CMRA NEWS
2012 C&D World Call For Papers
The 18th Annual C&D World, the Annual Meeting of the CMRA, will be held March 25-27 at the Convention Center in Nashville, TN, the center of country music. As always, a top notch program will be part of the gathering place for the C&D recycling industry. The CMRA Convention Committee is looking for presentations that provide the cutting edge information the meeting has long provided. Of course, a large exhibition area showcasing the latest in equipment technologies and services will be a part of this large meeting.
To submit a topic idea, contact the CMRA at 630-585-7530; info@cdrecycling.org.
December, 2011
Latest 20 members to join the CMRA Announced
Despite the difficult economic times the CMRA has managed to maintain most of its membership base, unlike many other trade associations. The CMRA board attributes that to work the organization has been doing serving C&D recyclers. Below is a list of the 20 companies that have most recently joined the CMRA.
Ace Recycling—Chester, VA
Harley Hollan Companies—Tulsa, OK
Sherbrooke OEM Ltd.—Sherbrooke, QC Canada
Law Offices of Eric P. Bock—Washington, DC
Baltimore Recycling Center—Baltimore, MD
On Demand Container, LLC—Cincinnati, OH
MB America, Inc.—Reno, NV
Kafka Conveyors & Equipment—Mosinee, WI
Allocco Recycling Ltd.—Brooklyn, NY
County Conservation Co., LLC—Sewell, NJ
United Recycling & Container—Snohomish, WA
Eco Recycling—Pagedale, MO
Great Lakes Shingle Recycling—Jenison, MI
G.W. Murphy, Inc.—Hammond, IN
Schnitzer Northeast—Everett, MA
P. Flanigan & Sons, Inc.—Baltimore, MD
Richard S. Burns & Co., Inc.—Philadelphia, PA
Patriot Recycling—Raynham, MA
Choctaw Autumn Construction Waste Recycling, LLC—Houston, TX
Rocky Mountain Recycling—Commerce City, CO
August, 2011
CMRA Joins Coalition On EPA’s NHSM Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released its Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) rule as part of a package of regulations that it was required to do by a federal court order. The other regulations focused on boilers, and were flawed enough that EPA “stayed,” or delayed their implementation. The NHSM rule, though affected the fuels that fed those boilers, including C&D wood biomass. It is the general consensus of all who read the rule that the fuels would be negatively and seriously impacted by the regulation.
The CMRA formed an ad hoc group to examine the rule, and gain more information about its effect on C&D biomass. The group included Gary Sondermeyer, Bayshore Recycling; Greg Wirsen, Green Seal Environmental; Max Lee, Ph.D., Koogler & Associates; Chaz Miller, NSWMA; and William Turley. Sondermeyer contacted the proper EPA personnel and determined that the rule would put an undue regulatory burden on C&D wood fuel and the boilers that use them. Miller discovered there was a coalition of industry associations that had reached the same determination, and the CMRA contacted them and joined the coalition. Some associations in that coalition include American Forest & Paper, Rubber Manufacturers Association, Biomass Power Council, among others.
Through the coalition CMRA representatives met with EPA to provide background information on C&D biomass and how the rule would hurt the recycling industry. First, Lee went to Washington D.C. to meet with technical personnel and showed that the wood was a safe and powerful fuel. Then Turley, with several other associations, met a week later with several top EPA personnel to examine a proposal from the agency to help solve the situation. EPA did provide a solution that could work, but whether it was legal was questioned, as well as how the EPA would react when the environmental groups would fought against the solution.
Finally, in early July, Sondermeyer traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with Robert Perciacepe, EPA Deputy Administrator, the number two person at the agency, to try to gain a stay for the rule, which will slow down implementation and perhaps the rule to be redrawn to all the use of all the non-traditional fuels that will be negatively affected by the rule.