National Recycling Markets: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2746, a Bill to Develop, Assist, and Stabilize Recycling Markets, June 26 and July 18, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 269 pages |
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Page 79 - ... agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return, flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923). (28) The term "solid waste management...
Page 189 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND COMPETITIVENESS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 am, in room 2322, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 79 - solid waste' means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, Including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities...
Page 196 - Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
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Page 81 - I am president of the American Paper Institute (API) , the national trade association of the pulp, paper and paper-board industry. I am testifying today on behalf of our approximately 175 member companies...
Page 196 - In fact, of the three other primary raw materials, sand, limestone and soda ash, only sand is used more than cullet in making new containers. Sand, limestone, and soda ash are domestically plentiful. However, using cullet allows us to reduce the temperature of our furnaces and therefore provides real benefits - it saves energy and prolongs the life of our furnaces and other glass manufacturing equipment. We want to use as much cullet as possible. As consumer awareness of environmental issues intensifies...
Page 78 - ... is commonly produced as marginally punched continuous forms in small rolls or fan folded sets with or without carbon paper interleaving. It has a wide variety of uses such as invoices, purchase orders, office memoranda, shipping orders, and computer printout; (v) Mill broke means any paper waste generated in a paper mill prior to completion of the paper-making process.
Page 115 - Plastics" refers to a class of materials, the most common of which are listed below: - Polyester (PET) - High density polyethylene (HDPE) - Low density polyethylene (LDPE) - Linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) - Polystyrene (PS) - Polypropylene (PP) - Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Most of the plastics listed above follow a similar pathway for their manufacture and thus have similar materials and energy flows. Oil and natural gas feeds are "cracked...
Page 82 - I want to emphasize that the US paper industry's objective is to maximize paper recycling to the fullest extent economically and technologically feasible. This unequivocal commitment to recycling is perhaps best exemplified by the industry's recently announced 1995 goal to recover — for domestic recycling and export — 40 percent of all paper Americans consume. That will constitute approximately 40 million tons of recovered paper, nearly 50 percent more than was recovered in 1989.