Visit our SA Recycling booths at these events.
Earth Day Fair at the Centennial Education Center
Wednesday, April 22nd 9am-12pm and 6pm-7:30pm
Earth Night in then Garden
Western Municipal Water District
450 E Alessandro Blvd.
Riverside, CA 92508
April 22nd, 4pm-8pm
In light of Earth Day, read these interesting articles on how scrap metal recycling is important to our environment.
Never Green: Does My Car Decompose?
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries is planning to expand their theft alert program. ISRI’s current theft alert program fights material theft by sending an alert email to all of its members within the region the theft had occurred. To read about ISRI’s new system click here.
Old diesels banned at ports
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach formally launched a $1.6 billion initiative Wednesday,aimed at reducing diesel truck emissions by 80 percent within five years.
“Today, the children of Los Angeles and the South Bay are breathing easier,” said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who called the program his “most significant environmental achievement” since taking office in 2005.
“People said it couldn’t be done,” he said. “They said the fight would be too hard, with too many obstacles in our way and too many special interests aligned against us. But we kept on trucking because we knew the people of our port communities needed relief.”
The first phase of the Clean Trucks Program immediately bans about 2,000 diesel trucks built before 1989, comprising 10 percent of the rigs that haul goods to and from the nation’s busiest port complex. The move is expected to remove 350 tons of harmful diesel emissions, which make up about 30 percent of the pollution generated by trucks each year.
Truck traffic dropped by up to one-third at some terminals on Wednesday morning, but operations gradually picked up by midafternoon, according to officials at both ports.
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L.A., Long Beach ports inaugurate new anti-smog plan
Trucks moving goods in and out of the complex must meet tougher antipollution laws; 2,000 dirty diesel big rigs are banned. Despite compliance checks, cargo moves smoothly.
By Louis Sahagun and Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 2, 2008
A landmark pollution-control program at the nation’s busiest port complex was launched Wednesday with an immediate ban on 2,000 of the region’s diesel-spewing big rigs and few reports of backups or unusual delays in the flow of cargo.
An estimated 95% of the trucks lining up for the starting 8 a.m. shift at the adjacent ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach had stickers on their windshields and doors indicating that they were in compliance with new rules restricting access to the gateway for 40% of the nation’s imported goods. Trucks without stickers were turned away.
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Truck Program Launched to Meet Clean Air Standards: Chip Yost reports
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