Nonferrous Scrap, China

Copper fluctuated around $9,000 in June amid news creeping from home and abroad such as the debt problems in euro zone, economic data from China, Europe and the United States and China’s moves to cool inflation.

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ERI’s Denver Plant Receives R2 Certification

Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), headquartered in Fresno, Calif., has announced its Denver electronics recycling facility has successfully achieved Responsible Recycling Practices for Electronics Recyclers (R2) certification. The company’s Denver location earned the certification from the EPA.

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Great Potential

For years recycling has been touted to communities and governments as a way to reduce waste and help the environment.

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Bepex Installing Plastic Bottle Recycling System in Vietnam

Bepex International , Minneapolis, a provider of equipment for the food, chemical, mineral and polymer industries, has signed an agreement with Vietnam-based Thanh Tai Gas Co., to custom design, fabricate and deliver equipment that will allow Thanh Tai Gas to recycle up to 1.5 billion PET bottles per year. Bepex says that the system will be the first system of its type in South East Asia.

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Wendt Hires Scrap Recycling Veteran

Wendt Corp. , Tonawanda, N.Y., designers and manufacturers of automobile shredding and nonferrous separation systems, has named David Kaminski regional sales manager. Kaminski started in the scrap recycling industry in 1969 at Benton Processing (now Alter Trading Corp.)

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BIR Commends European Plastics Industry on Efforts to Reduce Impact of Plastic Litter on Marine Life

The Brussels, Belgium-based Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) is applauding an initiative introduced by PlasticsEurope that seeks to develop a joint action plan that addresses the marine life pollution caused by plastic litter.

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Wisconsin Groups Make Case for Recycling

More than 150 municipalities, businesses and organizations in Wisconsin have joined to call for the restoration of local recycling requirements and state cost share funding in the state’s proposed budget. The letter was written and circulated by the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin (AROW), the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) Badger Chapter, the Wisconsin Counties Solid Waste Management Association (WCSWMA) and the Wisconsin Council on Recycling. The letter notes that state financial assistance for local recycling programs has come not from general fund tax dollars, but from the segregated Recycling and Renewable Energy Fund

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WMRA Strengthens its Supply Network on the East Coast

Waste Management Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Waste Management Recycle America has acquired two recycling facilities in Virginia and one recycling facility in Maryland from Canusa Hershman Recycling Co. The acquisition includes facilities in Baltimore and Manassas, Va., and a third facility.

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ECS Refining Purchases New Building

ECS Refining , based in Santa Clara,

Thieves Targeting Recycling Bins For Possible ID Theft

Residents in East Meadow, Long Island are being warned of thieves stealing from recycling bins placed outside their homes.

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