metal recycling equipment News
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U.S. EPA requires cleanup, fines Sims Metal Management for polluting San Francisco Bay
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice fined Sims Metal Management $189,500 for polluting San Francisco Bay with scrap metal debris in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. Since at least the early 1990s, Sims operated a conveyor belt without adequate pollution controls to prevent materials from falling off the conveyor and into the Bay. “More ...
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PRAB spotlights system approach to chip processing equipment during IMTS 2012
PRAB scrap metal and fluid recycling engineers will be on hand at IMTS in Booth E-5664 (held Sept. 10-15 at McCormick Place in Chicago) to meet with attendees to discuss the efficiencies and benefits of scrap metal handling, fluid filtration, and recycling systems. Engineered to address unique manufacturing and industry challenges, PRAB chip handling systems can increase profits by effectively ...
By PRAB, Inc
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President signs America Recycles Day proclamation/proclamation, new task force focus on electronic waste (HQ)
Yesterday, on America Recycles Day, President Obama signed a proclamation celebrating the strides the country has made in recycling generally, while also highlighting the need for greater attention to addressing electronic waste (e-waste). Last week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the General Services Administration (GSA) formed a task ...
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President Signs America Recycles Day Proclamation/Proclamation, new task force focus on electronic waste
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, on America Recycles Day, President Obama signed a proclamation celebrating the strides the country has made in recycling generally, while also highlighting the need for greater attention to addressing electronic waste (e-waste). Last week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the General Services Administration ...
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New Report on `Green` Recycling Industry Exposes Unregulated Toxic Air Pollution Threat - California Agency to be First in the Nation to Regulate Toxic Air Pollution from Industry
EL CERRITO, Calif. - A new report by a leading California Environmental Justice group, Global Community Monitor (GCM), has uncovered a potentially massive problem from the nation's billion dollar metal recycling industry. The report finds that metal recycling, generally considered a green industry, both releases toxic air contaminants during processing operations and is currently unregulated. In ...
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EPA identifies three industries for financial obligations in cleanup of environmental releases
Action is a first step to ensure owners of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot bill for the cleanup of environmental releases WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken a significant step in an effort to help reduce the need for federal taxpayers to fund the cleanup of environmental releases. The agency has identified three additional industry sectors for which it will ...
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