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RCon 2026 Recap: When Battery Fires Ignite a Bigger Conversation
More than 1,500 waste and recycling professionals gathered in St. Louis. One message stood out: keeping the industry safe requires more than putting out fires. St. Louis was the m…
Who Pays When a Battery Fire Destroys a Garbage Truck? California Is Shifting the Debate.
A new battery recycling law and tougher landfill temperature rules put waste haulers at the center of a growing debate over fire risk, insurance costs, and who should pay for the…
Fire Season Isn't Ending: What the Latest Waste Facility Fire Data Means for Your Operation
Fire Prevention Week runs October 4 to 10, and this year's theme is lithium-ion battery hazards. For anyone running trucks or a tipping floor, that is not an awareness slogan. It…
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USM’s growth playbook: do the hard jobs, earn the long contracts
United Scrap Metal didn’t scale on commodity luck. It built a national footprint by saying yes to the labor-heavy, time-critical work most operators avoid—and then executing relentlessly.
Machinex bets on AI as the control layer for the MRF
This isn’t just another robot-on-a-belt story. Machinex is tying vision, optics, and air to a single AI brain — and staking a claim on the data that powers it.
Fake carriers, real losses: Load theft has moved to your shipping desk
Organized fraud is hitting recyclers where they least expect it — at release, not the fence line. Rising metal values and convincing paperwork mean one sloppy handoff can vaporize a six-figure load.
Electric loaders are moving from pilots to production — here’s where the math works
Groupe Bellemare isn’t testing the waters — it’s running mid-size electric loaders and an excavator in daily C&D and minerals operations. The lesson for MRFs and transfer yards: duty cycle and site design make or break electrification’s business case.
Stop Running to Failure: Why Shredder Uptime Starts With a Wednesday Shutdown
Operators at Gershow and SA Recycling say the math favors scheduled downtime over heroics. The lesson for recyclers and MRFs is operational, not philosophical: put PM on the calendar and treat it like production.
AI optical sorters are rewriting the capex plan for metal recyclers
A lower-cost AI path to premium metal specs is emerging — and it’s not X-ray. The operational kicker: programmable sort “recipes” mean batch-driven plants, not fixed lines.
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