ISRI Announces Schedule for Commodities Roundtables

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has announced the schedule for its Commodity Roundtables this fall in Chicago. The roundtables will include sessions on scrap tires, electronics, ferrous, copper and brass and aluminum.

The program will begin with its third annual Tire Recycling Business Summit Sept. 12-13 in Chicago. The program will include presentations looking at trends in the scrap tire market, workers’ compensation, tire safety, preventing fires in scrap tire facilities, illegal immigration, Design for Recycling®, and consumer markets.

The registration fees are $245 for ISRI members and $345 for nonmembers until Aug. 22. After that date the fees are $270 and $370 respectively. Nonmembers who join ISRI within 30 days of the summit will receive a credit of $50 on their annual dues.

Following up on the tire summit, ISRI will be holding its other Commodity sessions, from Sept. 13-15. The program opens with the Electronic Roundtable, "Mining the Precious Metals from Electronic Scrap: Hype or Hope?" on Wednesday afternoon. Featured on Thursday are the Ferrous Roundtable, "Global and Domestic Steel: Stronger Longer?" and the Copper/Brass Roundtable, "Funds and Fundamentals: Copper’s Conundrum." The forum concludes on Friday with the Aluminum Roundtable, "Funds and Fundamentals: Anxious Aluminum."

Additional information on both programs is available at www.isri.org, or by calling 202/737-1770.