ISRI leery of role in overseeing payment system for e-cycling

Sep 09, 2005 | 12:39 PM | Paul Schaffer

The scrap industry has received an invitation to help supervise a nationally coordinated payment system for electronics recycling.

But it is not a party the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) appears eager to attend, judging by early feedback.

At a congressional subcommittee hearing Thursday, the Consumer Electronics Association said state legislatures, when writing laws funneling fees to recyclers, ought to have a "national third-party organization" available to harmonize and coordinate the details.....





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