TMS International Lands $290 Million in Contracts

Pittsburgh-based TMS International Corp. , the parent company of Tube City IMS Corp., has secured three new mill services contracts totaling more than $290 million in revenue over the life of the contracts at expected production levels.

Paper Recycling Conference: Squeezed Out

Tissue mills and newsprint manufacturers are not the only ones scrambling to find alternative raw materials because of the smaller amount of old newspapers (ONP) on the market. At a session at the 2011 Paper Recycling Conference, held in Chicago in late October, representatives of three other companies that consume ONP described how they are reacting to changes to their supply chain.

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Nestlé, Bloomberg Join BAN’s e-Stewards Enterprises Group

The Basel Action Network (BAN), based in Seattle, has announced two corporations, Nestle and Bloomberg LP, have signed on as members of BAN’s e-Stewards Enterprises. The two companies join LG Electronics, NVIDIA, Capitol One, Samsung, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Alcoa as e-Stewards Enterprise members

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OSHA Cites Ohio Recycler for Safety Violations

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Marietta Industrial Enterprises Inc., which operates as Refuse Recycling in Marietta, Marietta, Ohio, for 21 safety violations following the death of an employee March 30, 2011. OSHA officials say two of the violations were willful in nature

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European Week for Waste Reduction Honors Waste Reduction Efforts

The awards ceremony for the 2010 European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) took place 28 March, 2011, in Brussels before an estimated 200 attendees, including the Brussels-Capital Region Minister for the Environment Evelyne Huytebroeck and several representatives of the European Commission and the LIFE+ Programme. The ceremony honored awareness-raising actions implemented during the 2010 EWWR. From 20 – 28 Nov., 2010, 4,346 EWWR actions took place in 24 countries throughout Europe and beyond with the common aim to promote waste reduction.

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Medical: Protect your medical identity from theft

While most other types of identity theft steal your money, medical ID thievery could also cost your life. Should your medical data become mingled with that of one or more strangers who have fraudulently gotten treatment as you, the potential for confusion, if not disaster, is obvious — if you’re diabetic and the fraudster isn’t, or you hav…

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