CMRA News

The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) continues to grow at a steady rate and has announced several new member companies that have recently joined. These include: Curtis Creek Recovery Systems, Laurel, Md.; Grace Pacific Corp., Honolulu, Hawaii; Emery Materials Inc., Perris, Calif.; Boralex Stratton Energy, Stratton, Maine and Cathedral City, Calif.; Tennessee Waste Inc., Nashville, Tenn.; City of Monrovia, Calif.; Debris Box, San Diego, Calif.; City of Irvine, Calif.; Sunrock Group Holdings Corp., Butner, N.C.; E.L. Harvey & Sons Inc., Westborough, Mass.; New West Gypsum Recycling, Langley, British Columbia, Canada; and New York Materials, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

"We are pleased to see so many companies becoming involved in the CMRA," says the association’s President Tom Roberts of Delta Recycling. "It shows that we have the support of the C&D industry and that our efforts to help that industry are paying off."

New Orleans will be the site of the 2004 C&D World event, the Annual Meeting of the Construction Materials Recycling Association, Lisle, Ill. The industry’s top leaders will prepare to gather for the 11th time in 2004.

The 2004 meeting will be held Jan. 24-28 at the Astor Crowne Plaza on the corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets in the French Quarter.

The program for the event is being planned, and abstracts for possible presentations are still being accepted. To propose a presentation idea, please contact William Turley at the CMRA office, (630) 548-4510 or turley@cdrecycling.org. For exhibition and registration information, contact Jeff Fenner, GIE Media Inc., (800) 456-0707.

The first results are in from the air, soil, and employee monitoring done at the Fort Ord, Calif., military facility where demolition and recycling of concrete military housing with lead-based paint on it took place. Initial results show generally favorable returns.

There were no problems with the amount of lead employees came into contact with, nor was there any detection of airborne lead from the crushing or the demolition, according to Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) executive director William Turley. There was a relatively high amount of lead on one spot on the crusher, but the rest of the wipe samples from the crusher were quite low, he reports. The entire results of all the testing will be published in the summer of 2003.