New Brunswick program recycles province's old automobile tires
Tuesday, May 06, 2008-- Diverting those old tires from the waste stream, and ensuring productive recycling, is the essence of the New Brunswick's Tire Stewardship Program (TSP). More than 10 million scrap tires have been successfully recovered and recycled in N.B. since the TSP began in October, 1996....[<|>More]
[The Daily Gleaner, Canada]

Salvage yard owner sues city
Tuesday, May 06, 2008-- The owner of a salvage yard across the street from Madison High School is suing Milwaukee's Board of Zoning Appeals over an action that essentially shuts the business down. DO/RE Inc., a corporation that operates Aztak Metal Processing, says in the lawsuit that the board's refusal to renew a variance was arbitrary, not based on the evidence and contrary to the law....[<|>More]
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Vesco Oil wins award for oil filter recycling process
Friday, May 02, 2008-- Vesco Oil Corporation, a Southfield, Michigan-based distributor and supplier, received the Environmental Achievement Award for its used oil filter management program from the Environmental Management Association (EMA)....[<|>More]
[American Recycler, OH]

New training programs are available for auto recyclers
Friday, May 02, 2008-- The Automotive Recyclers Associations Educational Foundation (ARAEF) has added two new training programs to its online university. The ARA University (ARAU) will now give the auto recycler the ability to plug in to e-training offered by the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) and ARA Product Services, LLC. These new additions to the ARAU curriculum will provide the recycler with direct access to industry-recognized hazmat and airbag training. Both programs are designed to help the auto recycler stay in compliance with federal regulations. ARAU has partnered with CCAR to bring the auto recycler two specialized training courses, S/P2 and HazmatU, that are focused on safety and pollution prevention and hazmat materials....[<|>More]
[American Recycler, OH]

US recyclers look to auto dismantling to obtain ferrous scrap
Tuesday, April 22, 2008-- In an effort to increase their supply of ferrous scrap metal, several major U.S. processors have acquired or established joint ventures with auto dismantling and parts businesses....[<|>More]
[Scrap News, Washington, DC]

That old junk car might have new value
Monday, April 21, 2008-- Soaring scrapmetal prices are restoring the luster to broken-down cars and other junk  and putting a gleam in the eye of a new breed of backwoods thief. Its not just copper that crooks are stealing. Rusting car bodies and entire junk heaps are vanishing from back lots, thanks to voracious demand for raw commodities in China and India driving up prices, especially for scrap steel....[<|>More]
[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]