Robin Wiener
Even after being in the scrap recycling industry for over 25 years, I am still amazed at how often we have to reeducate policymakers about the business. Despite long-standing industry efforts to distinguish scrap recycling from waste disposal, many still confuse scrap recyclers with solid and hazardous waste companies.
Everything in our industry seems to be heading downward – declining commodities values, shrinking device weights and less gold in each piece of equipment.
North Carolina is home to a robust recycling industry that creates jobs, generates tax revenues and diverts significant tonnage from our local landfills.
Accredited certification bodies use international standards and, increasingly, industry-specific additional performance requirements to audit product and service companies’ processes to determine conformance and award certification.
This story originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of E-Scrap News.
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