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Article: Real issues: lawmakers giveth and they also taketh away when it comes to providing boosts to mixed C&D recycling.(COMMODITY FOCUS)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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When the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) established its Issues and Education Fund in 2003, it was aware that legislators and regulatory agencies could alternatively make life easier or more difficult for operators of mixed C&D plants.
This decade, agencies and legislative bodies in a number of states have passed rules and laws directly affecting the way C&D recyclers operate.
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In many cases, the intentions behind such laws are in favor of recycling, though some of these laws can have unintended consequences. In other cases, rules and laws have been established that are decidedly unwelcome.
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