Recycling Today OCT 2022 / by Brian Taylor / Read original article
Steelmakers, recyclers, EPA agree to maintain efforts to keep mercury out of melt shops.
Representatives of steelmaking and recycling associations have renewed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to maintain funding for the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program (NVMSRP). The MOU extends the effort to divert mercury-containing switches found in some vehicles from auto shredders and melt shops through July 1, 2027.
The MOU was agreed to by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the Washington-based Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA); the Washington-based American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI); the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI); the Manassas, Virginia-based Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA); and the Michigan-based End of Life Vehicle Solutions Corp. (ELVSC).
The NVMSRP MOU initially was designed by EPA and industry stakeholders in 2006. To date, the program has prevented the release of more than 8.2 tons of mercury into the atmosphere, AISI says in a news release.
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