Icahn Drops Bid for CMC

Icahn Enterprises Holdings (IEH), a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises LP , has announced that its tender offer for the outstanding shares of Commercial Metals Co . (CMC) for $15 per share in cash has expired.

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Missouri AG Files Restraining Order Against Company Over Demolition Project

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has announed his office has obtained a temporary restraining order against Didion Land Project Association LLC and its owners and operators, Thomas Stewart and Daniel Fetsch, for violating the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Law, the Missouri Solid Waste Law and the Missouri Clean Water Law. In a press release from the AG’s office, Koster claims the defendants operated the Didion and Sons Foundry in St. Peters, Mo., beginning around April 2009.

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Study Finds Nonrecycled Plastics Can Fuel Alternative Energy Industry

A new study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University, New York, and sponsored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Washington, D.C., has found that converting the nonrecycled plastics that are currently landfilled each year in the United States to energy using currently available technologies could provide at least enough energy to fuel 6 million cars annually.

Chicago Opens Bidding for Recycling Program

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Department of Streets & Sanitation Commissioner Thomas Byrne kicked off competitive bidding for Chicago’s Blue Cart Recycling Program Oct. 3, 2011.

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Indorama Acquiring European Plastics Recycling Firm

Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd., based in Bangkok, has signed an agreement with WIT Beteiligungs GmbH and Wellman International Trading, affiliates of the holding company Aurelius AG, to acquire a 100 percent stake in the recycling and fiber manufacturing businesses of Wellman International in Europe for around €42 million (US$56.6 million)

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Cascades Inaugurates New Deinking Equipment at Quebec Paper Mill

Alain Lemaire, president and CEO of Cascades, and Luc Langevin, president and COO of Cascades Specialty Products Group, have inaugurated $3.7 million in new deinking equipment at the company’s fine paper mill in Breakeyville, Quebec. The facility produces deinked kraft pulp, and is designed to provide the company with an improved end product while preserving jobs

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Recovery Jobs

Municipal recycling programs have been helping to recover valuable secondary materials for a long time. But collecting these materials at the curb or the drop-off center is only part of the process.

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Harsco Signs Long-Term Contract with TISCO

The steel mill services company Harsco, (www.harsco.com), Harrisburg, Pa., has signed a 25-year contract for onsite metal recovery services at a joint venture project it earlier established with Taiyuan Iron & Steel (TISCO) in China. Harsco says it is the largest such contract in the company’s history

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Obama Administration Unveils National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship

The Obama Administration has released its “National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship,” an approach to the responsible design, purchasing, management and recycling of electronics that is designed to promote the electronics recycling market and jobs in the country. U.S

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New England E Recycling buys into RMG

New England E Recycling LLC has invested in RMG Enterprise LLC , an electronics recycling firm with facilities in Londonderry, N.H. and North Kingstown, R.I. New England E Recycling, an affiliate of Office Paper Recovery Systems Inc.

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