when we make things simple.For example, offering single-stream recyclingand accepting “all bottles” in collection pro-grams as opposed to collecting by the numberhas led to measurable increases.

What are some of the major barriers toplastics recycling today?

Russell: ACC is sponsoring some innovativepilot programs to help promote recycling and tokeep valuable plastic material from beingwasted, or worse, ending up as litter. Last year, we placed more than 500 recyclingbins and educational signage on highly traf-ficked beaches from Monterey to San Diego,and this year, we’re expanding our efforts to

What is the ACC doing to help govern-ments educate the various stakeholdersto recycle and what can be done in termsof installing infrastructure to collect plas-tics in more public areas?

Application denied forTennessee coal ash use

The Pennsylvania Department ofEnvironmental Protection (DEP) denieda request by the Tennessee ValleyAuthority to bring coal ash that spilledinto the Emery River in Tennessee inDecember to Pennsylvania for reclama-tion of abandoned coal mines becausethe ash does not meet Pennsylvania’sstrict environmental standards, accord-ing to Environmental Protection Secre-tary John Hanger.

“Coal ash that has been previouslydisposed of and stored as a waste mate-rial, and spilled onto adjacent land andinto a river is classified as residualwaste and does not meet the certifica-tion requirements for beneficial useunder Pennsylvania law,” Hanger said.“This ash material was accidentallyreleased from a disposal impoundmentand mixed with unknown materials inthe river water and bottom sediment.DEP only certifies coal ash for minereclamation in Pennsylvania that is notcontaminated with other materials andcan meet our stringent chemical require-ments.”

In December 2008, the failure of anabove-ground ash disposal impound-ment at Harriman, Tennessee, spilledmore than five million cubic yards ofcoal ash into the Emery River, adverselyaffecting the river and destroying homesand property.

The Environmental ProtectionAgency ordered the owner of theimpoundment, the Tennessee ValleyAuthority, to dredge the ash materialfrom the river as part of a cleanupplan. The authority applied to DEP inApril to approve this ash source for usein the reclamation of mine lands inPennsylvania.

DEP denied the request for certifi-cation because the material does notmeet the definition of “coal ash” asdefined in the Solid Waste ManagementAct and Pennsylvania’s Residual Wasteregulations.

DEP regulates the beneficial use ofcoal ash and other materials in the recla-mation of abandoned mine lands. This isdone under strict environmental stan-dards created to protect public health,safety and the environment while help-ing to alleviate Pennsylvania’s aban-doned mine lands problem – generallyacknowledged as the most extensive inthe nation.

The ash certification processinvolves identification of the ash source,the type of coal ash generation processand the fuel sources utilized, and a deter-mination of the physical and chemicalproperties of the ash. Coal ash and coalash leachate are analyzed for 37 differ-ent chemical constituents and properties.The ash leachate must consistently con-tain concentration levels lower than thecertification guideline limits in order tobe approved for statewide beneficial useat mine sites.

More than 11 million tons of coalash were used in the reclamation of coalmine sites in Pennsylvania in 2008. Themajority of the ash was generated byburning waste coal, which resulted inremoval of old waste piles that werecontributing to stream pollution.

Pennsylvania has approximately180,000 acres of abandoned mine landsdating back to when coal mining beganin the state in the 1700s. More than twobillion tons of waste coal sits in pilesacross the state and an estimated 4,600miles of rivers and streams are degradedby mine drainage.

The Tennessee coal ash spill covered hundreds ofacres and spilled into streams and rivers.

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ISRI presents Lifetime Achievement AwardsThe Institute of Scrap Recycling

Industries, Inc. (ISRI) presented its 2009Lifetime Achievement Award to the lateLeonard Rifkin of OmniSource Corp.and Ben Sacco of Sierra InternationalMachinery LLC during the association’sannual convention.

Leonard Rifkin became acquaintedwith the scrap business through hisfather, a Russian immigrant who startedcollecting and selling rags, paper andscrap metal. In 1943 he bought his firstscrap yard. Leonard Rifkin got his firsttaste of the business there — and didn’tlike it, but after earning a bachelor’sdegree in business and a two year stint inthe Army, he tried again and neverturned back.

He became president of SuperiorIron & Metal Company in 1963 andfashioned his first joint venture. Over the

years, he made more than 25 acquisi-tions. He welcomed his sons Daniel,Martin and Richard into the business andat the suggestion of his eldest son, herenamed the company OmniSource.

Today, the company handles 6.5million tons of ferrous scrap and 700million pounds of non-ferrous scrapannually.

Leonard Rifkin passed away in2008. The award was accepted on hisbehalf by his sons.

Ben Sacco was born in a smallmountain town outside Salerno, Italy, in1922 and immigrated to the UnitedStates in 1935. He and a partner estab-lished the Sierra Bag Company in 1947and as the business expanded to buyingcopper, radiators, and batteries fromfarmers, Sierra Iron and Metal Companywas formed in 1959.

A quarter century later on a visit toItaly, Sacco visited a scrap yard nearVenice and discovered a uniquemachine – a mobile baler that couldprocess twice as much in a day as itsUnited States counterparts. Hepromptly bought one, and whenanother scrap dealer saw it, he wantedone, too.

So at an age when many are con-sidering retirement, Sacco embarkedon a new career as an equipment ven-dor. He introduced the combinationshear/baler domestically, and soonSierra International Machineryexpanded into shear/baler/loggers,cranes, grapples, and more.

With six-plus decades in the scrapbusiness, Ben Sacco still puts in six-day work weeks at Sierra.

METALS

Steel import applications drop Based on the Commerce Depart-

ment’s most recent Steel Import Monitor-ing and Analysis (SIMA) data, theAmerican Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)reported that steel import permit applica-tions for the month of April totaled1,170,000 net tons (NT).

This was a 22 percent decrease fromboth the 1,503,000 permit tons recorded inMarch 2009 and the March preliminaryimports total of 1,505,000 NT. Import per-mit tonnage for finished steel in April was1,046,000 NT, a decrease of 27 percentfrom the preliminary imports total of1,437,000 NT in March and the lowestmonthly import figure since February1993.

In April 2009, the largest finishedsteel import permit applications for off-shore countries were for China (93,000

NT), India (76,000 NT), Japan (73,000NT), South Korea (68,000 NT) and Ger-many (51,000 NT). Finished imports fromNAFTA countries were at the same importmarket share as in March (32 percent).However, finished imports from a largenumber of smaller foreign suppliers actu-ally increased in April vs. the prior month.Finished steel import market share inApril, despite the 27 percent monthly dropfrom March, is estimated at 24 percent,equal to 2008.

Finished steel import products thatregistered increases in April vs. the Marchpreliminary include Electrolytic Galva-nized Sheet and Strip (up 23 percent) andHeavy Structural Shapes (up 16 percent).Year-to-date, imports of Oil CountryTubular Goods (OCTG) remain signifi-cantly higher (up 48 percent).

Nucor Corporation announced aconsolidated net loss of $189.6 million,or $0.60 per diluted share, for the firstquarter of 2009. By comparison, Nucorearned $409.8 million, or $1.41per diluted share, in the first quarter of2008 and earned $105.9 million, or$0.34 per diluted share, in the fourthquarter of 2008.

Nucor’s consolidated net salesdecreased 47 percent to $2.65 billioncompared with $4.97 billion in the firstquarter of 2008 due to a 43 percentdecrease in total tons shipped to outsidecustomers and a 7 percent decrease inaverage sales price per ton. Consoli-dated net sales decreased 36 percentcompared with $4.15 billion in thefourth quarter of 2008 due to a 14 per-cent decrease in total tons shipped tooutside customers and a 26 percentdecrease in average sales price per ton.

The average scrap and scrap substi-tute cost per ton used remained flat at$333 in the first quarters of 2008 and2009 and decreased 23 percent from$435 in the fourth quarter of 2008.

The steel mill utilization rate hasdecreased to approximately 45 percentin the first quarter from 92 percent inlast year’s first quarter and 48 percent inthe fourth quarter. As a result of thisdecreased utilization, total energy costsincreased approximately $11 per tonfrom the first quarter of 2008 to the firstquarter of 2009 and increased approxi-mately $5 per ton from the fourth quar-ter of 2008.

In February, Nucor’s boarddeclared a cash dividend of $.35 pershare payable on May 12, 2009 tostockholders of record on March 31,2009.

This dividend is Nucor’s one-hun-dred forty-fourth consecutive quarterlycash dividend, a record expected to con-tinue.

Nucor posts2009 firstquarter results

Based on preliminary CensusBureau data, the American Iron andSteel Institute (AISI) reported that theUnited States imported a total of1,505,000 net tons (NT) of steel inMarch 2009, including 1,437,000 NT offinished steel (down 5 percent and 3 per-cent, respectively, vs. February finaldata). Total and finished steel imports onan annualized basis are down 32 percentand 22 percent, respectively, vs. 2008.

Finished steel import market shareis an estimated 29 percent in March, andan estimated 31 percent for Q1 2009.

Key products with increases inMarch 2009 compared to Februaryinclude Reinforcing Bars (up 155 per-cent), Mechanical Tubing (up 46 per-cent), Hot Dipped Galvanized Sheet &Strip (up 28 percent), Line Pipe (up 24percent) and Standard Pipe (up 24 per-

cent). For Q1 2009 vs. same period lastyear, OCTG imports (led by China)increased 79 percent.

In March, the largest volume of fin-ished imports from offshore was fromChina (196,000 NT, down 28 percentfrom February). The March tonnagefrom China was 14 percent of all fin-ished imports and, based on the Marchdata, finished steel imports from Chinain 2009 would annualize at 3.6 millionNT. Other major offshore suppliers inMarch were Korea (135,000 NT, down11 percent from March), Japan(107,000, up 7 percent), and India(83,000 NT, up 11 percent). For Q12009 vs. same period last year, finishedimports increased significantly for anumber of countries – including China(up by 78 percent).

Steel imports decline


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U.S. IMPORTS OF FINISHED STEEL MILL PRODUCTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (Thousands of Net Tons)

CHINASOUTH KOREAJAPANINDIATURKEYGERMANYBRAZILTAIWANAll OthersTOTAL

MAR20091961351078369554538

7091,437

FEB20092721521007567345935

6841,479

MAR200824315914411530814864

1,2282,113

2008Annual

4,8212,3051,6141,102

8271,122

436662

13,06725,956

% Change 2009Annual vs. 2008

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20%-31.8%34.8%-8.8%

-29.9%-21.8%

Universal Stainless & Alloy Prod-ucts, Inc. announced a base priceincrease of 5 percent on all tool steelplate manufactured at its Bridgevillefacility. The increase is effective imme-diately for all new orders. Publishedmaterial and energy surcharges willremain in effect.

Universal Stainlessincreases baseprice of tool steel

The board of directors of SchnitzerSteel Industries, Inc. declared a cash div-idend of $0.017 per common share,payable on June 1, 2009, to shareholdersof record on May 18, 2009.

Schnitzer has paid a dividend everyquarter since going public in November1993.

Schnitzer Steelboard declaresquarterly dividend

RUBBER

TIA accepting nominationsfor 2009 Hall of Fame

The Tire Industry Association (TIA)announced the association is acceptingnominations for the 2009 Tire IndustryHall of Fame from May 1 to July 1,2009. The Hall of Fame is open to indi-viduals in the tire industry, includingmanufacturers, inventors, publishers,equipment suppliers, tire associationexecutives, tire dealers, tire and rubberrecyclers and retreaders. The “HistoricalContributors” category of the Hall ofFame recognizes those individuals whohave been out of the industry for at least20 years or more. These individuals maybe retired, deceased, or may have beguntheir career in the tire industry andmoved on to a different industry.

Inductees are chosen based on thefollowing criteria: their contributions ofnew ideas, practices and/or innovationsthat promote the health and well beingof the tire industry; their exemplary and

distinguished service in the tire industry;and the respect of their peers. Contribu-tions in civic, cultural, educational orcharitable endeavors will be considered,but are not a primary consideration asattributes for selection.

TIA is also accepting nominationsfor the Friend of the Industry Award (aformer International Tire and RubberAssociation award) which recognizeswell-known individuals who are alliesand proven supporters of the tire indus-try. These individuals are not part of thetire industry, but have affected it posi-tively in some manner.

The deadline for nominations forthe Tire Industry Hall of Fame andFriend of the Industry Award is July 1,2009.

For details and how to obtain anomination form, view this article on


Louisiana rubber recyclingplant approved for operation

Louisiana Elastomer has receivedapproval from the state of Louisiana tobegin operations at its rubber recyclingplant in northwest Louisiana. The com-pany, which provides a unique andcleaner solution to recycling scrap tires,has already begun exporting its productto China, Sri Lanka, Mexico andGermany.

The company’s environmentallyfriendly technology replaces the currentstandard disposal practice, producinga value added product that provides apermanent solution to the hazardous

waste problem relating to the disposalof scrap rubber and waste tires. Theprocess allows for more recycledmaterial to be made into new rubberproducts, such as conveyor belting,industrial rollers and tread rubber fornew and re-capped tires.

The investment in Louisiana Elas-tomer was made in connection with theLouisiana New Markets Developmentprogram, an economic development tooldesigned to encourage investment insmall businesses located in distressedcommunities throughout the state.

Magnum prepares foropening of high volumerubber processing plant

Magnum D'Or Resources, Inc.announced the arrival of its latest systemto Magog, Quebec – the Granutech Griz-zly M80. The company expects moreequipment deliveries as completionnears for the high volume crumb/nuggetrubber plant they have planned.

Magnum Canada has recently pre-pared new client samples to be deliveredto the Magnum/SRI Lab in Malaysia.Tests include 20, 30, and 40 mesh outputfrom OTR tire buffing operations. Thesenew compound trials will be utilized inthe current and future Next GenerationCustom Compounds.

Magnum has also been working ona completely innovative way of cuttinghuge OTR “Black Gold” tires. Resultsare expected to be available very shortly.The is expected to benefit the outputproduction significantly when producingnuggets, crumb, powders and next gen-eration compounds.

Magnum's current 98,000 sq. ft.facility is located in Magog, Quebec.The company is utilizing their technol-ogy to produce next generation rubberrecycling solutions for custom com-pounds, retread compounds, processingaids, advanced state-of-the-art equip-ment and reactivated ambient/cryogenicrubber powders for the global market.

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Steel prices got you down?

2008 Sierra RB6000 Like new condition. Approx. 400 hours. $375,000

2005 Al-jon 580CL 4,000 hours. Good condition. $299,000

2007 Al-jon 400XL Approx. 1,300 hours. Very nice. $260,000

2004 Al-jon 400XL 6,500 hours. Nice condition. $235,000

2009 Iron Ax Iron Packer Auto Logger. NEW with crane. $438,000

BALERS

2003 Linkbelt 4300 Rotating grapple, scrap handler pkg. $72,000

2003 Liebherr R954 HWD Equipped with 25 kW gen-set. $248,000

1996 Liebherr 932EW Scrap grapple. Good condition. $148,000

2006 Fuchs MHL 350 With grapple, 5,600 hours. Very nice. $239,000

2002 Liebherr A904 10,000 hours, gen-set. Good condition. $129,000

1999 Fuchs RHL 340 Grapple, no gen-set. Good condition. $179,000

1994 CAT 375LC Rebuilt motor. $239,000

1989 CAT EL300 Includes magnet & grapple Runs well. $68,000

MATERIAL HANDLERS

2003 Case 621D Forks, good condition. 9,000 hours. $72,000

2001 John Deere 544H With car forks. Excellent condition. $52,000

2006 Case 621D Forks and bucket. 2,000 hours. $115,000

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1978 Al-jon Model 20 Crusher with automation. Works well. $26,000

2003 E-Z Crusher A+ Loaded! Nice condition. $110,000

2006 MAC Crusher QS 1,960 hours, loaded. $110,000

2005 OverBuilt 10HS Loaded, 4,500 hours. Good condition. $108,000

1993 Al-jon LC90 Good working condition. $60,000

1989 Al-jon Model 20 Comes equipped with automation. $39,500

CAR CRUSHERS

2008 JMH 42’ dump trailer. 90 yard. Used 7 times. $56,000

2006 Stoughton 52’ drop deck trailer. Used 6 times. $20,500

1993/2006 Komatsu PC 220LC Includes MSD 2500 shear. $148,000

2004/2008 CAT 325 With MSD 2500 shear. 4,800/600 hours. $295,000

2008 LaBounty UP30SV Shear in almost new condition. $155,000

1992/2000 Koehring 6644-7 With LaBounty MSD70 $95,000

Mosley 350-T 350-ton shear, well maintained. $55,000

Mosley 500-T 500-ton shear with squeeze box. Runs. $65,000

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Over the past month, environmental-ists have been strongly expressing theirdisappointment regarding the “Cash forClunkers” compromise legislationannounced by Democrat lawmakers andPresident Barack Obama. In prominentmedia outlets such as the NewYork-Times.com, they warn that the $4 billiontaxpayer-funded compromise provides lit-tle in oil savings or cuts to global warmingpollution. Those who care about the envi-ronment should also be alarmed that theproposal paints a bull’s eye on the vehiclerecycling industry.

Regrettably, the current Congres-sional “Cash for Clunkers” proposal seeksto restrict the recycling of two majorreplacement parts – the engine and trans-mission – harvested from vehicles turnedin for end-of-life processing under the pro-gram. The reuse of recycled engine andtransmission parts – and not having to pro-duce a new replacement part – provides ahuge benefit to the environment, the

equivalent of what it takes to produce 50million gallons of gasoline or the electricalusage of over 61,000 homes for a year.Not to mention, the manufacturing of anew car requires energy which in turnleads to greenhouse gas emissions likeCO². It is estimated that when one drives anew car out of the showroom that car hasalready effectively emitted from 3 to 12tons of CO².

American consumers and automo-bile repair businesses purchase thesequality recycled vehicle componentsevery day to keep their vehicles running.These businesses and consumers rely onparts from recycled vehicles because oftheir substantial savings in reducedrepair costs and lower insurance premi-ums, savings from the purchase of areplacement vehicle, and also for thestrong environmental benefits. In fact,these two parts alone typically accountfor some 50 to 60 percent of a profes-sional automotive recycler’s sales –

overall automotive recycling is a $22billion industry in the United States.Thus, Congress should understand thedemand for such repair options, andconsider the implications of restrictingthem.

“One would think that Congresswould have learned a lesson from therecent home mortgage mess,” says Auto-motive Recyclers Association’s execu-tive vice president Michael E. Wilson.

“Pushing consumers into vehicles thatthey cannot afford is not good for any-one – most of all the American tax-payer.” Wilson added, “The recovery,reuse, and resale of these quality recy-cled parts must remain readily availableto the consumer, who may not want orbe able to financially retire their vehicle,and will require access to parts fromthese vehicles for their future repairs.”

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All across the world, governmentsare implementing early vehicle retire-ment programs that are intended to helpstruggling automakers.

This year already, two acceleratedvehicle retirement bills have been intro-duced in the United States Congress.Regrettably, both seek to restrict the saleof two major replacement parts – theengine and transmission – harvestedfrom vehicles turned in for end-of-lifeprocessing under these programs.Notwithstanding good intentions, whilethese measures may assist automakersnow, they will inevitably hurt the con-sumer later, with short-term and long-term repercussions, if not properlyaddressed. Additional analysis of thepotential ramifications of these proposedprograms is needed.

The critical nature of this kind ofbroad legislation is twofold. First, Amer-ican automobile repair businesses andconsumers purchase these recycled vehi-

cle components every day to keep theirvehicles running. These businesses andconsumers rely on parts from recycledvehicles because of their substantial sav-ings in reduced repair costs and lowerinsurance premiums, savings from thepurchase of a replacement vehicle, andalso for the strong environmental bene-fits. In fact, these two parts alone typi-cally account for some 50 to 60 percentof a professional automotive recycler’ssales – overall automotive recycling is a$22 billion industry in the United States.Thus, Congress should understand thedemand for such repair options, andconsider the implications of restrictingthem.

Secondly, what may be a voluntaryprogram for a consumer turning in a vehi-cle under the “Cash for Clunkers” pro-gram now quickly becomes a compulsoryprogram for non-participating consumerslater because of reduced access to replace-ment parts, which in turn causes inflated

prices. Not to mention that these recycledautomotive replacement parts have thesame performance, safety, fit, and durabil-ity standards because they were made bythe Original Equipment Manufacturers.

The Automotive Recyclers Associa-tion’s executive vice president MichaelE. Wilson questions the sensibility of theprogram given the current situation ofthe automotive manufacturers. “With thedaily questions in the media about theeconomic survival of major automobilemanufacturers and their suppliers, howirresponsible is it for Congress to pushfor the needless scrapping of millions ofreplacement parts when the very supplychain for new parts is in jeopardy?”

Ultimately, these efforts tread intounchartered waters. Even though these ini-tiatives are modeled on prior programs,the difference is the vehicle life yearsthese programs now include, which can beas current as 8 years old. With vehicles onAmerica’s roads averaging 9.7 years andtrending older, the adverse financial con-sequences of these programs, especiallyon the average American family, is realand has not been adequately considered.There is also a significant risk that theseprograms will encourage future govern-ments to treat motor vehicles more like adisposable product to be routinely dis-carded based on any issue of the dayinstead of maximizing the vehicle’s recy-cled parts content and its true life cycle.

The recovery, reuse, and resale ofquality recycled parts must remain readilyavailable to the consumer who may notwant or be able to retire their vehicle andwill require access to parts from thesevehicles for their future repairs.

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A Midas Muffler shop located inBellevue, Washington has reached a$9,300 settlement with the Environmen-tal Protection Agency (EPA) to resolvealleged federal Toxic Substances ControlAct (TSCA) violations related to themishandling of PCBs.

The PCB problems were initiallydiscovered by a used oil recycler in Seat-tle, who received a shipment of 150 gal-lons of used oil from Midas in October2007. Midas did not inform the recycler

that the used oil contained PCBs. Whenthe recycler tested the oil and found thatit was contaminated with PCBs, theynotified EPA. The company was forcedto dispose all of the used oil as PCB-contaminated fluid.

According to Daniel Duncan, EPA’sregional PCB program coordinator inSeattle, facilities that handle used oilthat may contain PCBs need to haveproper testing, notification, storage,shipping, and disposal practices and fol-low their obligations under the TSCA.

Midas’ alleged violations included: •Failure to properly mark the

contaminated oil container with a PCBlabel;

•Failure to notify EPA in advance ofthe shipment of the PCB waste;

•Failure to prepare a manifest for theshipment of the PCB waste.

Companies should use either a fieldscreening test kit or send a sample oftheir used oil to a laboratory for analysisto determine if it contains PCBs. It isimportant for companies to make thisdetermination before sending the usedoil for energy recovery/disposal. If theused oil is found to have PCBs, thecompany must isolate the PCB-contain-ing oil to prevent it from further con-taminating other used oil.

The Oregon Department of Envi-ronmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a$9,061 penalty to Regan A. Cummins,doing business as Goshen Auto Recy-clers, for operating an auto dismantlingand salvaging business without an indus-trial stormwater permit. The business islocated in Eugene.

Cummins has operated GoshenAuto Recyclers since September 2007.Because of the type of business activityat the site, including the distribution ofwholesale or retail used motor vehicleparts, the business is required to obtain aNational Pollutant Discharge Elimina-tion System 1200-Z permit. The permitaddresses stormwater discharges comingoff the property and helps ensure thatappropriate stormwater control measuresare in place to protect water quality andminimize the amount of industrial pollu-tants exposed to stormwater that couldenter public rivers and streams.

Stormwater from Goshen Auto Recy-clers discharges along Highway 99 Southinto a drainage ditch, which ends in theCoast Fork of the Willamette River.

DEQ originally sent a letter toCummins in January 2008, stating that

the business required a permit. DEQrequested that the business submit a per-mit application, land use compatibilitystatement and stormwater control planby January 2008 or a no exposure certi-fication application if Cummins believeda permit was not needed. DEQ receivedno response. DEQ sent another letter toCummins in September 2008, requestingthat the business apply for the necessarypermit within 30 days. After DEQattempted to work with Cummins to dealwith his concerns about keeping hisbusiness open during an economicdowntown and permit fee costs, Cum-mins still did not apply to DEQ for apermit. With no response, DEQ notifiedCummins in January 2009 that the viola-tion was being referred for formalenforcement. Cummins applied for thepermit on April 20, 2009.

In calculating the penalty, DEQcomputed that Cummins gained $2,461in economic benefit by failing to applyfor and pay for the necessary permit.Cummins appealed the penalty on April20 and has requested a contested casehearing.


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Reid Hoffman, chief executive officerof LinkedIn, asked an interesting questionof participants involved in the business net-working site. He asked a question about thebest ways small business people couldstimulate the economy on a grassrootslevel.

I believe he is asking the right ques-tion. I firmly believe that the recovery,when it comes, will be led by small busi-ness owners. Small business owners don’task for a lot of help from the government.They need only government policies whichdo not hinder them in their efforts to createjobs.

In the current climate, even these poli-cies may be too much to hope for, but thereis still a lot that small business owners cando to make certain they thrive in the chal-lenging times ahead.

I have been in business for more than30 years. I did very well in the auto salvagebusiness – even during severe economicdownturns in 1980–81 and 1991–92.

I attribute a lot of my small businesssuccess in tough times to a peer bench-marking review group that I belonged to.The group was made up of about a dozensalvage yard owners from non-competitivemarkets.

We met twice per year and shared ouroperating metrics. In the more than 10years the peer benchmarking review groupexisted, not one of the small business own-ers dropped out. Let me tell you why.

Each meeting, one or two of us hadnumbers for a metric that far exceeded thegroup’s average. We shared the specifics ofhow we achieved those results with theother small business owners in the group.

The group went home, applied whatthey learned, and grew their market shareat the expense of local competitors whowere not part of an industry-specific peerbenchmarking review group like ours.Over time, the gap between members ofthe group and their competitors grew widerand wider because the business ownerswho belonged were tapping hundreds of

years of industry experience twice a year.They all benefited from innovations per-fected by any member of the group whiletheir competitors muddled through alone.

In 1999, Ford Motor Company pur-chased many of the businesses that wereowned by members of that group. They didso because the small business owners inour group led their industry in innovationand in booked business. I attribute most ofmy success in the salvage business toapplying what I learned in those meetingsof yard owners.

Certainly, I contributed a great deal,but I never left one of our industry-specificpeer benchmarking review group sessionswithout three or four immediately action-able ways to improve my small business.Same-industry peer mentoring is amongthe most stimulating things business own-ers can do for themselves to ensure thatthey thrive in this tough economy.

I am working on a project to formsuch groups for small business owners in avariety of industries. If you see the value ofattending such a session, call me nowbecause we will only take one businessfrom each geographic area so that competi-tors do not find themselves across the tablefrom each other.

Hoffman is right – the economy willgrow as a result of the innovation ofsmaller entrepreneurs who invest in them-selves and their businesses. Bailing outbusinesses that are “too large to fail” isfolly that will cost the taxpayer dearly. Iinvite you to take the initiative and becomea part of a peer benchmarking reviewgroup for your industry.

Visit www.MrMissionPossible.com tolearn more about industry-specific peerbenchmarking review groups. From per-sonal experience, I will tell you they workto generate the extra business required togrow a small business in tough times. Ourpeer benchmarking review group meetingis August 25th, 2009, though we host meet-ings for other small businesses year round.

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LKQ announces recordrevenue and earnings

LKQ Corporation announced recordresults for the first quarter in 2009. Rev-enue was $518 million, an increase of 5.3percent from $491.9 million in the firstquarter of 2008. Net income for the firstquarter of 2009 was $32.3 million, anincrease of 4.6 percent from $30.9 millionin the first quarter of 2008. Diluted earn-ings per share was $0.23, as compared to$0.22 for the same period of last year.

For the first quarter of 2009, consoli-dated revenue, excluding other revenue,was $469.3 million, an increase of 9.1 per-cent compared to $429.9 million for thefirst quarter of 2008. Organic revenuegrowth, excluding other revenue, was 5.1percent. Organic revenue growth, includ-ing other revenue, was flat because of theimpact of lower commodity prices, prima-rily affecting self-service retail operations.

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Safety-Kleen is making its re-refinedoil available to consumers under the brandname EcoPower. The company is targetingretailers and distributors in the top 100United States markets to offer the newproduct, including AutoZone.

“Our research shows that consumersare ready for a new category of motor oil -recycled motor oil – with EcoPower,” saidFred Florjancic, president and chief execu-tive officer of Safety-Kleen.

In 2008, Safety-Kleen collected morethan 225 million gallons of used oil andrecycled approximately 140 million of itinto base oil products for re-use in themarketplace. Safety-Kleen’s re-refined oilmeets or exceeds all applicable specifica-tions set by the American Petroleum Insti-tute (API) and the Society of AutomotiveEngineers, and is currently used by manylarge organizations, including the military,numerous state governments and automo-tive fleets.

The process for re-refining used oil isvirtually the same as refining crude oil.Both go through the same exactingprocesses of distillation and hydro treat-ing. The end product is identical to tradi-tional motor oils made from crude andmust meet the same specifications.

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Ford Motor Company is investing$550 million to transform its MichiganAssembly Plant into a lean, green andflexible manufacturing complex that willbuild Ford’s next-generation Focus smallcar along with a battery-electric version ofthe Focus for the North American market.

The plant, formerly the productionsite for Ford Expedition and Lincoln Nav-igators SUVs, is one of three North Amer-ican light truck plants Ford is retooling tobuild fuel-efficient small cars. The newFocus will begin rolling off the line nextyear and the battery-electric version of theFocus – Ford’s first all-electric passengercar – debuts in 2011.

As part of the retooling, Ford willconsolidate its operations from the WayneAssembly Plant. When productionlaunches in 2010, approximately 3,200employees will be building the new Focusat Michigan Assembly Plant. At the plant,Ford and United Auto Workers are devel-oping modern new operating practices toensure high quality.

To produce the vehicles, Ford is con-verting three plants to car plants – Michi-gan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly inMexico and the Louisville, KentuckyAssembly, which will be converted to pro-duce small vehicles from Ford’s globalFocus platform beginning in 2011.

Ford invests $550million to convertMichigan plant

INTERNATIONALRecyclers set for economic boostwith release of plastics quality protocol

A new Quality Protocol publishedby the Waste Protocols Project, a jointWaste & Resources Action Programme(WRAP) and Environment Agency ini-tiative, will simplify the recovery ofwaste non-packaging plastic – such asplastic pipes, toys and garden furniture -and make it easier for manufacturers toincorporate the material into new prod-ucts.

Compliance with the Quality Proto-col, which applies in England andWales, will give plastics recyclers theopportunity to assure the quality andconsistency of the materials they pro-duce. This will help them take advantageof a range of business and environmentalbenefits, including potentially lowerenergy costs, increased revenue and sig-nificant reductions in the amount of car-

bon dioxide created through productionprocesses.

Plastic converters or manufacturerswho buy Quality Protocol compliantmaterial may also benefit from a reduc-tion in their material costs, and they willhave the assurance that they are purchas-ing a fit-for-purpose, consistent and reli-able non-waste product.

Produced in consultation with keystakeholders from the plastics industry,this new protocol works by establishingend-of-waste criteria for the productionof secondary raw materials from wastenon-packaging plastics. Crucially, recy-clers and processors who comply withthe protocol will be able to recoverwaste non-packaging plastic at an earlypoint in the supply chain. When it hasbeen converted into chips or flakes, for

example, the material will no longer besubject to waste management controls.

Marcus Gover, director of marketdevelopment at WRAP, said, “ThisQuality Protocol will help industry recy-cle more of the estimated 1.4 milliontons of non-packaging plastics wastegenerated in the United Kingdom everyyear. At present, around 160,000 tons ofthis material is recycled annually – sothere is significant scope for increasingthe recovery rates. It is now significantlyeasier for the recycling and manufactur-ing sectors to turn waste non-packagingplastics into valuable and useful prod-ucts. The project is about improvingbusiness and resource efficiency, reduc-ing waste to landfill and helping totackle climate change.”

In just six months, 100 leadingorganizations from across the construc-tion supply chain have committed toWaste & Resources Action Programme(WRAP) Halving Waste to Landfill vol-untary agreement, indicating thatresource efficiency remains a prioritydespite the recession.

With the construction sector cur-rently sending some 25 million tons ofwaste to landfill every year, the growingnumber of signatories suggests mount-ing recognition of the economic andenvironmental case for change.

“Confirmation in the Budget for2009 that landfill tax will continue toincrease year-on-year gives an addedincentive to this collaborative effort toreduce the amount of construction wastesent to landfill,” comments Nick Rayns-ford, chair of the Strategic Forum forConstruction. “The industry’s responseto WRAP’s Halving Waste to Landfillcommitment is encouraging and demon-strates a clear understanding that thecost savings that sustainable workingcan deliver are critical in a challengingeconomic climate.“

Marcus Gover, director of marketdevelopment at WRAP emphasized theimportance of signatories now deliveringagainst their commitment: “By launch-ing this commitment in October 2008,WRAP created a framework to supportthe entire construction supply chain inreaping the significant economic andenvironmental benefits that come fromincreased waste reduction. Signing up isjust the beginning – signatories are set-ting targets and reporting progress yearon year. WRAP provides practical sup-port to ensure that all signatories havethe tools and support they need todeliver against the waste reduction tar-gets – benchmarking, measurement andreporting are key.”

100 organizationssign up to halvewaste to landfill

KYOCERA supplies solarmodules for Toyota Prius

Kyocera Corporation announced thatit is supplying solar modules for the newToyota Prius solar ventilation system, anoptional feature for the hybrid car modelintroduced in Japan by Toyota Motor Cor-poration. The system ventilates the airinside of the car by using the electricitygenerated by the solar module on therooftop to drive the fans while the car isparked during the daytime. This featureautomatically moderates temperature riseinside of the vehicle even during hot sea-sons.

For this product, Kyocera has imple-mented strict quality control evaluations,

done through rigorous testing to confirmheat resistance, vibration resistance, shockresistance and other aspects, in order toensure that the quality meets the standardsrequired for onboard components used onthe new Prius. For the production of thismodule, Kyocera has set up a dedicatedproduction line with specialized manufac-turing engineers to ensure thorough manu-facturing control.

A high level of aesthetic quality wasalso required of the design of the solarmodules because they will be mounted onthe roof of the new Prius model.


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Rentech builds renewable diesel facilityRentech, Inc. plans to build a plant

in Rialto, California for the productionof ultra-clean synthetic fuels and electricpower from renewable waste biomassfeedstocks.

The Rialto Renewable Energy Cen-ter (Rialto Project) is designed to pro-duce approximately 600 barrels per dayof renewable synthetic fuels and exportapproximately 35 megawatts of renew-able electric power that is expected toqualify under California’s RenewablePortfolio Standard (RPS) program,which requires utilities to increase theamount of electric power they sell fromqualified renewable-energy resources.The plant will be capable of providingenough electricity for approximately30,000 homes.

RenDiesel™, the renewable syn-thetic diesel to be produced at the facil-ity, meets all applicable fuels standards,is compatible with existing engines andpipelines and burns cleanly, with emis-sions of particulates and other regulatedpollutants significantly lower than fromthe combustion of CARB ultra-low sul-fur diesel.

The carbon footprint of the plant isdesigned to be near zero as the fuels andpower would be produced only fromrenewable feedstocks. The low carbonfootprint of RenDiesel would help thetransportation sector meet targets estab-lished by the Low Carbon Fuel StandardExecutive Order 1-S-07 to reduce the

carbon intensity of transportation fuelsby 2020.

Rentech has entered into a licensingagreement with SilvaGas Corporationfor biomass gasification technology forthe Rialto facility. Between 1998 and2001, a 400 ton per day plant using theSilvaGas biomass gasification technol-ogy successfully operated in Burlington,Vermont, producing synthesis gas (syn-gas) from wood-based biomass in aseries of operating campaigns. Thatplant was built in partnership with theDepartment of Energy, Battelle Colum-bus Laboratory and the National Renew-able Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Rentech’s technology for the condi-tioning and clean-up of syngas will pro-vide the next critical link in the technologychain after gasification. The conditionedsyngas will be converted by the RentechProcess in a commercial scale reactor tofinished, ultra-clean products such as syn-thetic diesel and naphtha using upgradingtechnologies under an alliance betweenRentech and UOP, a Honeywell Company.Renewable electric power will be pro-duced at the facility by using conventionalhigh-efficiency gas turbine technology.The power is anticipated to be sold to localutilities under the California RPS program.

Having completed preliminary scop-ing studies, Rentech has engaged JacobsEngineering Group Inc. to conduct the fea-sibility engineering phase of the project,which is expected to be completed over

the next several months. This work willadvance project development activitiesincluding preliminary design and plotplans and provide construction cost esti-mates that would then continue to berefined throughout the subsequent detailedengineering phases of the project.

Rentech has an exclusive option ona site for the Rialto Project within theproposed Rialto Eco-Industrial Park,which is located adjacent to an existingCity of Rialto Wastewater TreatmentPlant and EnerTech EnvironmentalRegional Bio-Solids Processing Facility.The location allows the proposed Rialtofacility to take advantage of establishedinfrastructure including access to water,wastewater disposal and zoning.

The primary feedstock for the RialtoProject will be urban woody green wastesuch as yard clippings, for which Rentechis currently negotiating supply agree-ments. The location of the project will pro-vide local green waste haulers with acost-effective alternative to increasinglyscarce landfills for the disposal of woodygreen waste. The plant is designed to alsouse bio-solids for a portion of the feed-stock which is expected to be providedunder a supply agreement with EnerTechEnvironmental.

Construction of the Rialto facility isexpected to create approximately 250jobs with at least 55 permanent jobs dur-ing operation, based on the preliminarydesign work completed to date.

The United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) has announcedthe availability of an estimated $10 mil-lion in grants bolstered by funds fromthe American Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act of 2009 to help communities inCalifornia clean up brownfield siteswhich may be contaminated by haz-ardous chemicals or pollutants.

The grants, which include $3.3 mil-lion from the Recovery Act and $6.8million from the EPA brownfields gen-eral program funding, help revitalize for-mer industrial and commercial sites,turning them from problem properties toproductive community use.

The grants will help to assess,clean up and redevelop abandoned, con-taminated properties known as brown-fields.

Grant recipients are selectedthrough a national competition. The pro-gram encourages development of Amer-ica’s estimated 450,000 abandoned andcontaminated waste sites.

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Odors detected at Wilson ElementarySchool of the West Allegheny School Dis-trict in Findlay Township, AlleghenyCounty, are originating from ImperialLandfill, the Department of EnvironmentalProtection has confirmed.

DEP analyzed recent sampling con-ducted by its mobile analytical laboratoryand continues to coordinate efforts withthe Allegheny County Health Department,which conducted its own sampling insideand outside Wilson School in March.

The county’s lab analysis measuredfor six Volatile Organic Compounds, orVOCs, including benzene, all of whichwere found to be below the detection lim-its. Based on these results, county officialsconcluded that the compounds were at lev-els below which one would expect to seeadverse health effects in adults and chil-dren using the facility.

As a precautionary measure, thecounty conducted eight-hour sets of char-coal tube air samples to monitor the schoolenvironment for VOCs, including benzene,for two weeks in April.

The county health departmentinstalled continuous monitoring equip-ment at Wilson School April 17 to meas-ure hydrogen sulfide, which is an indicatorof landfill gas. Currently, the data is manu-ally collected. After the school district pro-vides a dedicated communications link,the county will electronically downloadthe data. In May, the county will beginspot-check monitoring for methane.

To counter the odors, the school dis-trict installed air filters March 16 in theschool’s heating, ventilating and air condi-tioning unit.

Lab analysis of samples that werecollected by DEP on March 17 and 18 out-side the school showed that compoundsassociated with the decomposition ofwaste were detected at several monitoringpoints within the landfill and were alsopresent at Wilson School.

It is important to note that instanta-neous measurements are not indicative oflong-term, continuous exposure. The sam-ples were taken for only three days, whichis insufficient for complete air qualitymonitoring. The purpose of the testing wasto determine the source of the gases andodor-causing compounds; consequently,DEP is unable to conclusively determinehealth risks. Data resulting from ongoingmonitoring by the county will be evaluatedto assess potential health and/or safetyrisks.

The highest reading during DEP’ssampling was for methane, a gas com-monly associated with landfills, at 41,768parts per billion (ppb) - or, 41.8 parts permillion (ppm) - the morning of March 17.Since that morning was foggy, the result-ing atmospheric conditions would havecontained any gases released into the airand would cause these higher readings.Methane at this level does not present ahealth and/or safety risk.

“While monitoring continues at theschool, it is essential that the problem besolved at the source,” DEP southwestRegional Director Ken Bowman said.“Therefore, DEP and the county healthdepartment are requiring Republic Serv-ices Inc. to take the necessary measures tocontrol the gases emitted from the land-fill.”

DEP and the county are currentlynegotiating a Consent Order and Agree-ment with the landfill’s owner, RepublicServices Inc., which will specify correc-tive actions and set penalties for past andfuture violations.

In addition to the mobile lab analysis,“grab” samples were collected at 11 loca-tions in and near the landfill as well as atWilson Elementary School. These samplestentatively identified VOCs and other com-pounds common to landfills.


EventsCalendar

June 8th-9thNRRA’s 28th Annual RecyclingConference & Expo. Radisson ManchesterHotel/The Center of New Hampshire,Manchester, New Hampshire603-736-4401 • www.nrra.net

June 8th-11thWasteExpo 2009. Las Vegas ConventionCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada. 800-927-5007 • www.wasteexpo.com

June 24th-26thElectronics & Battery Recycling ’09.Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto,Canada. +41 62 785 10 00 • www.icm.ch

July 14th-15thBiomass `09: Power, Fuels, and ChemicalsWorkshop. Alerus Center, Grand Forks,North Dakota. 701-777-5246 • www.undeerc.org

August 7th-9thPennsylvania Automotive Recycling TradeSociety’s Annual Convention & TradeExpo. Sheraton Harrisburg/Hershey,Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.877-211-0266 • www.parts.org

September 16th-18th14th International Congress for BatteryRecycling - ICBR 2009. HotelInterContinental, Geneva, Switzerland.+41 62 785 10 00 • www.icm.ch

September 23rd-25th19th Annual Arkansas Recycling CoalitionConference & Trade Show. Inn of theOzarks Hotel & Convention Center, EurekaSprings, Arkansas. 866-290-1429

September 28th-30thBiopolymers Symposium 2009. EmbassySuites Downtown Lakefront, Chicago, Illinois.202-309-7296 • www.biopolymersummit.com

September 29th-October 1stThe Green Expo 2009. World Trade Center,Mexico City, Mexico. [email protected]

October 28th-29thCanadian Waste & Recycling Expo.Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre,Vancouver, British Columbia.877-534-7285 • www.cwre.ca

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Republic Services reportsfirst quarter financial results

Republic Services, Inc. reported netincome for the three months ended March31, 2009 of $113.0 million, or $.30 perdiluted share, compared to net income of$76.1 million, or $.41 per diluted share,for the same period in 2008.

The first quarter 2009 financialresults include Allied Waste Industries,Inc. (Allied) which merged with Repub-lic on December 5, 2008. Operatingincome for the three months endedMarch 31, 2009 was $353.0 millioncompared to $142.2 million for the com-parable period in 2008. Operatingincome before depreciation, amortiza-tion, depletion and accretion for thethree months ended March 31, 2009 was$598.1 million, or 29.0 percent of rev-enue compared to $220.0 million, or28.2 percent of revenue in 2008.

Revenue for the three months endedMarch 31, 2009 increased to $2,060.5

million compared to $779.2 million forthe same period in 2008. Core price forthe three months ended March 31, 2009(assuming the merger with Allied hadoccurred on January 1, 2008) increased3.5 percent.

Internal growth for the threemonths ended March 31, 2009 (assum-ing the merger with Allied had occurredon January 1, 2008) decreased 8.6 per-cent (consisting of a 3.5 percent priceincrease offset by decreases of 8.0 per-cent in core volume, 2.9 percent in com-modity prices and 1.2 percent in fuelcharges).

Republic also announced that itsboard of directors declared a regularquarterly dividend of $.19 per sharefor shareholders of record on July 1,2009. The dividend will be paid on July15, 2009.

Kansas medical center settlesallegations of waste violations

A Merriam, Kansas, hospital hasreached a settlement with the UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) over allegations that it violated var-ious provisions of the federal ResourceConservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)related to the handling and storage of haz-ardous wastes on its campus.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center,9100 West 74th Street, neither admittednor denied the allegations brought by EPARegion 7, but has agreed to pay a penaltyof $83,488 to the United States in settle-ment of the government’s claims.

The hospital has also agreed to inven-tory all solid waste streams generated byits facility and provide EPA with docu-mentation of that inventory. The hospitalwill make quarterly reports for a period ofone year, using photographs and documen-tation to show that its hazardous wastesare being properly handled.

Terms of the settlement are outlinedin a consent agreement and final orderfiled in Kansas City, Kansas. The docu-ment alleges that during a January 2007inspection, EPA found that the hospitalhad:

•Failed to conduct and documentweekly inspections of a hazardous wastecontainer storage area.

•Failed to properly mark hazardouswaste accumulation containers.

•Improperly treated paint and sol-vent hazardous wastes by allowingopened containers and solvent-soakedrags to evaporate prior to disposal, allwithout a necessary permit.

•Improperly disposed of solvent-soaked rags in general trash.

•Failed to properly label storagecontainers for used oil, and failed toproperly mark universal waste batteries.


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Atlas Copco, India, has exercised anoption to buy the remaining 75 percent ofshares in Focus Rocbit and Prisma Roc-tools. They provide complementary prod-ucts and services for rotary anddown-the-hole drilling. The acquisitionswill strengthen Atlas Copco’s position inthe market for drill bits and hammers.

Atlas Copco acquired 25 percent ofthe companies in April, 2008 and the com-panies have been operating as joint ven-tures of the Secoroc division since then.Focus is a manufacturer of bits for rotarydrilling and Prisma makes bits and ham-mers for down-the-hole drilling. They areheadquartered in Hyderabad, India.

As part of the acquisition agreement,Focus Mining Service Company, out ofCharleston, West Virginia, will continue toact as an Atlas Copco distributor, primarilyin the eastern coal markets.

Atlas Copco to acquireFocus and Prisma in India

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Krentzman Metals Corporation(KMC), a scrap broker, based in Lewis-town, Pennsylvania, with a buying officein Toronto, announced that veteran scraptrader and broker Fred Rosenfeld hasjoined the Krentzman firm in a new PortJefferson, New York office.

Rosenfeld will head the newly createdRiver Division of KMC, which will spe-cialize in the domestic and export sales offerrous and copper-bearing scrap materialsand usable metal products.

Veteran scrap trader FredRosenfeld joins Krentzman

Russ Halvorsen returned to HallcoIndustries, Inc. after a 7-year hiatus.

Halvorsen will hold the same posi-tion of general manager that he held for12 years prior to the split.

Halvorsen returns asHallco’s general manager

The Carpet America RecoveryEffort (CARE) released figures for 2008that show a reduction in the recyclingand diversion of post-consumer carpet,compared to 2007 levels.

CARE’s 2008 Annual Report, pre-sented at the organization’s annual con-ference, showed that 243.4 millionpounds of post-consumer carpet wererecycled and 292.4 million pounds werediverted from landfills in 2008. Thesefigures represent an 11.4 percentdecrease in recycling and a .8 percentdecrease in diversion compared to 2007.

However, according to CARE boardchairman Frank Hurd, the decrease wasless than expected by the group, espe-cially in light of profoundly negativebusiness results reported by other indus-tries in 2008, and given the tough eco-nomic environment currently faced byUnited States businesses.

CARE releases annualcarpet recycling report

Ron Gonen, co-founder and CEO ofRecycleBank, is the recipient of the2009 United Nations Environment Pro-gramme (UNEP) Champion of the Earthaward in the Entrepreneurial Vision cate-gory. Gonen is one of only seven hon-orees to earn the prestigious distinctionthis year and will be recognized at a spe-cial international ceremony held in con-junction with the Business for theEnvironment Summit (B4E) in Paris.

Champions of the Earth is an inter-national environmental award estab-lished in 2004 by the UNEP toacknowledge the best and brightest whohave made a significant contributionglobally, regionally and beyond, to theprotection and sustainable managementof the earth’s environment and naturalresources.

This year’s award recognizes promi-nent and inspirational examples ofenvironmental leadership in the areasof Policy Leadership, Science and Inno-vation, Entrepreneurial Vision, Inspira-tion and Action, and Next-GenerationChampions.

Gonen was chosen for his environ-mental leadership as co-founder of Recy-cleBank. RecycleBank recycling carts areoutfitted with RFID tags and Recycle-Bank uses a proprietary technology torecord and translate the amount eachhome recycles into RecycleBank Pointsthat can be used to shop at over 1,400local and national businesses.

RecycleBank’s Ron Gonenreceives award

Company Wrench, headquartered inCarroll, Ohio, has acquired the demoli-tion and scrap metal recycling assets ofInterstate Equipment Co. of LexingtonKentucky. Growing in a down marketthrough acquisition has become Com-pany Wrench’s focus.

Through this agreement, CompanyWrench will market its specialty demoli-tion and scrap processing products in Ken-tucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition,Company Wrench has recently establishedbranch locations in Columbia, South Car-olina and Pasco, Washington.

Company Wrenchcompletes acquisition

Verenium Corporation announcedthe appointment of James E. Levine tothe position of executive vice presidentand chief financial officer. Levine willreport directly to Carlos A. Riva, Vere-nium’s president and chief executiveofficer.

Prior to joining Verenium, Levineheld various positions with GoldmanSachs & Co., most recently as a manag-ing director in the Power and UtilitiesGroup in New York. Prior to that, he wasa managing director in the Energy Groupin London. The majority of his tenure atGoldman Sachs & Co. centered oninvestment banking in the oil and gasindustries, with a particular focus on therefining and marketing sectors.

Verenium appoints Levineexecutive VP and CEO


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Deltalok announced the addition ofRobert Race, P.E. to its managementteam in the capacity of director of engi-neering services for Deltalok USA.

Race comes to Deltalok with over 20years of expertise in the design, testing,implementation, marketing, training andsales of retaining wall systems for civilengineering applications. His workincludes senior management roles at Mil-lenia Retaining Walls, Keystone RetainingWall Systems, The Tensar Corporation andStone & Webster Engineering. He holds aBachelor of Science degree from CornellUniversity and master’s degrees from Pur-due University and Georgia College.

Deltalok USA expandsmanagement team

SiCon America opened a new salesand consulting office for the Americas inVenice, Florida. Norb Geiss has joinedSiCon GmbH.

Geiss will be representing SiConAmerica, and their equipment partners,to provide innovative recycling solutionsthat implement custom-tailored turnkeymetal recovery and greener ASR recy-cling systems.

Geiss held many management posi-tions during his 30 years in the shredding,metals separation, used auto part andsales/administrative functions of TheDavid J. Joseph Company, in the UnitedStates and Europe.

Norb Geiss joins SiConAmerica in Florida office

Harsco Corporation announced theappointment of Galdino Claro as the newCEO of its global Harsco Metals businessgroup, effective June 1, 2009. Claro willbe directly responsible for more than 160locations in over 30 countries employingapproximately 11,500 people.

Claro comes to Harsco with nearly 30years of executive leadership experiencein the worldwide metals industry, includ-ing 20 years as an international opera-tions executive within Alcoa Inc. wherehe led the strategic growth of operationsin the Asia-Pacific, European and LatinAmerican regions. He joins Harsco fromAleris International Inc., a Texas PacificGroup company and a global leader in thealuminum rolling and recycling indus-tries, where he served as CEO of AlerisAmericas.

Prior to Aleris, Claro was the presi-dent and CEO of the metals processinggroup of Heico Companies LLC, aChicago-based firm specializing in acquir-ing underperforming companies and grow-ing them into industry leaders.

Claro will be based in the UnitedStates, heading up a new global headquar-ters organization for Harsco Metals thatwill oversee the group’s regional head-quarters throughout the world. He will beresponsible for executing a number of keystrategies of the Company includingemerging market growth, as well as cus-tomer and market diversification. He willreport to Geoffrey D. H. Butler, who asHarsco’s president and member of theCompany’s Board of Directors will con-tinue his overall responsibilities for theCompany’s operations and strategic busi-ness objectives.

Harsco names CEO forHarsco Metals group

Norcal Waste Systems has formallychanged its corporate name to Recology.

The name is rooted in the company’s89 year heritage as one of the nation’s firsturban recyclers.

Recology has relocated to a GoldLEED-designed corporate office in down-town San Francisco. Environmentally, thenew office space will achieve the highestperformance certification practical in thisbuilding, saving energy, water and money.

Norcal Waste Systemschanges corporate name

Great West Equipment, of BritishColumbia, Canada, recently signed on asan exclusive dealer of Morbark recy-cling, forestry and tree care equipment.Great West has been serving the forestryand construction industries for 22 years.

Formerly Marcels Equipment, Ltd.,Great West Equipment also offers VolvoConstruction Equipment, used equipment,parts and service. They serve the provinceof British Columbia with nine locations:Campbell River, Cranbrook, Fort St. John,Kamloops, Nanaimo, Prince George, Van-couver, Vernon and Williams Lake.

Morbark and Great WestEquipment join forces

Stefan Brosick has been promotedto director of global product strategy forDoosan Infracore International. Theappointment was made by Scott Nelson,chief executive officer, Doosan InfracoreInternational.

In his new role, Brosick will beresponsible for supporting the globaldevelopment of Doosan Infracore Inter-national product strategy, workingclosely with regional product strategyleaders.

Brosick brings marketing and busi-ness development experience to his newposition, having held marketing andbusiness analyst roles with BobcatEurope and Ingersoll Rand, as well asintegration leader for marketing andsales for the Geith acquisition and prod-uct manager for DII Attachments busi-nesses.

Most recently, Brosick served asindustry marketing manager for DoosanInfracore Portable Power in Statesville,North Carolina. Before joining IngersollRand in 2005, he was an independentowner-operator of a contracting businessfor seven years.

Brosick to direct productstrategy for Doosan

Harsco Corporation announced theappointment of Galdino Claro as thenew CEO of its global Harsco Metalsbusiness group, effective June 1, 2009.Claro will be directly responsible formore than 160 locations in over 30 coun-tries employing approximately 11,500people.

Claro comes to Harsco with nearly30 years of executive leadership experi-ence in the worldwide metals industry,including 20 years as an internationaloperations executive within Alcoa Inc.where he led the strategic growth ofoperations in the Asia-Pacific, Europeanand Latin American regions. He joinsHarsco from Aleris International Inc., aTexas Pacific Group company and aglobal leader in the aluminum rollingand recycling industries, where heserved as CEO of Aleris Americas.

Prior to Aleris, Claro was the presi-dent and CEO of the metals processinggroup of Heico Companies LLC, aChicago-based firm specializing inacquiring underperforming companiesand growing them into industry leaders.

Claro will be based in the UnitedStates, heading up a new global headquar-ters organization for Harsco Metals thatwill oversee the group’s regional head-quarters throughout the world. He will beresponsible for executing a number of keystrategies of the Company includingemerging market growth, as well as cus-tomer and market diversification. He willreport to Geoffrey D. H. Butler, who asHarsco’s president and member of theCompany’s Board of Directors will con-tinue his overall responsibilities for theCompany’s operations and strategic busi-ness objectives.

Harsco names CEO forHarsco Metals group

ROUND2 Inc. has announced theacquisition of PolymerCycle LLC, anational processor and reseller ofplastics, including ABS, PC/ABS, HIPSand PC.

The acquisition complementsROUND2’s strategy to deliver a closed-loop recycling solution for processingeWaste.

Effective immediately, PolymerCy-cle will operate as a wholly-owned com-pany from ROUND2’s 183,000 squarefoot facility in the Dallas/Fort WorthMetroplex, the largest electronics recy-cling facility in Texas.

EPA research indicates 18 percentof the 2.25 million tons of e-waste in theUnited States was recycled in 2007.With an EPA estimated 140 million TVsand computer monitors in storage, thereis an impending avalanche of plasticbyproduct waiting to be recovered.ROUND2 is positioned to assist clientsand municipalities properly manage thispotentially large flow of material.

ROUND2 Inc. acquiresPolymerCycle LLC

Primary Energy Recycling Corpora-tion announced that a cash distributionof Cdn$ 0.06667 per enhanced incomesecurity (EIS) of the company will bepaid on June 30, 2009 to holders ofrecord on May 29, 2009.

Each EIS consists of one commonshare and a subordinated note with parvalue of Cdn$ 2.50 which pays interest ata rate of 11.75 percent per annum. TheEISs trade on the Toronto Stock Exchangeunder the symbol PRI.UN. The total distri-bution of Cdn$ 0.06667 per EIS reflects acash distribution of Cdn$ 0.04219 percommon share and an interest payment ofCdn$ 0.02448 per subordinated note forthe period from May 1 to May 31, 2009.

Primary Energy Recyclingdeclares cash distribution

Enerkem, a waste-to-biofuels technol-ogy company, announced that EnerkemGreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB) hascompleted the necessary environmentalregulatory process and has been granted apermit to commence construction of acommercial facility to produce biofuelsand green chemicals from sorted munici-pal solid waste in Edmonton, Alberta.

The permit was granted by AlbertaEnvironment under the EnvironmentalProtection and Enhancement Act of theProvince of Alberta.

In 2008, EGAB entered into a 25-year agreement with the City of Edmon-ton to build and operate awaste-to-biofuels facility on municipalland and to receive the City’s sortedmunicipal solid waste as feedstock. TheCity of Edmonton will supply 100,000tons of sorted municipal solid waste peryear. The sorted municipal solid waste tobe used is the end-waste after recyclingand composting. These residues wouldotherwise be landfilled.

Construction of the biofuels facilityis expected to begin by the end of 2009,at a total cost of approximately CDN$70million.

Enerkem awarded permitto build biofuels facility


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Mohawk Lifts introduces height adjustable screwtype lift pads. Mohawk’s adjustable screw pads areavailable for all 7,000 to 20,000 lb. capacity two-postvehicle lifts.

The adjustable screw pads are available in rubberor steel top pads and give at least an additional 3” offine pad adjustment.

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Rayco’s new line of compact horizontal grinderscreates an affordable solution to your waste-woodneeds. Now available as either towable or self pro-pelled on a steel tracked undercarriage, Rayco’sRH1754 is a mobile, compact machine designed togrind pallets, brush, green-waste, lumber scraps andconstruction debris while minimizing the expense andhassle of larger units.

Their low fuel consumption keeps operating costs ata minimum, yet their high productivity rates will matchthat of machines costing nearly twice as much.

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SAFETY COMES FIRST WITHNEW SENNEBOGEN D SERIES

Sennebogen LLC introduces its line of 835 and 840D Series purpose-built material handlers. The new linecomes equipped with emissions-compliant CumminsTier III engines.

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MCCLOSKEY INTERNATIONALR105 HIGH ENERGY SCREENER

McCloskey International unveiled their R105 HighEnergy Screener. Like the larger R155, the R105 isdesigned to handle throughput for a large range ofrock, quarry, C&D and soil products and tips thescales at almost 50,700 lbs.

Offering a stockpile height of 11’9” and a screeningarea of 12’ x 4’6”, the screener has been specificallydesigned for operators who do not require the fullcapacity of the larger model.

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The set is available in all MT tool sizes, rangingfrom model MTR 5 to 180 (800-52,000 lbs.)

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“Recycled markets are not sustain-able at prices we saw last summer, andthey are not sustainable at the prices wesaw in November and December. Thatwas historically very high and histori-cally very low,” said Marc Forman,president of Harmon Associates LLC, aGeorgia-Pacific company and one ofthe largest buyers and sellers of recy-cled fiber in the world. The companysources secondary fiber for Georgia-Pacific’s recovered fiber mill system, aswell as for other global customers. Har-mon has been in the wastepaper busi-ness for 40 years and trades approxi-mately 7 million tons per year. “So,prices will ultimately migrate to wherethey have traded in the past, within aband. Do we believe that prices will besustained at current levels? No. It’simpossible for anyone to predict whendemand will come back, but when itdoes there’s likely to be a shortage ofsupply which will spike prices up. Wewill recover and find our way back towhere prices have historically traded,”said Forman.

According to AF&PA, exports rep-resented 38 percent of all paper recov-ered through recycling during 2008with China taking the lion’s share, 11.6million tons of the 19.5 million tonsexported to all countries. China alsoimported recovered paper from Europeand Japan, but United States exportsprovided the majority. For 2008, theU.S. Department of Commerce estimat-

ed the value of all American recoveredpaper exports to all countries at nearly$2.96 billion.

China recovers some paper internal-ly, but it is such a large exporter of pack-aged goods that demand for paper farexceeds the country’s domestic produc-

tion. Chinese recovered paper demanddecreased dramatically during late 2008due to excess inventory build-up earlier inthe year and the worldwide recession,which drastically cut China’s manufactur-ing output and negatively affected the

Recovered paper inrecovering marketsby MIKE [email protected] and can recyclers in New

York are expanding their operations andhiring new employees following changesto the state’s beverage container depositlaw.

The state’s Returnable ContainerAct – commonly referred to as the “Bot-tle Bill” – now requires a $.05 depositfor water bottles in addition to carbonat-ed soft drinks, beer and other malt bever-age containers after legislators amendedthe law this spring.

“This will have a huge impact onredemption centers across the state,”said Sheila Rivers, chairperson of theBottle and Can Redemption Associationin New York. Rivers is also the owner ofEZ Bottle and Can Return in Fairport,New York. She said that centers like herswill be investing in new equipment andexpanding their facilities.

“We will be growing, expanding,and new redemption centers will beopening. We will be creating hundreds,if not thousands of new jobs,” Riverssaid. There are currently more than 300private and non-profit redemption cen-ters in the state.

The expanded bottle bill alsoincreases the handling fee for recyclingbottles and cans from $.02 to $.035 centsper container. Rivers said that theincrease is critical to the survival of theredemption centers and will enable recy-clers to hire new workers to handle theexpected increase in returns. There hasnot been an increase since 1997.

The first major revision of thestate’s deposit law since it was created in1982 also requires beverage companiesto return 80 percent of the unclaimedbottle and can deposits to the state. Thisis expected to generate $115 million forthe state’s general fund for this fiscalyear. The remaining 20 percent will bekept by the beverage industry.

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A Letter fromthe EditorDear readers,

Welcome to this month’s doublefocus on papers and plastics. Muchlike the grocery store (paper or plas-tic?), you can choose which news toperuse, but I promise it’s all good.

Since we only have so manymonths in a year, American Recycleris consolidating commodities wherewe can so that important topics allreceive special coverage. We’veattempted to group those that com-plement each other, and I thinkyou’ll find that we’ve struck a goodbalance this month between our plas-tics and papers news coverage.

But the news is more than justwritten well – it’s positive too. Plas-tics prices seem to be stabilizing, andpossibly even inching up a wee bit.Paper prices are creeping backupwards as well. Are prices going toreturn to the heights from which theyplummeted any time soon? Probablynot, but hey – at least the marketsseem to have plumbed the bottomand are coming back.

Does that mean it’s time to cashin on that huge pile of AmericanRecycler back issues that have beenpiling up in your office? Of coursenot! A few extra bucks a ton is greatnews, but it’s hardly worth losing allof the vital salvage, waste and recy-cling news and photos that AmericanRecycler provides.

I mean, sure all that informationis available online at our website.But like a library of old books con-fers an air of learning, a library ofold copies of AR lets the world knowthat you’re a reader of the industry’spremier publication, and that youknow what you’re about.

So keep those back issues. Neat-ly arrange them on your shelves inchronological order (for those whoskipped collecting old books, that’sordered by date and time), and keepthem well dusted (so people can seethat you reference them often).

I guarantee that you’ll notice animmediate increase in the amount ofrespect that industry people affordyou.

But regardless of whether or notyou plan to keep this issue for poster-ity, I hope you enjoy it now. We’vegot some great articles in both theMain and the Focus Sections for youto read about all the news that mat-ters to you.

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House of Representatives Democ-rats have put forth two bills for consider-ation aimed at reducing pollution causedby beverage containers and disposableplastic bags widely used by grocerystores across the nation.

The Bottle Recycling Climate Pro-tection Act, first introduced in 2007, wasreintroduced by Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.). It aimsto establish a $.05 deposit on plastic bot-tles and other beverage containersnationwide.

The 11 states with deposit lawsalready on the books would be exemptfrom the national legislation for 3 years,or so long as their recycling rates remainabove 50 percent.

Though the initiative is lauded byenvironmental groups like the ContainerRecycling Institute, some see the bill asjust another tax, while others see it asunnecessary, citing that water bottles arealready a highly recycled item as meas-ured by curbside recycling.

Also introduced by Moran was thePlastic Bag Reduction Act of 2009. Itwould establish a $.05 tax per single-usebag effective January 1, 2010. The taxwould increase to $.25 per bag in 2015.The tax would cover bags from grocery,dry-cleaning, take-out food, and othersingle use applications.

The plastic bag tax would be used tofund multiple programs. Retailers imple-menting the program would receive aone cent tax credit. The Land and WaterConservation Fund would receive a one-cent allocation for pollution control, andanother cent would be distributed tostate and local trash reduction programs.The final two cents would be used to paydown the national debt.

Nationwidebottle legislationproposed in New York, the state is anticipating a

boost in recycling. “There will be a sig-nificant increase in the number of bever-age containers requiring a deposit,” saidVal Washington, deputy commissionerfor remediation and materials manage-ment with the New York State Depart-ment of Environmental Conservation.

“In addition to directing all of thesewater bottles into the recycling stream,the deposit will also result in a signifi-cant reduction in litter.” The state esti-mates that in the 27 years that the bottlebill has been in existence it has reducedroadside litter by 70 percent, recycled 90billion containers, and saved more than52 million barrels of oil.

Environmentalists are also praisingthe addition of water bottles to thestate’s deposit law. “This expansion cov-ers about 70 percent of the containers wewere looking to cover,” said SaimaAnjam, a program associate at Environ-mental Advocates of New York. She saidher group was hoping the addition wouldinclude all non-carbonated beverages.But it only covers water, nutritionally-enhanced and flavored waters.

Before the expansion of New York’sdeposit law, less than 20 percent ofwater bottles were recycled in the state,according to estimates by Laura Haight,senior environmental associate at theNew York Public Interest ResearchGroup. “With the expansion of thestate’s bottle bill we expect the recyclingrate to triple or quadruple,” Haight said,noting that return rates for bottle billsaverage just under 70 percent.

Haight said that she expects othersstates will follow New York’s lead andinclude water bottles in their depositprograms. “New York is a very largestate and it is going to cause a rippleeffect throughout the industry,” she said.“It is certainly energizing advocates inother states that are working to eithercreate or expand bottle bills.”

Eleven states have bottle bills.While some include water, like Maine,Hawaii, Oregon and California, othersdo not, like Iowa and Michigan. Con-necticut expanded its bottle bill to covernon-carbonated water earlier this spring.

Bottled water in Connecticut now carriesa $.05 deposit and unclaimed depositsare now returned to the state.

“The details of the different lawsare quite different. But I think this isshowing that states with bottle laws arerecognizing the need of updating theirlaws to reflect the public’s current drink-ing habits,” Haight said. “Many timesthe strongest environmental laws getpassed first by states and are then thetipping point for national action.”

The Sonoma, California-based tradegroup, the National Association for PETContainer Resources, takes a neutralstand on bottle bills. “We support any-thing that will bring bottles back fromthe waste stream,” said Dennis Sabourin,executive director. “But we don’t specif-ically support water bottles. We feel thatit is part of an overall program thatwould include drop offs, curbside collec-tion programs, and of course bottlebills.”

Since there are currently a numberof different plans to include water bot-tles in bottles bills across the countrythat are being considered by state legis-latures, the United States could end upwith a different recycling system foreach state, Sabourin said.

Therefore, a national bill might bean option to consider. “Could it be some-thing that would give a uniform systemand something where all stakeholderscould weigh in on the issue to make surethat it is the best compromise for allstakeholders? There is something to besaid about that,” he said, again stressinghis group’s neutral stance.

Other trade groups are opposed tobottle bills. The International BottledWater Association, based in Alexandria,Virginia, claims bottle bills create disin-centives for curbside recycling efforts bygiving consumers a financial incentivenot to put their empty bottles into curb-side recycling and forcing them to returnbottles to stores.

The American Beverage Associa-tion, based in Washington D.C., alsoopposes efforts, like in New York, toexpand bottle bills. “In an economy likethis, the last thing government should bedoing is raising taxes,” the group said ina statement. The trade group estimatesthe New York deposit fee equals a 25percent sales tax on water.

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New York hopes that new water bottle legislation will increase the recovery rate of plastic bottles as well ascreate new jobs in the soon to be busier redemption centers.


Peninsula Packaging, LLC usesthe equivalent of 1.2 billion plasticbottles annually in its production ofplastic packaging at its plants inExeter, California and Raleigh, NorthCarolina.

The firm, based in Exeter, uses #1plastic exclusively and is a major pur-chaser of flake on the west coast.

Nearly 50 percent of the materialused to make plastic is flake and thecompany is seeking to increase thatpercentage.

“Why are we not 100 percent?”asked Ed Byrne, Peninsula’s generalmanager. “It is because the infrastruc-ture doesn’t exist to clean bottles andget the feedstock to us. This year wewill buy a little over 40 millionpounds of recycled materials.”

Lower prices for plastic recy-clables have not translated into anincreased supply of flake for industry.

“There is still a limited availabili-ty,” said Byrne, who is disappointedthat the washing capacity has notexpanded to ensure that the increasedamount of materials can be washed toremove labels and grime and beturned into flake for a guaranteedindustrial demand. “Baled bottles sitaround and are stacked up every-where.”

Asked why the washing infra-structure has not expanded, Byrnegave his take on the situation in Cali-fornia.

“There are huge political forcesthat have prevented the building ofmore capacity,” he said. “There ismoney within the state to enhancerecycling that comes from the bottledeposit system. Not all that moneygets refunded and that money is sup-posed to be used for the enhancementof recycling.

“What has happened is that theDepartment of Conservation [DOC]has awarded a number of contracts topeople to put in washing lines andthen they don’t do it,” he added. “Sofor us who think about putting in awash line on our own, there is just noway you can do that with the concernthat you are going to compete withsomeone next year that is a state-fund-ed facility. The good intentions of theDOC towards these grants have servedthe purpose of preventing additionalwash lines in the state.”

Byrne estimates that a wash facil-ity costs between $15 and $20 millionto build, and as such, has tried to dohis part to increase flake supply.

“We have invested money andloaned money to people who makeflake,” he said.

But Byrne does appreciate Cali-fornia’s role in promoting the use offlake, especially the incentive pro-gram that pays manufacturers thatproduce flake and industrial users.

“It’s a tremendously successfulprogram,” he said. “Other states do it,but California is the leader. The fundsare full circle funds.”

Peninsula owns the largest pri-vately-developed solar power generat-ing station in California, producingmore than 2 million kilowatt hours peryear.

“Our original intent was to posi-tion ourselves so that we had a lowcost power source over the long-haul,”said Byrne, who noted that solar alsohelps to reduce the effects of voltagedrops that affect the California electri-cal grid.

Ninety percent of Peninsula’sproducts are manufactured in Califor-nia. The North Carolina site was cho-sen for its proximity to customers.That plant uses 20 percent recycledflake. Byrne is hoping to increase thatpercentage soon.

He is also aware that, like carpetmanufacturers and other users, hisfirm cannot get enough recycled #1flake and would support a governmentrequired message asking consumers torecycle their plastic bottles and con-tainers to increase the supply.

Asked who gets the limited sup-ply of recycled flake first, Byrnereplied, “whoever pays the most.”

In addition, he said, because theplastic used in the creation of plasticcomes exclusively from petroleum,every bottle recycled into flake helpsto reduce the amount of oil consumedin the States.

The firm also does what it can toreduce the weight of its product.“From an economic standpoint it justmakes sense,” said Byrne.

The American Chemistry Council(ACC), in its 18th annual Post-Con-

sumer Plastics Bottle RecyclingReport, announced that plastic bottlerecycling by consumers increased by115 million pounds in 2007, anincrease of 5.2 percent, to reach arecord high of 2.3 billion pounds forthe year. It was found that PET bottlescollected increased by 124 millionpounds; HDPE bottles collecteddecreased by 7.5 million pounds to920.6 million pounds, reflectingdecreases in bottle weight due to lightweighting and the shift to using con-centrated laundry products; andpolypropylene bottle recycling totaled17.6 million pounds.

The report also confirmed a con-tinuing increase in the pounds of bot-tles collected for recycling each yearsince the industry survey began in1990.

The recycling rate for plastic bot-tles rose slightly, but generally hasremained constant, hovering at around24 percent for the last several years.

“Plastics recycling continues togrow because people recognize thatplastics are a valuable resource,” said

Steve Russell, managing director forACC’s Plastics Division.

Over the last year, ACC has part-nered with the California Departmentof Parks and Recreation and the non-profit Keep California Beautiful toplace over 500 recycling bins at 19locations along the California coast,and it recently expanded its partner-ship efforts by teaming up with theCalifornia Department of Transporta-tion, which will start placing recy-cling bins at heavily-trafficked reststops this year.

“These numbers show us that con-sumers are increasingly interested inrecycling plastic bottles,” said SteveAlexander, executive director of Post-consumer Plastic Recyclers. “Valuablerecycled plastic materials go on tobecome useful products, such as newbottles, carpeting, fleece jackets, anddurable outdoor lumber.”

In terms of barriers to increasedplastic bottle recycling, the ACCnoted that too many consumers con-tinue to be unaware of the significantusefulness, demand and value of recy-cled plastic HDPE and PET.

According to the ACC report,“Data and experience show that plas-tic bottle recycling can be increasedthrough sustained local educationcampaigns. Municipalities also needto understand that they too can benefitfrom the high prices being paid forbales of bottles, including revenuesharing to fund educational programsand other costs of collection.

“Another barrier is lack of suffi-cient access to recycling collectionopportunities for products used awayfrom home,” added the report. “Con-sumer data continue to show that thepublic wants additional opportunitiesto be able to recycle at public venues,offices, recreational sites, schools andretail establishments. In 2007 theAssociation of Postconsumer PlasticRecyclers conducted workshops andwebinars for municipal recyclingcoordinators to educate them on theexisting markets for baled bottles, the

Plastic flake supply doesn’t meet demandby IRWIN [email protected]

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“Why are we not 100 per-cent? It is because the

infrastructure doesn’t existto clean bottles and get

the feedstock to us.”–Ed Byrne

Bales of bottles like these sit around in stacks due to a lack of washing capacity. Washing capacity hasfailed to grow quickly, despite a high industrial demand for flake.

Clean, recycled plastics are in short supply for those that wish to include them in their products. What sup-ply there is goes to whomever is willing to pay the most.

In 2007 the United States recy-cling industry reprocessed 576,000tons of plastic bottles, according to theInstitute of Scrap Recycling Industries(ISRI). But, as plastics recyclersknow, that doesn’t mean recyclingplastic is easy or simple. Plastic bot-tles may be made of any of several dif-ferent types of material, including theplastics known by the acronyms PET,HDPE, PVC and others. That’s a prob-

lem, because to efficiently process sal-vaged plastics requires that the streambe sorted by type as well as color. Andthat’s where plastics separation sys-tems come into play.

At National Recovery Technolo-gies, Inc. in Nashville, engineeringmanager John Thomsen said one ofthe oldest and most persistent chal-lenges in separating the different typesof plastics is maintaining consistencyin the way the material is prepared andpresented to the sorting systems. “Inthese fast-acting machines, you can’thave 100 lbs. of material show up inone short time interval, followed byanother interval of zero material,” saidThomsen. “It’s always been an issueand it’s one that we still have toaddress.”

Separating interlocked material,such as when two plastic bottles ofdifferent types are crushed together,presents another difficult problem.Much progress has been made, howev-er, in cleaning bottles and otherobjects prior to sorting. That’s impor-tant because dirt can foil sorting tech-nologies that use optical detection.

National Recovery Technologiesuses X-rays in some applications.These are less affected by dirt. Forinstance, its VinylCycle systems sepa-rate polyvinyl chloride from a mixedstream of whole or crushed plastic

bottles of HDPE, PET and PVC. Thesystems are designed to process up to10 bottles per second, employing pre-cision air jets to eject selected bottlesfrom the feed stream.

National Recovery Technologies’Multisort IR uses infrared sensing todetect specific polymers within amixed stream of material. Also usingair ejectors, it can achieve throughputrates of more than 10,000 lbs. perhour.

Its Multisort ES identifies materi-als by color, sorting bottles over a

wide range of colors,tints, and transparencies.It can sort PET bottlesby color, even separatingout very lightly tintedbottles, as well as sort-ing PET from HDPE andnatural from coloredHDPE. It has throughputrates of up to 11,000 lbs.per hour.

National RecoveryTechnologies has longsold to second-stage sep-

arating applications where plastics aresorted just before being reclaimed.Recently, Thomsen has seen moreinterest from customers in generalwaste separation such as municipalrecycling facilities. Overall, he said,demand has remained healthy. “It’ssurprisingly good, considering theworrisome stories I hear from peoplein other businesses,” he said. “Weseem to be doing okay now.”

At SiCon America in Venice,Florida, representative Norb Geisssaid the company’s polyfloat technolo-gy employs different fluid densities toseparate plastics according to theirdensity and produce 99 percent pure

separation at yields of more than 98percent. “We build units up to 12,000lbs. per hour which are turnkey andinclude storage, feeding, drying and

electronic control,” said Geiss. “Wecan work with different densities toseparate different grades of plastics.”SiCon polyfloat systems are deliveredas turnkey installations and includemeasures for preparing and drying thematerials. They can be used for anyhard plastics, as well as for films.

SiCon’s most popular applicationsinclude separating plastics fromhousehold appliances and shredderresidue as well as commercial plastics.Electronic scrap processing representsa growing market. “Increasing landfillcost and take-back regulations forelectric/electronic devices are anadvantage for our business,” Geisssaid. The United States is a developingmarket for SiCon, which is based inGermany. “We are looking forward tosupporting the introduction ofpolyfloat into the US market,” Geisssaid.

At Magnetic Separation Systems,Inc. (MSS) in Nashville, sales directorFelix Hottenstein said the companyoffers two types of separators for plas-tics. Its Sapphire module separatesspecific plastic resins or mixed plas-tics, as well as paper, from a materialsstream. The company said typicalremoval efficiency is greater than 80percent, while product purity exceeds90 percent. Using a proprietary sensorto identify plastics, the Sapphire usesan upward firing air ejection toremove plastics from the stream. “Inplastics processors like PET sortingplans, the Aladdin is normally thechoice, because they need to sort outthe green PET bottles from the clearPET bottles as well as remove PVCbottles,” Hottenstein said.

MSS’s Aladdin sorts material byplastic type and also by color. It can

create three output streamsfrom one input. TheAladdin incorporates bothfull spectrum color andnear infrared detection in asingle sensor, and employstransflectance sensing tosort transparent andopaque objects at the sametime. The Aladdin has acapacity of four to six tonsper hour.

Magnetic SeparationSystems’ newest machine

is its E-Sort unit, which is for elec-tronics scrap. That equipment address-es some of the specific challengeswith separating plastic and other mate-

rials from e-scrap. For instance, elec-tronics scrap is usually much smallerin size, so it requires significantlyhigher resolution than for bottle sort-ing. “The technology is somewhatsimilar, but it has higher resolution,”said Hottenstein.

Another difference is the largernumber of polymers that must bedetected and sorted in e-scrap in addi-tion to the usual PET, PVC and HDPEused in bottles. “On the electronicscrap side, there’s a whole variety ofplastics that come into play,” Hotten-stein said. “So it’s quite a bit moretricky.”

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Both domestic and internationaldemand for scrap paper is a leading eco-nomic indicator. Nearly every consumerand industrial product incorporates recov-ered fiber in one form or another, whetherin packaging or in related printed infor-mation. When consumer spending slumpsso does the demand for recovered paper.

“Last January we saw the economicdownturn moving aggressively forward,coupled by the fact that domestic papermills started to close plants for annualshutdowns and some remain closed forextended periods,” said Wes Muir, direc-tor of corporate communications at WasteManagement (WM), the largest residen-tial recycler in North America. “We sawslowdowns from foreign paper mills,specifically in China, India and SouthAmerica, which over the previous fiveyears had been sucking up a lot of paperout of North America and driving updemand and prices.

“There’s still very weak demanddomestically across the spectrum ofgrades. In some grades we are seeingsteady demand from export markets. It’shard to say that it’s increasing demand butit’s certainly steady demand,” said For-man. “Prices in general are being influ-enced by a lack of generation in the states.So as the economy pulls back there’s lesspaper coming out. With supply down andas demand increases, it puts pressure onprices to rise. We are seeing that especial-ly in the corrugated markets,” he added.

Wes Muir at WM had this to say:“We had large paper inventories for awhile, but we were fortunate because wewere moving a lot of our inventorythrough. In late 2008, we were doingsome temporary storage of materialsbecause the drop in price had been soprecipitous. By the end of January andthe beginning of February we had prettymuch moved a lot of our material out ofstorage and reduced our backlog. We’veseen a slight uptick in prices of materialssince about January.” As a result of theslowdown, WM has cut back on shifts,but has had few layoffs to date.

Of all the grades, old newsprint andgroundwood grades that go into newsprintmanufacturing have been hit the hardest,and are off as much as 30 to 40 percent.

Prices for recovered paper must con-tinue to rise or governments will have topump in stimulus dollars, tax incentivesor grants in order to maintain a healthyrecycling infrastructure. With curbsiderecycling programs becoming less prof-itable, local governments are beingforced to re-examine their programs asthey struggle to balance budgets. Recy-cling not only keeps these materials outof landfills, but also makes a positivecontribution to papermaking by continu-ously building up a renewable supply offibers that can be recycled over and overagain, thereby significantly reducing thenumber of trees harvested.

Cities and towns that had been earn-ing income from recovered paper andother recyclables to support recyclinginfrastructure and fund other programshave been hurt badly. Midland Park, New

Jersey, for example, with a populationjust under 7,000, is a microcosm of whatis happening across the country due to thedrop in commodity prices. Last Decem-ber the town’s recycling vendor wasacquired by another company thatannounced that rather than pay for recy-clables, it would start charging the townto haul it away – $5 a ton for corrugated,paper and co-mingled. Fortunately, thetown had no contract, and found a newvendor that would pay $5 per ton forpaper and haul away the commingled atno charge. “In 2008, our total incomestream for recyclables, including scrapmetal, were $79,000. For 2009, we proj-ect that stream to drop to approximately$9,000,” said Michelle Dugan, boroughadministrator. “There are some positivethings happening and I’m always the eter-nal optimist.” She referred to the NewJersey Recycling Enhancement Act, athree dollar per ton grant which wasrecently reinstated that will be paid tomunicipalities to encourage recycling.

“Where we have long term commer-cial and municipal contracts, we are prettymuch sheltered from commodity pricefluctuations,” said Muir at WM. “Where ithurts a lot of municipalities are those whodidn’t have long term contracts and wereheavily weighted to spot market prices.”

“It used to be that recyclers wouldpay governments for these goods,” saidBruce Savage at the Institute of ScrapRecycling Industries. “But now govern-ments have to pay recyclers. What wasonce a revenue stream is now an expense.”

The best strategy for communities tomaximize income from recycled paper ingood times and hedge against spendingmoney in down markets is producingconsistently robust, separate, cleanstreams. A model is Orange County SolidWaste Management (OCSWM) in NorthCarolina that recently won AF&PA’s2009 Community Recycling Award. For22 years this county has been aggressive-ly promoting recycling, and the effort haspaid off. “We are doing okay for tworeasons. One, we accumulated creditswith our paper broker during the highprices last summer and fall. When theprices dipped below zero we were ableto work against that money. Our othersaving grace is that we provide high

quality. What goes in our paper bins hasa very low contamination rate,” saidBlair Pollock, solid waste planner forOCSWM.

Orange County (population of128,000) is lucky to have a highly educat-ed, highly motivated community with aninterest in environmental activity – hometo UNC Chapel Hill, the flagship schoolof the University of North Carolina.

OCSWM has curbside pickup of twostreams, commingled (cans and bottles)and mixed paper, but has enlisted publiccooperation to keep old cardboard andcorrugated (OCC) out of garbage. In fact,if OCC is visible in garbage it is notpicked up and the collector leaves behinda message as to why. OCC is picked upwith mixed paper weekly in town andbiweekly in rural areas. It can be either inthe mixed paper bin, or larger pieces mustbe cut down to 3 x 3 foot, limited to tenpieces a time and be placed next to themixed paper bin.

Aside from deploying lots of wellmarked recycle bins throughout the coun-ty, they have a full time staffer to promoterecycling and waste reduction. At each often drop-off centers, eight cubic-yarddumpsters with elongated slots for OCCkeep it segregated from newspapers,magazines and mixed paper which arecollected separately. “We have created aculture where recycling is the expectationand we are producing clean streams ofpaper that have optimal value regardlessof the economy,” Pollock added.

On the national scene, the AmericanForest & Paper Association (AF&PA) islobbying hard in Washington to get stim-ulus money from the American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act channeled to sup-port paper recycling efforts. AF&PA rep-resents the pulp, paper and packagingindustries, wood product manufacturers

and forest landowners – a sector thataccounts for approximately 6 percent ofthe total United States manufacturingGDP which is as big economically as theautomotive and plastics industries.

The stimulus legislation appropriat-ed $3.2 billion for Energy Efficiency andConservation Block Grants. Donna Har-mon, AF&PA’s CEO is urging theDepartment of Energy (DOE) to use aportion of that money to increase partici-pation and efficiency rates for materialconservation, including recycling. In aMarch 12 letter to DOE secretary StevenChu, Harmon stated, “In the wake of oureconomic turndown, overall paperdemand has declined and taken the valueof overall fiber down with it. At a timewhen many cities are not receiving thehigh prices they once received for recy-clables, every effort must be made to pre-serve the consumer behaviors and recy-cling infrastructures that made our cur-rent successes possible.”

Scott Milburn, executive director ofstrategic communications at AF&PA, hadthis to say about paper recycling: “It’sone of the greatest environmental successstories of all time, one that combines bothenvironmental and commercial interests.The money made from recovered fiberhelps underwrite our recycling infrastruc-ture.”

Since 1990 when the Americanpaper industry established is first recov-ery goal to advance recycling, paperrecovery has grown by more than 85 per-cent. Last year, the paper recovery rategrew to 57.4 percent as compared to 56percent for 2007. AF&PA has set anindustry goal to reach 60 percent paperrecovery by 2012 and that may be achiev-able percentage-wise even if gross vol-umes fall lower due to the economic turn-down.

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In the beginning, Plastic Rev-olutions was an equipment manu-facturing company, according toEd Handy, the vice president andgeneral manager. A prototype wasbuilt and used as a demonstrationmodel, but “sales of the equipmentnever took off,” according toHandy. What did take off was therecycling business.

Founded by John Hagen in1991, the company now has about50 employees and buys material“all over the east coast” for processin the North Carolina facility. Mate-rial comes in from municipalities, plastics manufacturers and container companies.

While the company can and does process a variety of plastics, Handy said, “weare specialists” and high molecular weight HDPE is the company’s focus. Handysaid that the high molecular weight makes the material ideal for applications wherethe material has to be really tough, like chemical and food drums, undergroundpipes, and blow molded trash cans.

The company also processes one of the items that has become a recyclingnightmare for so many municipalities – plastic film. Handy said that the problemwith recycling the thin plastic bags is that there has to be someone local who cancollect and bale the bags. “When it’s compacted into bales, there’s a market,” hesaid.

Plastic Revolutions granulates incoming plastic to a half-inch size, then washesand dries it. The clean grind is then sold. Some of the material gets processed furtherand is pelletized.

While Handy wasn’t with the company at its inception, he has been there forten years, and in that time he’s seen a lot more material being labeled as recyclablethat used to end up in landfills. For example, plastic underground pipe used to beconsidered too much trouble to clean, but now it’s commonly recycled.

Handy said that waste drums and playground equipment are more commonlyrecycled as well, and there’s a move now to find ways to recycle more types of plas-tic. “Every type of plastic is being studied,” he said.

Before he worked for Plastic Revolutions, Handy worked for a company thatmade blow-molded plastic flowerpots from 100 percent recycled material. But atthat time, the recycled label wasn’t a selling point. Competitors bragged that theyused virgin plastic in their flowerpots, so the recycling angle was downplayed whereHandy worked. “I was in recycling before it was cool to do so,” he said.

All together, Handy said that he’s been in the plastic recycling business for 24years, and before that, he was in the military. From his first recycling job, he said, “Itgot in my blood quick, and I really enjoy it.”

Handy also enjoys the fact that recycling has become cool, and that people areso interested in participating in the process. While government regulations in NorthCarolina are doing things like making certain bottles taboo in landfills, Handy saidthat the big push is with the public. “I feel it and hear it everywhere,” he said. “It’snot just lip service.”

Not long ago, Handy gave a tour of the facility to a community college group“and I guess they liked me,” he said, since they asked him to speak at a ceremonyhonoring inductees into the college’s honor society. The event was attended by awide range of people including the faculty, students and families. “When you see theinterest in recycling, it blows your mind,” Handy said.

The interest wasn’t just in the speech. Handy said, “I was mobbed like a rockstar afterwards,” with people asking all sorts of questions about recycling.

Plastic isn’t the only thing recycled at Plastic Revolutions, though. The waterused for washing the plastic is never sent out through the drains – every bit is treat-ed and reused in the washing process. The company is also trying to reduce its car-bon footprint by using a more efficient heating system, using eco-friendly lightbulbs, and is also considering installing solar panels and skylights. “We’re commit-ted to being the greenest recycler in the country,” Handy said.

While the economy is making things tough for everyone in the recycling busi-ness, Handy said, “I think for good companies that do it right, the future is very, verybright.” He said that for some companies, the current sale price for plastic isn’t cov-ering their costs for processing and shipping, but “it don’t get any tougher than it isright now. I think it’s bottomed out.” He expects an upturn before the end of the year.

As for the future, he said that the recycling business will be “an excellent jobsource” and will “create millions of jobs.”

On a smaller scale, he enjoys the fact that by going to work every day, he’s“made a difference on planet earth,” and at the same time the company has providedgood jobs for people who work there. “We don’t even have anyone who hires peo-ple,” Handy said, “because we don’t have turnover.”

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Covanta Energy, a subsidiary ofCovanta Holding Corporation,announced it is supporting legislation topromote passage of a national bottle bill.

According to the Container Recy-cling Institute, states with bottle recy-cling legislation recover more than 50percent of containers as compared to anational average of 34 percent.

“Covanta Energy is working to sup-port passage of national bottle bill legis-lation that would provide the necessaryframework to increase container recy-cling across the country. This legislationwould create a more sustainable solu-tion than the current patchwork, state-by-state legislative approach whilereducing energy consumption andgreenhouse gas emissions,” said PaulGilman, Covanta’s chief sustainabilityofficer.

“Energy-from-Waste client commu-nities typically enjoy a higher recyclingrate than the national average becausethey have adopted integrated wastemanagement solutions that includecurbside recycling and recovering ener-gy from what remains. As written, thebill would provide all consumers, par-ticularly those without curbside collec-tion, access to convenient beverage con-tainer recycling programs.”

Gilman added that increasing thediversion rate of beverage containerswill also allow Covanta to improve itsEnergy-from-Waste facilities’ capacityto process non-recyclable waste.”

Covanta Energyand ContainerRecycling Institutesupport bottle bill As a result of intense opposition from

commercial and consumer advocates alike,a proposed $.25 per bag tax on plastic andpaper grocery bags failed on May 14 topass the Philadelphia City Council. The taxcould have added upward of $400 annuallyto the average family’s grocery bill.

The Progressive Bag Affiliates of theAmerican Chemistry Council welcomedthe outcome. “We are pleased that the Cityof Philadelphia chose not to take a punitiveapproach by taxing consumers during arecession,” said Shari Jackson, director ofthe Progressive Bag Affiliates. “Plastic bagsare fully recyclable and can be recycled atmany major grocery and retail chains inPhiladelphia and across the United States.Plastic bags don’t belong in roadways, theybelong in the recycling bin.”

About 830 million pounds of plasticbags and product wraps were recycled inthis country in 2007, representing anincrease of 27 percent from just two yearsprior. Recycled plastic bags and productwraps are used to make many useful prod-ucts, including durable backyard decks,home building products and new bags, toname a few.

Recently, the nation’s four leadingmakers of plastic carryout bags announceda landmark recycling goal of 40 percentrecycled content, including 25 percent post-consumer material, in all plastic bags by2015. When fully implemented, the FullCircle Recycling Initiative will reducegreenhouse gas emissions by 463 millionpounds, conserve enough energy (mainlynatural gas) to heat 200,000 homes, andreduce waste by 300 million pounds everyyear.

Philadelphia rejectstax on recyclableplastic grocery bags

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When it comes to conservingresources, there’s no better strategy thanrecycling – using materials that havealready been produced rather thandepleting any resources to produce newones.

There are few areas where recy-cling has a more dramatic effect than inthe plastics industry. The vast majorityof plastics can be recycled; the onlyquestion is how easily. Plastic recyclingtends to fall into two categories: pre-consumer and post-consumer. Mostmanufacturers focus on the pre-con-sumer variety; that is, utilizing the scrapgenerated during the manufacturingprocess and reincorporating it into theirprocesses, an approach that has been inexistence for quite some time.

While manufacturers have becomeincreasingly active participants in thegreen game, distributors have spentmost of their time on the sidelines. Infact, the part of the downstream usagechain where recycling can be mosteffective is at the distributor level. Fur-thermore, distributors can be an integrallink in a process that can be referred toas the greenstream.

At Acrilex, the greenstream isdefined as the multi-level model which“demonstrates eco-awareness andresponsibility at all levels of the materi-als chain, including manufacturing ofraw materials, distribution, utilization,consumption, reuse, disposal, and recy-cling. Deciding which processes takeplace at which level to ensure the mosteco-friendly and responsible approach-es to being green should, in fact, bedetermined by where a company fitswithin this greenstream. Theseapproaches are still emerging, and themodels for the greenstream are stillevolving as awareness and cooperationgrows.”

Acrilex transforms plastic sheetsand plastic products into parts and end

products that are purchased by cus-tomers. In the process, waste is generat-ed. Since Acrilex does not have a usefor that waste internally, it would typi-cally find its way into landfills, as itwould with most distributors. This scrapcan instead be reused as part of the pre-consumer movement.

While the greenstream approachhas a positive impact on the environ-ment, there are other reasons to partici-pate in the initiative. The excess materi-al and scrap generated can be sold backto manufacturers (or to specialty plasticrecycling companies, who will then sellit to the manufacturers themselves). Indoing so, Acrilex created a new revenuestream. So recycling plastic scrap is notonly environmentally responsible, but it

can translate to cold, hard cash. In otherwords, being green can lead to green.

It’s not only scrap that can becomean integral part of a distributor’s green-stream process. Many distributors haveexcess inventory and damaged goodsthat manufacturers won’t take back asproduct; consequently, the distributor isforced to dispose of this excess in land-fills. By recycling it as scrap, the dis-tributor can turn useless items intoadded revenue, while providing themanufacturer with much-needed rawmaterial – all with virtually no environ-

mental impact. It’s a simple formula:every pound of plastic that you recycleis one less pound of raw material youneed to utilize, resulting in one lesspound of scrap in a landfill.

It should be noted that distributorsare in a unique position to take advan-tage of both sides of the greenstreamchain. Collecting their own scrap andselling it back to manufacturers or third-party companies is one side; but distrib-utors also have the opportunity to posi-tion themselves as a resource to compa-nies further down the supply chain.

For example, many end users, suchas plastic fabricators, sign shops, dis-play and fixture manufacturers, havescrap of their own that they may wantdisposed of, but either they do not knowwhere to send it or, more likely, are notwilling to expend the time and money toset up a comprehensive recycling pro-gram. As a value-added service, distrib-utors can offer to pick up this scrapfrom resellers, end users, even their cus-tomers who need a way to get rid oftheir mistakes, prototypes, and excessmaterials. In doing so, the distributornot only acquires more scrap for sale(additional revenue), but further solidi-fies its business relationship with thatcompany. What’s more, by removingwaste the customer would otherwisehave to pay to dispose of, the distributorhelps the customer become part of thegreenstream, even if the customer com-pany itself would not be considered“green” by manufacturing standards.

Of course there are some energycosts associated with the collection, saleand distribution of scrap (cost of gas totransport the material, labor to collect it,etc.), but these are minor compared tothe potential revenue that can be gener-ated and the positive impact on the envi-ronment.

Acrilex has a number of differentlevels of recycling, all stemming from

their dual role as both a plastic manu-facturer and a distributor. As distributor,they handle multiple types of plastic.Some of their scrap – excess sheetscrap, the skeleton remains that comefrom CNC routers – are placed on skids,palletized and stored. Acrilex will ware-house this scrap until they can maxi-mize the economics of shipping it out.

The final form of their scrap isplastic sawdust – predominantly acrylic– that is generated during the plastics tofabrication process. (This is an areawhich certainly requires more industry-wide attention, given that over 80 tonsof plastic sawdust that Acrilex generateseach year is not getting into landfills).The material is accumulated by dustcollectors and picked up by a manufac-turer who utilizes it as filler/binder forthe product they’re extruding.

Further, as a manufacturer, unusedwaste monomer will be polymerized, orsolidified, and resold as scrap for recy-cling. This eliminates the chemical haz-ard while providing material for recy-cling; no dumping is required. Addition-ally, excess sheets of Acriglas (damagedsheets or ones that cannot be sold) havean aftermarket in recycling or as inex-pensive, unusual sheet goods overseas.

It should be noted that many com-panies will group all their scraps togeth-er and send them out en masse; that is,all dissimilar polymer scrap beinglumped together in the same containers.This doesn’t necessarily help the green-stream because at some point somebodyis going to have to reprocess or re-sort itjust to categorize it, thus reducing theoverall value of the scrap. What’s more,contaminants will often end up in thescrap material which can ultimately pol-lute the green stream. Therefore, one ofthe most critical things a distributor, oranyone recycling materials, can do iscategorize their scrap.

In plastics, being green can make green

strong demand for goods, quality con-siderations, and suggestions forhouseholder education.”

The report also addressed theplastic bottle reclamation industry,pointing out that the number of HDPEreclaimers stayed stable in 2007 ascompared to 2006 with 29 companies.

“The number of smaller compa-nies may vary year-to-year as industri-al scrap companies change their busi-ness plans and start-ups and acquisi-tions continue,” stated the report.“The largest companies, processingover 30 million pounds annually,processed 81 percent of the HDPEreclaimed. The amount of HDPEprocessed by US HDPE reclaimersrose by 19.8 million pounds to 761.5million pounds.

“For HDPE bottle reclamation,capacity utilization, as defined, fellfrom 69 percent in 2005 to 66 percentin 2006 and rose back to 69 percent in2007,” added the report, “as the calcu-lated total washing capacity wasadjusted downward slightly based onreports and the amount processeddomestically rose. As in 2005 and2006, the material supply in 2007 con-tinued to be a major concern for bothPET and HDPE reclaimers. Thegrowth in domestic supply of baledbottles was insufficient to keep the USplastic reclaimers’ plants full. TheHDPE bottle recycling industry con-tinues, as it has since 1996, to be sup-ply limited.”

So until more PET and HDPEfinds its way into the reclamation sys-tem, companies like Peninsula mayhave a long time to wait before theyare able to reach 100 percent recycledcontent in their products.

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NewPage Anthem andFortune now FSC chain-of-custody certified

NewPage Corporation announced thatAnthem® and Fortune® sheetfed productsare now Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)chain-of-custody certified. FSC is an inter-national, nonprofit organization that devel-ops standards for responsible forest manage-ment, and accredits independent third-partyorganizations to certify forest managers andforest product producers to these standards.

“Chain-of-custody” is the traceablepath logs take from the forest, through thepulp manufacturing process, to the papermill, all the way through to the certifiedproduct. Compliance with this standardmeans that NewPage is engaged in bestpractices to obtain wood and pulp from legalsources while avoiding wood from areaswhere human rights have been violated,from high conservation value forests, fromplantations that have been converted fromnatural forests, and from genetically modi-fied trees. Chain-of-custody must be inplace at all steps along the supply chain inorder for labels or packaging to carry anFSC chain-of-custody label.

Acrilex has implemented a greenstream model,and created a new revenue stream by doing so.

Legislation aimed at reducingStyrofoam waste is up for considera-tion by the Philadelphia City Council.

Bill 090064 targets polystyrene, orStyrofoam. The material, most oftenutilized in disposable food servicecontainers, may end up the target of alegislative ban. Instead of foam prod-ucts, the law would require thatbiodegradable, compostable, or recy-clable items be used instead, unless noaffordable alternatives can be found.

Food businesses would berequired to state in writing that theyare in compliance with the ban or facefines of up to $500, depending on thenumber of offenses. The ordinancewould take effect January 1, 2010.

City of Philadelphiaconsiders Styrofoamreduction legislation

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