NRC opens its tent to industrial byproducts.(National Recycling Coalition)

Waste News, September, 2005 by Truini, Joe

Byline: Joe Truini The National Recycling Coalition has expanded its universe to include industrial byproducts. The coalition's board voted unanimously Aug. 27 to support the Industrial Resources Council, a group of associations trying to increase the beneficial reuses of industrial byproducts.

The vote was taken in Minneapolis during the coalition's 24th Annual Congress & Exposition. The NRC is following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead. In November, the EPA adopted industrial byproduct recycling as one of its four national priorities under its Resource Conservation Challenge. "It's beyond bottles and cans and newspaper,'' said Kate Krebs, NRC executive director. "We have these little tables underneath our...

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