American Eagle Paper Mills, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, has expanded its line of 100 percent recycled-content product line with the introduction of Eagle Digital Smooth 100 for HP Indigo digital presses. The product is made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber.

The line of paper, manufactured at the company’s Pennsylvania mill, is acid free for archival purposes and the process used to make it is elemental chlorine free. The paper also is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, according to American Eagle.

American Eagle Paper Mills recycles around 300 tons of recovered fiber per day into a range of recycled-content uncoated freesheet papers, including office, printing and converting grades. 

Stamford, Connecticut-based Van Dyk Recycling Solutions has installed a glass cleanup system at City Carting’s single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in Stamford to help recover and recycle additional material from within the existing waste stream.

The glass cleanup system is designed to produce a more marketable glass product and includes a double-deck screen and a zig-zag separator to screen out the glass and then separate it into lights and heavies. The zig-zag separator is flexible and can bring glass to a purity level of 95 percent, Van Dyk Recycling Solutions says.

“This machine was a considerable investment for us, but it looks like it will be well worth it,” says Michael Ferro, general manager of City Carting.

With the uncertainty in today’s fiber markets, City Carting knew it had to look elsewhere in its process to increase recovery and add value to negative revenue streams, Van Dyk says. The two companies worked together to arrive at the solution that was installed.

The installation was performed while the rest of City Carting’s sorting system remained operational and was completed within two weeks, Van Dyk says. 

The board of directors of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, has approved amendments to existing nonferrous specifications for shredded electric motors (shelmo) and wheel weights (ropes) at its Winter Meeting Feb. 1. These specification changes are intended to more accurately reflect the nonferrous scrap commodities currently being traded in the marketplace, ISRI says.

The proposed modifications:

1) change the maximum allowable amount of aluminum-wound material in the shelmo specification from 10 percent to 5 percent; and

2) change the ropes specification title from “Wheel Weights” to “Lead Wheel Weights.”

Any party may submit to ISRI a written appeal of the ISRI board’s approval of these changes up to 30 days after publication of this notice. ISRI says written appeals must provide a rationale and a request for action.

Once finalized, the new specification will be included in ISRI’s Scrap Specifications Circular, which provides industry guidelines for buying and selling a variety of processed scrap commodities, including ferrous, nonferrous, paper, plastics, electronics, rubber and glass.

To submit comments, recommendations or questions please contact ISRI’s Joe Pickard at JoePickard@isri.org. 

New York-based Red Bags and Connecticut-based Pathacura, providers of medical waste disposal services, have announced their merger. The companies say they will combine their business operations under the Red Bag name in the coming year.

Pathacura brings more than 20 years of experience in the industry. Its focus on small and midsize waste generators allows Pathacura to help those companies with strict budgets and more diverse volume demands.

"We are thrilled to welcome Pathacura to the Red Bags family and to expand our services into Connecticut," says Sean Fredricks, president of Red Bags. "There is an incredible opportunity to expand these necessary services throughout the states of Connecticut and New York. We are confident the combination of the leadership and experience of the Pathacura and Red Bags teams will bring about a best-in-class, compliance-focused, medical waste disposal organization."

"Providing safe, quality service for our customers has always been our focus,” Michael Mongillo of Pathacura says. “Combining this with the experience and expanded services the Red Bags team offers allows us to accelerate our pursuit to improve medical waste disposal services for all medical waste generators throughout the state of Connecticut.”

Established by professionals with extensive experience in medical waste disposal services, Red Bags says it promises to provide the best and most consistent services to its customers. An expanded service menu allows the company to offer compliance training, paper shredding, pill bottle shredding, media destruction, hard drive destruction, file storage and disposal of light and universal wastes.

The combined companies serve a wide range of service sectors and industries, such as local and state services, schools, first responders, health care providers, life science, adult care, hospitality and veterinary.