CMRA Meets With EPA, FHWA

Representatives from the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss industry issues with officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

At EPA the CMRA met with the top personnel at the Office of Solid Waste for three main items:

• Explain the results of the association’s survey on how much C&D is recycled;

• Gain the agency’s support for uniform specifications for the use of recycled aggregates in the highway environment; and

• Discuss mixed C&D issues such as problems with alternative daily cover markets, H2S issues and boiler fuel specifications.

The CMRA was able to gain approval from the agency to work with it on a project to provide answers on how best to use ADC made from C&D debris in the landfill environment.

“But this meeting also provided our members a chance to sit down with the senior members of the Office of Solid Waste to discuss in detail several other issues facing our industry,” says William Turley, executive director of the CMRA and associate publisher of Construction & Demolition Recycling. “I think we all better understand where everyone is coming from. It also is gratifying to see EPA is interested enough in promoting C&D recycling that it is willing to look over one of our industry’s current problems.”