COMMENTARY: Any effort to regulate scrap metal facilities as hazardous waste treatment facilities threatens an important sector of California’s circular economy and hinder key environmental goals.
Any effort to regulate scrap metal facilities as hazardous waste treatment facilities threatens an important sector of California’s circular economy and hinder key environmental goals.Former Democratic state Sen. Bob Wieckowski of Fremont chaired the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy. He previously chaired the Senate Environmental Quality Committee and the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee.
California’s environmental regulatory agencies are among the world’s best. But occasionally the state’s environmental goals and policies are incompatible and leaders must consider the real-world impacts of their decisions.critical to achieving our environmental goals . Take, for example, the metal-recycling industry. California produces tons of scrap metal every single day, enough to fill our biggest stadiums. This includes end-of-life cars and trucks, old household appliances, motorcycles and bicycles, boats, metal furniture and BBQs – just about anything you can think of that is made of metal.
Without the metal-recycling industry, these millions of tons of scrap metal items would have nowhere to go. Having it pile up in streets and alleyways, in vacant lots and even dumped along roadsides and in fields would create an environmental disaster in its own right.
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