California’s New Waste Plan For Metal Shredding Fails To Allay Industry Fear

October 14, 2021
California’s toxics department has issued a revised emergency rulemaking proposal to regulate metal shredding operations under strict hazardous waste management requirements, though the plan is failing to quell strong concerns from a coalition of metal recyclers, who say they will continue their push to kill the proposal. “The Coalition intends to submit comments to the Office of Administrative Law [OAL] urging disapproval of the proposed regulations on the grounds that no emergency exists,” reads an Oct. 12 statement from Roger...


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