CMRA meets with EPA officials.The Construction Materials Recycling Association was one of the six industrial material recycling associations discussing issues facing those industries in a daylong day·long adj. Lasting through the whole day. adv. Through the day; all day. Adj. 1. daylong - lasting through an entire day meeting with top officials of the U.S. EPA's Office of Solid Waste in January. The event was part of a meeting of the Industrial Resources Council (IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Computer conferencing on the Internet. There are hundreds of IRC channels on numerous subjects that are hosted on IRC servers around the world. After joining a channel, your messages are broadcast to everyone listening to that channel. ). The other materials discussed included foundry sand, coal ash, slag, tires, and pulp and paper residues. These materials face many of the same barriers to being recycled as does C&D debris, including questions about engineering characteristics, aversion a·ver·sion n. 1. A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance, as of crowds. 2. A feeling of extreme repugnance accompanied by avoidance or rejection. to trying something new and regulatory reluctance. Yet these materials can, in most cases, do the job as well as virgin materials, says the IRC. What the IRC wanted was help from the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. in overcoming certain barriers that are put up, especially by state government agencies. The EPA is interested in seeing more recycling of these materials and is reviewing options. These include getting together the stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. from the recycling side and agencies that do not support recycling, and other options. |
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