By Robin Wiener, ISRI President
On Tuesday, Aug. 10, the U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The $1.2 trillion Act includes the funds needed to fix and upgrade our nation’s roads and bridges, freight and passenger railways, ports & waterways, broadband, and invest in environmentally sustainable energy. Importantly, it also includes the RECYCLE Act, of which ISRI (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries) was a lead architect.
Recycling is an essential part of the infrastructure of the United States. It is becoming more essential as we move as a nation – and a global community – towards a circular economy in an effort to preserve our planet’s finite natural resources and address climate change through reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
It is for this reason that ISRI supports these investments to rebuild our country’s aging infrastructure and provide for a modern 21st-century transportation system that will allow us to efficiently transport raw materials and feedstocks to manufacturers throughout the nation and the globe, using all modes of transportation, covering rail, surface, and waterways.
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